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Bombers lose game, win respect
Those guys in orange! The TWU Bomber’s hockey team ended their 2009-2010 campaign with a loss on Saturday night to the Uptown Mayhem in their semi-final match up at the George Preston Rec Centre. The Bomber’s campaign could be categorized as a “rebuilding success” that saw the team bring in some new, young, developing talent that finished with a surprising playoff berth and victory according to some.
Earlier in the season, commissioner of the CMCHL, Nathan Sather commented that the Bomber’s hockey team should “re-evaluate their team picked from tryouts” due to the lack of talent their team would display within the year. However, Sather must have been surprised as the Bombers not only finished with a 13-11-0 record, good enough for 48 points, finishing third in their division.
TWU’s other unofficial hockey team, the Renegades, finished one point ahead of the Bomber’s with a record of 11-10-3 for a successful campaign. However, in the slimmest of chances, both TWU teams ended up playing each other in the first round of the playoffs, turning up playoff emotions that saw the Renegades defeat the Bombers in last years final.
The Bomber’s went on to a shocking OT overtime goal from Rick Fairley to defeat the Renegades 4-3 that saw goaltender Brandon Mcilmoyle save 33 of 36 shots. Justin Vaughan had 2 assists on the night to help the Bombers into the semi-final match up against another archrival, the Uptown Mayhem.
The Mayhem dominated play all night, defeating the Bombers 9-3. The Bomber’s opened the scoring with goals from David Giesbrecht and Brad Dryburgh in the first period before surrendering the next 6 goals in the game. Justin Vaughan scored the final goal of the season for the Bombers and will look forward to a promising campaign in the upcoming 2010-2011 season.
This article, let alone this issue, is something of a disgrace to the standing reputation of the Mars’ Hill. Filled with unbalanced articles, basic spelling errors, and all around bad journalism. There is a certain expectation of professionalism that is necessary in something such as a student newspaper, no matter what time of the year it is. As a member of the Bombers, it saddens me to see such a sloppy errors in facts. Speak to one Bomber and they can point out that the game was played at Sportsplex, we ended the season with 43 points, the Mayhem scored 9 goals (not 6) and the final Goal was scored by Paul Hilborn. Also, on that note, Justin Vaughan will not be looking forward to a promising campaign next year as he is graduating.
I agree, Jamieson should really talk to anyone on the bombers if he’s writing a story on their season. Its pathetic journalism and sheer laziness on his part.
Hey. Let me just apologize for this article. I understand there are some major mistakes in this article and that does no justice to the Bombers at all. I accept your criticisms on this issue but would like one things to be kept in mind. I wrote every article for this section by myself and with that comes hours of writing, phone calls, and searching for quotes. I did contact a couple Bombers players for this article, but both declined to be commented and both said different things about the same game, which complicates matters. While this isn’t an excuse, having to cover every sporting event is impossible and help from the Bombers to write a story could be helpful.
While this article is indeed poorly written, bad journalism does not come as a result of one bad article. I covered every second game in the Mars Hill for the Bombers and by next September, the Bombers will be receiving their own coverage in a section of the newspaper (this is not a sympathy gesture).
As a result, understand that while this is poor job done by myself, one poor article should not be held high above numerous other good articles about the Bombers.
With much regret,
Jamieson