It’s the final weekend of the pre-Christmas portion of the Vancouver Island Junior Hockey League schedule, as the Port Alberni Bombers (12-17-2-0, 5th North) travel down Island tonight to face the Kraken (14-17-1-1, 4th North) at the Cowichan Lake Sports Arena tonight. The Bombers last played Friday night in Saanich, where they halted a three […]
The Bombers drew first blood just over a half a minute in, as Jaydon Merritt his team leading 19th of the season off an Evan Vasarhely set up. The Bombers doubled their lead on a scramble 8:33 in, as Grayson Erickson potted a loose puck on the power play, again from Evan Vasarhely. Sean Pander […]
It’s the final game on the schedule this weekend for the Port Alberni Bombers (11-17-2-0, 5th North) as they head down Island to take on the Saanich Predators (8-23-1-0, 5th South) at George Pearkes Arena for a 6:30pm puck drop. The Bombers last played Wednesday night at home, where they dropped their fourth straight, […]
The Storm opened the scoring on the power play eight minutes into the game, as Mitchell Finner put a quick release inside the post on Callum Tung, short-side. Assisting were Nolan Corrado and Kye Benoche. The Bombers replied to tie it three minutes later, as Jaydon Merritt one-timed home a feed from below the goal […]
It’s the final home game before the Christmas break for the Bombers (11-16-2-0) as they host the VIJHL North Division leading Campbell River Storm (24-2-2-0) at the Bomber Base tonight. Both teams have been idle since they played head-to-head Friday night in Gold River, where the Storm won their sixth straight while sending the […]
The Bombers fought hard and came back from three different deficits, but ran out of gas late in dropping a 6-3 decision to the Storm in Gold River Friday night. Alex Bend gave the Storm an early lead three minutes in, but the Bombers replied to tie it on Cam Maher’s first career goal 10 […]
The Port Alberni Bombers (11-15-2-0, 4th North) are back on the road tonight, as they take on the Campbell River Storm (23-2-2-0, 1st North) at the Gerry Morgan Memorial Centre in Gold River. The Bombers last played Wednesday night at the Bomber Base, where they fell 6-3 to the Oceanside Generals. The Storm were in […]
The Generals opened the scoring late in the first, after the Bombers had a trio of power play chances that they failed to capitalize on. An extended scramble and several opportunities were stopped by Callum Tung, but Nolan Kehoe roofed a loose puck from the right circle with 26 seconds to play in the first. […]
The Port Alberni Bombers (11-14-2-0) return to the Bomber Base tonight after three straight games on the road last weekend as they host their VIJHL North Division rivals, the Oceanside Generals (17-7-1-0) The Bombers enter tonight on a two game winning streak, most recently seeing action in Nanaimo on Sunday night, where they defeated the […]
The Port Alberni Bombers showed considerable character and resilience in winning their second straight VIJHL contest Sunday night in Nanaimo, 6-3 over the Buccaneers. The Bombers were playing their third game in as many days, and were playing with a short bench due to a quartet of suspensions from Saturday’s dust-up in Comox. They fell […]
