El Paso End Emotional Weekend With a 10-0 Win
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The El Paso Rhinos registered another double-digit win, shutting out the Dallas Hawks in the last home game of 2007, 10-0.
Nine different Rhinos scored goals in the win, giving El Paso a 25-0-2 record and 52 points. The Rhinos have opened up an eight-point lead on second place Tulsa in the Western States Hockey League’s Mid-West Division, and they continue to polish a young but growing legacy.
Though there aren’t nearly as many individual Rhinos at the top of the Western States Hockey League’s leading scorers list as there were this time last year, last season’s team already had five losses through 27 games. El Paso has taken at least a point from every game they’ve played thus far this season.
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Pink Onslaught Proves Too Much for Hawks
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On a night when real men wore pink, the El Paso Rhinos earned their 50th points of the season in fine fashion, rocking the Dallas Hawks, 14-1, to improve to 24-0-2 on the season.
The Rhinos auctioned off their special pink jerseys at the end of the game to benefit the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. As well as they did Saturday night, the players may have wanted to keep them hanging in their lockers.
There were many notable statistics from the game. El Paso outshot the Hawks, 75-5. The Rhinos went 4-for-5 on the power play to improve their success rate to over 25 percent.
Individually, for the second straight night Hayden Kowalski started and ended the scoring, and for the third time in four games the second-year winger out of Highlands Ranch, CO, notched a hat trick; although, Saturday night, Kowalski wasn’t alone. Marcus Wilhite also got a hat trick with two goals in the first and one in the second.
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El Paso Ends the San Antonio Series With a 7-4 win
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El Paso took all six points from its three games this weekend, improving to 22-0-2 with 46 points to keep its lead in the Mid-West Division, beating the San Antonio Diablos (17-10-3, 37 points, third place), 7-4, at the Sierra Providence Events Center Sunday.
Arthur Hollinger picked up his 13th win between the pipes asEl Paso ’s defense was notably better than in the Rhinos two prior wins in the series. El Paso had to erase a two-goal, then a three-goal deficit Friday and Saturday, respectively. But the Rhinos never trailed Sunday, grabbing their first early lead of the series on Costi Hinn’s seeing-eye shot at 3:30 of the first period.
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El Paso Comes From Behind to win 6-4
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Hayden Kowalski scored the hat trick with a goal in each period and, for the second straight game, the El Paso Rhinos found a way back to win, as the Rhinos came from behind to beat the San Antonio Diablos, 6-4, staying ahead ofTulsa in the Mid-West Division.
The Rampage (20-7-2, 42 points) are nipping at El Paso ’s heels, but the Rhinos (21-0-2, 44 points) have six games in hand.
As they did Friday, the Diablos grabbed the initial lead. Edgar Soto beat El Paso goaltender Arthur Hollinger at 6:28 of the first, unassisted, to open the scoring.
Kowalski equalized at 11:11, assisted by Austin Balko and Zach Kohn, and this turned into a theme – pieces of the line would account for all six Rhinos goals on the evening.
However, Soto grabbed the lead for San Antonio at 11:48 of the first period, followed by Malcolm Richards just 1:21 into the second, followed by Peter Cardasis on the power play at 8:05 of the second, and for the first time this season, the Rhinos trailed their opponents by three goals, 4-1.
Again, though, El Paso answered the challenge, doing so in grand fashion.
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Rhinos Win in Wild Shootout, 6-5
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The El Paso Rhinos know the rest of the Western States Hockey League is gunning for them. Upstarts in just their second season, head coach Cory Herman’s Rhinos not only won the Mid-West Division title in the team’s first year, they went all the way to the Silver Cup tournament – Junior B hockey’s national championship – assuring the team of being the gunfighter everyone wanted to challenge when the league moved up to Junior A this season.
Sure enough, the San Antonio Diablos have come to El Paso looking to challenge the Mid-West Division’s top gun. Seeing its first action in three weeks, El Paso was a little slow on the draw and off on its aim facing the Diablos. Fortunately for the Rhinos, they got six shots – and six goals – as goaltender Arthur Hollinger finally nailed the coffin shut in game one after Marcus Wilhite’s goal in shootout started the Diablos on their journey to Boot Hill.
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El Paso Dominates Lafayette, 10-0
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Eight different Rhinos scored and El Paso notched four power play goals en route to a 10-0 shutout of the Lafayette Cajun Catahoulas.
The Rhinos outshot the visitors, 71-11, in a game that was never in doubt for the hosts.
Hayden Kowalski started the scoring just 1:52 into the game, ripping his wrister top shelf past Lafayette goaltender Brenden Parkyn.
Eric LaBounty made it 2-0 on a pass from Kevin Coyne at 6:36 of the first, followed by Bill Krueger’s first power play strike on a pass from Marcus Wilhite and Gabriel Hernandez at 10:37.
The second period got no better for the Cajun Catahoulas, as Zach Goller started the scoring at 3:22 on passes from Jacob Burch and Bo Hernandez.
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El Paso beat Cajun, 3-2
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The El Paso Rhinos ran their league-best record to 18-0-2, upending the Lafayette Cajun Catahoulas, 3-2, in the Sierra Providence Events Center Saturday night.
Marcus Wilhite scored one goal and assisted on another to earn First Star of the Game honors, though Lafayette goaltender Brenden Parkyn earned Third Star, saving 53 of 56 Rhinos shots.
The home side could not bust through Parkyn’s defense, and the Catahoulas played some solid “D” of their own, challenging the Rhinos through the latter stages of the game.
But El Paso would not be denied, as Wilhite started the scoring just 3:36 into the first period, taking a feed from Nick Gorup and beating Parkyn low.
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Rhinos Romp, 9-3
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A solid crowd was on hand to watch the strong performance turned in by the home team, taking care of business against the last place franchise in the Mid-West Division, who had just stepped off the bus after an 18-hour bus trip from Lafayette, LA.
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