Rampage fall to Ice Demons 6-4

Short some key players and with a smaller than normal core of defencemen, the Rupert Rampage hit the road on Hallowen for a rematch from last team’s last home game against the Kitimat Ice Demons in the Demons’ home rink of

Tamitik.

The Demons opened the scoring early as Kory Finn beat Keith Movold just 97 seconds into the contest to give Kitimat the 1-0 lead. But for the rest of the period the two teams went back and forth until they exchanged goals with less than five minutes to play - Blaine Markwart scoring for Kitimat with 4:03 to play and Rob Millar scoring for the Rampage with 2:45 to go. That would give Kitimat a 2-1 lead after the first

frame.

But the second proved to be a different story due to the play of Markwart, who scored a natural hat-tick in the period, scoring with 16:04, 8:12 and 1:08 to play. Rupert didn’t seem to have answer and went without a goal in the period, giving Kitimat the 5-1 lead heading into the final 20-minutes of play.

The Rampage, determined to make a game of it, scored first in the period as Chris Brlecic found the back of the net with 12:37 to go. But the momentum from that goal was quickly extinguished as Ian Coleman scored just 36 seconds later. The Rampage were still not giving up though, despite losing two defencemen to injury over the course of the game, and Millar pulled the team back to within three with his second of the night with 9:34 to go and Trent Davis scored on a breakaway with just 13 seconds left to end the game on a high note. But it wouldn’t be enough as the buzzer sounded with a score of 6-4.

Netminder Keith Movold was a key part in keeping the game as close as it was as he stopped 35 of the 41 shots he faced, compared to the 27 shots faced by Demons goalie Brett Vilness.

With the loss the Rampage remain second in the west with eight points in seven games, two ahead of Smithers who have only played five games and two ahead of Hazelton who have also played seven games.

Colt Stava, who missed the game, is the team’s leading scorer and tied for the league’s leading scorer with 14 points - six goals and eight assists - followed by Millar who is tied with several players at 13 points - a league leading nine goals to go along with four assists.

The two teams will meet again this Saturday at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre, with the puck dropping at eight p.m.

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