Fraser Valley takes gold in Men's Hockey

Zone 3 – Fraser Valley takes Gold in Men’s hockey

by Jeff Bromley

Cranbrook, BC – Lead by a four goal performance by Maple Ridge’s Connor Sanvido the Fraser Valley men’s hockey club took the gold medal at the BC Winter Games Sunday morning with a 9-2 drubbing of an injury-depleted Fraser River squad.

Fraser Valley opened the scoring seven minutes into the first period on a goal by Sam Harkness of Richmond. Fraser River countered less than a minute later with their first marker by Mike Cavezza of Burnaby. The teams traded goals by Steve Killy of Delta and Sanvido’s first of the game to finish the first period tied at two.

Fraser Valley burst open the floodgates in the second period with four unanswered goals by Joe Kornelsen of Abbotsford, Sanvido with two more and Mak Barden of Surrey to give the Fraser Valley squad a commanding 6-2 lead.

They would score three more by Sheldon Vannerus of Coquitlam, Colton Mackie of Surrey and Connor Sanvido with his fourth of the game.
Sanvido finished with four goals while Adam Rossignol of Cloverdale finished with three assists for the Fraser Valley squad.

Eric Williams of Langley stopped 8 of 10 shots he faced to get the win while Devin Nijjer of Delta faced a barrage of 38 shots, stopping 29.