By: Omran Wahidy
The Riggers put an end to training camp with an 11-10 win over the Saskatchewan Rush to finish the pre-season 3-0.
Brayden Mayea scored a team-leading four goals, Noah Manning scored the game-winning-goal and Aden Walsh was solid in the pipes for four quarters.
STAT PACK:
One goal – Kyle Pepper, Carter Cook, Jack Follows, Mathieu Gautier, Noah Manning
Two goals – Tanner Cook
Four Goals: Brayden Mayea
Robert Church opened up the scoring five minutes into the first quarter to give the Rush a 1-0 lead.
Pepper responded with a heater on transition that got past Frank Scigliano to even it up at one.
A couple minutes later, Josh Zawada scored to give the Rush the lead.
Mayea tied it up with 5:27 remaining in the first off a good drive to the net for the goal. On the following offensive play, Tanner Cook rifled home a beauty to give the Riggers a 3-2 lead.
Church scored a couple more goals for the hattrick to give the Rush a 4-3 lead at the end of the first.
Carter Cook opened up the scoring for the Riggers with a beautiful goal in transition for his first of the game.
The Rush scored off the hands of Ryan Keenan to give them the lead at 5-4.
Follows scored a breakaway goal off a nice play in transition to tie it up for the Roughnecks. The Ontario native turned on the jets to score his first of the evening.
Tanner Cook scored his second of the night off a gritty rebound and tucked it up and over Scigliano for a 6-5 lead at half.
Mayea opened up the scoring with his second of the game in the third quarter. The second year Rigger’s snipe went through the wickets of Scigliano to extend the lead by two.
Church’s fourth goal of the game cut the lead to 7-6 for the Roughnecks.
Brock Haley would follow that up for the Rush to tie it up at seven a piece.
Mayea answered back with his third of the night with a minute left in the third quarter to take the lead by one going into the final frame.
Mathieu Gautier scored a beauty off a rebound to put the Riggers up 9-7 a few minutes into the fourth.
The Rush scored a couple of goals to even it up at nine.
Mayea continued his hot hand with his fourth of the night, beating Scigliano clean to take the lead.
The back and forth affair continued with Church scoring his fifth of the game, but Noah manning iced it for the Riggers with the game-winning-goal to win it 11-10 for the Roughnecks.
UP NEXT:
The Calgary Roughnecks are on the road take on the Saskatchewan Rush on Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. to open up our first game of the regular season.
For fans that want to party with the Roughnecks all winter long, season tickets are on sale now at www.CalgaryRoughnecks.com/tickets
