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Scorpions Bitten by Bats but Melt the Ice

December 16, 2002 - Central Hockey League (CHL)
New Mexico Scorpions News Release


SCORPIONS ON THE RADIO – The Scorpions are teaming up this season with SportsRadio 610 The Sports Animal to bring you all of the Scorpions action on the radio. Mike Sheehan is in his first season as the Voice of the Scorpions. Both games this week are scheduled to air on SportsRadio 610 The Sports Animal. SCORPIONS HOCKEY TALK – The Scorpions' weekly radio talk show continues this Wednesday night with a special 90-minute edition from 5 to 6:30 p.m., live on location at the Corner Pocket, 9603 Lomas NE just west of Eubank. Scorpions Hockey Talk features new Scorpions coach Bill McDonald and the "Voice of the Scorpions" Mike Sheehan, along with special guests each week. SCORPIONS TICKETS AND EVENTS – Don't forget that the Scorpions home game originally scheduled for this Saturday, Dec. 21 against the Amarillo Gorillas has been moved up two days to this Thursday, Dec. 19. Faceoff is 7:05 p.m. and tickets marked with Saturday's date will be honored at the door. The Scorpions will invade Los Alamos this Sunday to help dedicate their new outdoor ice rink. The festivities begin at 3:30 p.m. and will be followed by an intrasquad scrimmage with the Scorpions players. The Scorpions' home game on Saturday, Dec. 28 against San Angelo is Bright Ideas Tote Bag Night, with the first 1,000 fans receiving a FREE Scorpions tote bag from Bright Ideas. SCORPIONS RECAP – AUSTIN 3, SCORPIONS 2 – The Scorpions struck just 2:30 into the game on a goal by Pete Brearley, but the Ice Bats scored three times in the second period and held on for a 3-2 win on Friday at Tingley Coliseum. Chris Richards scored a goal late in the middle stanza to get the Scorps back within one, but the teams battled to a scoreless third period and the Bats held on. Luciano Caravaggio made 32 saves in goal for the Scorps. SCORPIONS 5, INDIANAPOLIS 2 – Playing against the top penalty-killing team in the CHL, the Scorpions scored a pair of power play goals in a 40-second span en route to a 5-2 win over the Ice on Saturday. Chris Richards led the way once again with a four-point game on two goals and two assists while Arturs Kupaks recorded a goal and two helpers. Pete Brearley and Nate Mauer scored the other goals while Luciano Caravaggio had another strong performance with 34 saves. SCORPIONS MATCH-UPS – AMARILLO – The teams have split their two meetings so far, with the each team winning on home ice. Peter Ambroziak scored with 52.6 seconds left in the third period to give the Scorpions a 3-2 win on Nov. 30. The Gorillas have won four of their last five since that game, including a 3-2 win over Shreveport on Saturday. Henry Kuster leads Amarillo in scoring with 25 points (15g-10a), followed by Dorian Anneck (3g-14-17pts). The Gorillas are tied for 14th in team offense averaging 2.52 goals per game. However, they are a perfect 6-0 in shootouts. Goalie Steve Debus (7-4-0) is seventh in the league with a 2.43 GAA. EL PASO – El Paso escaped Tingley Coliseum with a 4-0 win on Dec. 7 to even up the season series at two games apiece with seven more contests to come. The Buzzards dropped a pair of games over the weekend to division-leading Odessa and Austin as well as a shootout loss to Amarillo. Jeff Scharf continues to lead the Buzzards in scoring with 24 points (10g-14a), followed by Russ Guzior with 20 points including a team-leading 12 goals. Goalie Blaine Russell is 1-2-1 since joining the Buzzards last week while Matt Carmichael is 5-12-1 with a 3.09 GAA and .901 save percentage. SCHEDULE FOR THE WEEK – Tuesday, Dec. 17 – Practice 10-11:30 a.m. Tingley Coliseum Wednesday, Dec. 18 – Practice 10-11:30 a.m. Tingley Coliseum Thursday, Dec. 19 – Practice 10-11 a.m. Tingley Coliseum Game vs. Amarillo – 7:05 p.m. Tingley Coliseum Friday, Dec. 20 – Game at El Paso – 7:10 p.m. El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso, Texas Saturday, Dec. 21 – OFF Sunday, Dec. 22 – Scorpions visit Los Alamos for Intrasquad Game – 3:30 p.m. As always, please contact Mike Sheehan (505-881-7825 (office), 505-269-8331 (cell) or email msheehan@scorpionshockey.com) to confirm time and site of practice. MAUER MAKING THE GRADE – Scorpions winger Nate Mauer has been a main contributor lately. He had a great assist on Chris Richards' goal against Austin on Friday, then scored one of his own on Saturday against Indianapolis. The 24 year-old native of Maplewood, Minnesota is averaging a point per game for his last five games (2g-3a). He has 10 points (4g-6a) on the season. CARAVAGGIO CATCHES FIRE – Scorpions goalie Luciano Caravaggio has seem his numbers improve during the past few weeks. Since allowing seven goals against Laredo on Nov. 26, the Toronto, Ontario native has allowed three goals or less in each of his past six starts as he has gotten the starting nod in seven consecutive games. Caravaggio is fifth in the CHL with 10 wins, tied for eighth with 18 games played and 12th with a 2.68 GAA. Caravaggio needs seven more wins to tie Tony Martino for the Scorpions all-time record with 54. AMBROZIAK INCHES HIGHER – Scorpions winger Peter Ambroziak, who recorded his 400th career point earlier in the season, continues to move up the charts in the franchise's career records. The 31 year-old native of Kanata, Ontario is now second on the Scorps' all-time points list with 229, just 12 behind leader Sylvain Naud. He is second with 110 goals (24 behind Naud), third with 119 assists and fourth with 178 games played. STINGERS – Chris Richards recorded his 100th point in a Scorpions uniform with an assist on Arturs Kupaks' first period goal on Saturday against Indianapolis... He went on to record four points in the game with two goals and two assists... Richards is back up to fourth in the league with 37 points, fifth with 17 goals and third with eight power play tallies... Pete Brearley is tied for third with four game-winning goals... Arturs Kupaks is tied for fifth among CHL defensemen with 21 points (5g-16a)... Following Friday's game in El Paso, the Scorpions will have a full week off before resuming play on Dec. 27 in Odessa, their longest respite of the season... That game kicks off a stretch of seven games in ten days after having played six games in the first 26 days of December... The Scorpions power play is back up to first on home ice at 30 percent (21-of-70), just one tenth of a percent ahead of Corpus Christi at 29.9 percent (20-of-67).



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