Alex may have best goalie in state

Roadblock pitches another shutout

By Tom Obert
Cub Reporter
Danielle Justice stopped 30 shots last night as the Cards beat the Brainerd Warriors in Brainerd by the score of 5 - 0. The win improves the Cards overall record to 13-1-2 and, we believe, gives Danielle the best record among all goalies in the state. Her save percentage now is almost .970, as she has given up only 12 goals in the team's 16 games. Next up is at Detroit Lakes tomorrow afternoon, and it appears that at least three Diehard Fans couples will be making the trip up Highway 10 for the game.

The Annens had planned on making the trip to Brainerd last night but were fogged out. They did go to the Sartell game last Thursday, where the cub reporter-in-training got an extended visit with Card coach Mitch Loch. Unfortunately, as a relatively new stringer, he did not advise the coach about the possibility of being "on the record." But there was some inforfmation we can share that I don't believe will violate the reporter-coach privilege . . .

Coach Loch believes we will still have a very competitive team next year despite the loss of this year's senior class - there are lots of junior high kids contributing now and there are two goalies coming up he likes. He attributes the young crop of upcoming players to the senior class role models - this is how one starts a tradition, right? He likes being an unknown team in the metro area at tournament time, and he likes scheduling tough teams from outstate Minnesota for team development purposes. He confirmed what we thought - that the ice was "slushy" at the state tournament last year, to our team's detriment. And Bob asked Mitch to name his favorite game as the coach - he agreed with us, the 2 -1, double overtime, win over Totino-Grace in the section finals two years ago when the Toft twins, on their 18th birthday, combined to score both goals, and both teams had absolutely nothing left in their tanks at the end of the game.