AAA Stars top Argos but fall to Swift Current in weekend games
It was the proverbial one step forward, two steps back for the Battlefords AAA Stars this weekend.
On Saturday, they took down the last-place Notre Dame Argos 7-2, thanks to a four-goal and two-assist performance from Adam Beckman. They were outshot in the game 39-30, including 19-5 in the second, but it didn’t matter because of the offensive explosion.
On Sunday, however, defence was the difference, as the Stars lost 7-4 to the Swift Current Legionnaires.
“Last night was a great game. We had lots of offence. Tonight, we made too mistakes,” Stars head coach Norm Johnston said following Sunday’s loss, the team’s seventh loss in nine January games so far. “We were telling the kids back up, back up, because they come so hard [but] we got caught wth too many 2-on-1’s. Too many 3-on-2’s. They outnumbered us through the neutral zone and into the offensive zone and that’s what they do.