Blog from the Pod — Bantams return from northern road trip with bronze
By The Nelson Daily Sports
A glitch in the network held up the final installment of the Tyler Podgorenko blog from Smithers, site of the B.C. Hockey Tier III Bantam Rep Championships.
The West Kootenay rep, Nelson Leafs, managed to rebound from a pair of tough losses — including a setback in the semi final — to edge Revelstoke in the bronze medal final.
Nelson defenceman Tyler Podgrenko has one last blog on what happened last week in Smithers.
(Thursday) we again had to wake up at 8 a.m. for our final game as a team and for some of us our last game in Bantams.
The game was for Bronze and we were playing the Revelstoke Grizzlies whom we have played three times before in exhibition and tournament (play).
The game began very slow and by the end of the first we were winning 1-0. The game then started to rise and both teams began to play hard and before you knew it we were up 3-2 with some great goals from our forwards.
In the third the game began to be a rough one and Revelstoke was starting to get penalty after penalty and began to play with no intention to win.
We were up 4-3 and the clock began to count down and we ended up winning 4-3 taking home the bronze.
Right after the game our parents were eager to get home and we began our long journey home. After nine hours of driving we stopped in Kamloops for the night and stayed in the Thompson Hotel on the main street.
Waking up in the morning after a rough night with little sleep was tough after many players were sick from receiving the flu that night and some with colds.
In the morning we all left the hotel for our last chunk of traveling to take on and by 2:30 p.m. the majority of the team was back home in Nelson.
Even though not reaching our ultimate goal of winning the provincials i believe that we all gained much knowledge on what it takes,and also many memories.
As a team we all improved tremendously and also individually.
