The Texas Roadrunners grabbed the top spot in the NA3HL this weekend with a three game sweep of the Atlanta Capitals at home in College Station Texas. The runners who are 12-1-0-0 have scored an amazing 118 goals while allowing their opponents only 13 goals against. The team is led by Wyatt Mineheine, Lucas Dyer, Joey Izzo and Will Heskett. Mineheine leads all scoring in the NA3HL with 31 goals and 23 assists for 54 points. Dyer is second with 21g and 27A for 48 points followed by Izzo and Heskett with 36 and 30 points respectively.
Friday Final:
Atlanta 1 @ Texas R 13 – The Atlanta Capitals traveled west to Texas to take on the Roadrunners. The Roadrunners would follow suit of their name with how fast they started scoring. Less than two minutes into the game William Heskett scored for the Roadrunners, assisted by Jayden Hitt, and Jacob Brown. Soon after they would score again on the power play, Joseph Izzo gets the goal assisted by Lucas Dyer and Wyatt Mineheine. Lucas Dyer would then score one of his own. Follow by Wyatt Mineheine getting his own as well, assisted by William Heskett and Logan Diskey. Quickly after Kristopher Pope would put one in making the score 5-0. Finally the Capitals would answer with a power play goal from Riley Morton, Gavin Jones and Hatcher Horton with the assist. But before the end of the period Wyatt Mineheine would score again this time on a short handed goal, assisted by William Heskett. To start the second period Wyatt Mineheine would score again for the hat trick. Just 20 seconds later Michael Garrett would score for the Roadrunners, Alex McMillan with the assist. Kristopher Pope would then score his second of the game, Jayden Hitt and Nathan Pickett with the assist. William Heskett would also score again with an assist from Wyatt Mineheine. Wyatt Mineheine would then score again for his fourth of the game. Quinn Mayo would score an unassisted goal before the end of the second period. The only goal scored in the final period was scored by Lucas Dyer, Wyatt Mineheine and Joseph Izzo with the assist. The Roadrunners beat the Capitals 13-1.
Saturday Final:
Atlanta 0 @ Texas R 13 – The Atlanta Capitals were again in Texas to take on the Roadrunners for game two of the three game set. The Roadrunners would score early with a short handed goal from Lucas Dyer, Joseph Izzo and Wyatt Mineheine. They wouldn’t score again until the second period when they scored on a short handed goal from Joseph Izzo, William Heskett with the assist. William Heskett would then score his own goal, assisted by Alex Matysiak. Wyatt Mineheine would then score assisted by Joseph Izzo and Jacob Brown. Kristopher Pope would score as well, Cayson Ash- Hendricks with the assist. William Heskett would score his second being assisted by Michael Garrett and Jacob Brown. Wyatt Mineheine would score an unassisted goal. Then with just 9 seconds left in the period he would score his hat trick, Joseph Izzo and Lucas Dyer with the assist. To start the final period the Roadrunners would score again with an unassisted goal from Michael Garrett. Ronin Draffan would then score being assisted by Quinn Mayo. Wyatt Mineheine would score his fourth of the game, assisted by Vincent Campbell and Lucas Dyer. William Heskett would get his hat trick, Logan Diskey picking up the assist. Finally Kristopher Pope would get his second for the final goal of the game, Ronin Draffan with the assist. The Roadrunners run right past Capitals 13-0.
Sunday Final:
Atlanta 0 @ Texas R 13 – The Atlanta Capitals faced off against the 12-1 Texas Roadrunners in the final game of the weekend. The game started with 2 goals in the first period from the Roadrunners. The first from Lucas Dyer, Wyatt Mineheine and Joseph Izzo with the assist. The second from Logan Diskey being assisted by William Heskett and Jacob Brown. The second period was much more productive for the Roadrunners starting with a goal from Joseph Izzo assisted by Lucas Dyer and Wyatt Mineheine. Logan Diskey then scored again assisted by Lucas Dyer and Jospeh Izzo. Jayden Hitt then scored an unassisted goal. Wyatt Mineheine would get on the board being assisted by William Heskett. To end the second period Jayden Hitt would score again, this time assisted by Kristopher Pope. The final period started with back to back goals from Lucas Dyer, Michael Garrett and Wyatt Mineheine each getting one assist. Michael Garrett would score being assisted by Lucas Dyer and Cayson Ash-Hendricks. Alex McMillan would score, assisted by Wyatt Mineheine. Lucas Dyer would score his fourth of the game. Finally the final goal of the game was scored by Kristoher Pope, Ronin Draffan getting the assist. The Roadrunners win 13-0.
“The guys have been playing well for the most part in the early going but there are times we have to reel them in and get back to systematic hockey. Our schedule will have a very tough nine games coming up before the Thanksgiving Break as well as the weekend before the showcase as well as the Showcase schedule itself. This is where guys will really be tested and see what it will take to compete for a Championship in March. Our goaltending has been stellar and our offence has been on fire but the true test will be to keep things in perspective going forward.” Stated head Coach Mike Beavis.
On a side note:
Beavis is rapidly approaching a coaching milestone of 400 wins and is currently at 396 in his junior career. We will keep an eye on this very carefully over the next few weeks. Beavis began coaching juniors in 1993 with the Springfield Junior Indians of the former Northeastern Junior B league and has coached in over six junior leagues in North America. “I never really paid attention to stats over the years but my son brought it up a few years ago when I reached 300 and I guess I never thought about 400 as it seemed to far to reach. It would be nice to hit that mark as I do have a few old friends still in the game that have reached it over the past couple seasons. Let’s see what happens as long as i can help move these guys on the rest doesn’t matter.” Added Beavis
The Roadrunners will be back at work this week preparing to travel to Monroe Louisiana to take on the Bayou State Rougarou in a three game set Friday, Saturday and Sunday this week. The Rougarou are currently in 5th place with a 1-7-0-0 record.