Terance Giesbrecht got Vernon on the board first with Kristhopher Woodley picking up an assist. Thomas Rensleigh's and Dominic Jugovic's hard work along the boards payed off as Micheal Hartmann banged the puck in for the Renegades first goal of the spring tournament.The Thrashers however kept playing hard and their determination payed off as Tyler Slim scored at the end of the second and Esben Madsen scored a power play goal early in the third to give Vernon what seemed to be a commanding 3-1 lead. Midway threw the third period, a Vernon Thrasher player got injured going into the boards heavilly and their was a 4 minute break in the game. This break did wanders for Richmond as AJ McKenzie got the puck from a Kyle Campbell and Yong Mim Kim passing play and shot the puck top-shelf on the Vernon Goalie to pull the Renegades within one goal. Several seconds later Aydin Smith passed the puck to Dominic Jugovic who in turn passed the puck to Micheal Hartmann who then slid the puck to Thomas Rensleigh who scored five-hole on the Thrasher goalie.
With a voiceterous crowd, Vernon and Richmond put on a scating clinic in the final 7 minutes of the game as both team went on the offencive looking for the winning goal. Then with under 40 seconds left, Gaelen Mogan got the puck and went one on one with a much smaller Vernon defender. The difference in size may have frightened the Thrasher defencemen as he fell on his bottom and allowed Mogan to have a breakaway! Adam Maxnuk made a brilliant stick save on the breakway but couldn't corral the puck which went spinning into the right boards where Christopher Bergmann quickly scated to and passed to a fast-scating Jordan Cosulich whom then in turn passed the puck back to Mogan who shot glove side and this time Maxnuk couldn't save his Vernon team. The Renegade fans and bench went crazy as Richmond beat Vernon 4-3 in their opening tournament game. Ramsey Pretty was named player of the game and Christopher Bergmann was named M.V.P.
Later that day, Jordan Cosulich single-handidly dominated the Vancouver Thunderbird C-7's as his Renegades power-bombed Vancouver 8-4. With Team Points Leader Captain Matt Greenwood Vacationing in France and unavailable for the spring tournament,Cosulich became the Renegades leader. With increased ice-time he led the Renegades with two goals and two assists and was a brilliant scater all throughout the game. Yong Mim Kim had 2 goals, 1 assist, AJ McKenzie : 2 goals, Gaelen Mogan : 1 goal, 1 assist, Mike Blackmore 2 assists, Matthew Van Deventer : 2 assists, Micheal Hartmann : 1 goal and Kyle Cambell, Pavle Djuricanin, Bryan Louis and Goalie Ramsey Pretty had one assist each.
The Renegades actually had a 6-0 lead in this game but Vancouver led by Won Lee, Monroe Webb and Michael Elliot made things very interesting by scoring 4 goals in a span of two minutes in the middle of the third period to make the score 7-4 with 9n'half minutes remaining. Andrei Rus of the T-Birds scored 10 seconds after the fourth goal but the refs where out of position (as usual) and couldn't figure out if the puck went past the goal line or not. After a two minute talk the refs waved off the T-Birds goal which would have made the game a very- close 7-5 and would have given the T-Birds the chance to become the first Bantam "C" Non-Contact team ever to come back from a 6-0 Third Period Deficit. Unfortunatly the T-Birds couldn't make this Miracle happen as the refs (as usual) ruined their dreams.
Yong Min Kim was awarded Richmond's player of the game and Jordan Cosulich was the Renegades M.V.P.
The Renegades took their unbeaten tournament record of 2-0 against another unbeaten team: The Kamloops Nicola Sports Physio. Nicola scored on the power play but the Renegades quickly tied the game up. Off of a passing play from Dominic Jugovic and Thomas Rensleigh, Kyle Cambell scored the most weirdest Renegade goal ever. Just outside of the right-side of the blue-line, Kyle scooped the puck high up in the air. The puck flew in a direction staight at the Nicola Goalkeeper. When the puck landed, a few inches outside of the Nicola Goalie's Crease, it took a strange bounce and went straight through the Goalie's Five- Hole. The Renegades where thrilled but the Kamloops Nicola Goaltender Thomas Roach was stunned!
Instead of losing their game from such a funny goal, Kamloops Nicola got more focussed as their Centermen Brock Gunson wooed the crowd with his flashy stickhandling moves and text-book passing. After Gunson's goal and two assits, Kamloops Nicola had built up an commanding 5-1 lead! Jordan Cosulich scored with two seconds remaining in the second. Campbell and Aydin Smith picked up the assits.
The Renegades did not want to lose their unbeaten record so they dominated the third period with many chances. Cosulich scored what appeared to be a goal as the puck seemed to go into the net and go right through it! The refs couldn't see if the puck went in and so they waved off the sapposive goal.(After the game, at home Web Master JJ Froze The Video and the puck seemed to go through the outside net and through the inside bottom part of the net. Which all means it didn't go in and Richmond Minor Hockey Needs to replace their Nets Big Time!! Their still playing with the same nets that I played with when I was in Atom!!) A few Minutes later Campbell fead Christopher Bergmann the puck and he scored to make the score 5 to 3 but that was as far as the Renegades could get. Goalie Thomas Roach stood on his head and helped his Nicola team defeat Richmond 5-3. On a funny note, Bergmann and Jugovic bodychecked a Nicola player into the boards near the end of the game. Only problem was that there was a referee behind the player! The referee needless to say got sandwiched between the players and got hurt pretty bad as he lay on the ice for more than a minute!!Ouch! Kyle Campbell's goal and two assists led all Renegades in the game and thusfore earned him game-M.V.P. honours.
The Renegades finished up their round-robin spring tournament play with a game agianst another Kamloops team. Gaelen Mogan started things off with his 3rd. goal of the tournament but Chris Cederfeldt of the General Grants tied the game up. Midway through the first Cosulich passed the puck to Bergmann who let a lethal wrist-shot fly. Kamloops goalie Stephan Connor couldn't do anything about it as the puck soared into the net. With 48.1 seconds remaining in the first Mogan scored again to give the Renegades a commanding 3-1 lead in what turned out to be the winning goal. Gaylene Smith's goal with 0 seconds remaing in the first made it a close 3-2 game as the General Grants who had a 1-2 record going into the game needed a win to survive and get into the playoffs. The Renegades, who with a loss to the Grants would have actually been eliminated, where having none of that sort of monkey buisness. Kyle Campbell, who has been playing his best hockey of the year, passed the puck to Cosulich who scored to give the Renegades a 4-2 lead early in the second period. Yong Mim Jimmy Kim finshed off the Grants from Kamploos with a Pat Lafountaine like breakway goal in the middle of the second period. After Jimmy's goal, Renegade Coaches Bob Blackmore and Charlie Campbell told the team to work hard on it's defence and make shure nothing like the Vancouver T-Bird Game happens ever again. The Renegades listened up as they played solid defencively for the rest of the game. The Renegades ended Kamloops General Grants season and continued theirs by winning the game 5-2.
The Richmond Renegades finished the round-robin portion of the spring tournament seeded third and will face No.1 seeded Revelstoke Black Bears in the semi-finals on Sunday. The winner of the game will meet the winner of the other semi-final game between the No.2 Seeded Kamloops Nicola Sports Physio and the No.4 seeded Vernon Thrashers. Go Blue Go !!!!
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