By Casey Wedge Day 1 - Early Evening Update As the day has progressed there’s been foot traffic going every which way in and around the rink. A few teams came in fired up, hot, and ready to go this morning in the Peewee division going 2-0 to start the tourney. Making the trip from BC, the WC Warriors 98s proved they’re a top competitor in their first two games initially defeating the Revision Devil Dogs 6-3 and then beating up 2K Gong Show with a final score of 7-1. Similarly, NCR Tour
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By Casey Wedge Good Morning from Sunny SoCal It’s only 9:00AM and it’s already a beautiful, sunny, 65° day here at the Irvine Inline rink. With a total of 96 teams hailing from all throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, and British Columbia competing in this weekends event the rinks filling up quickly this morning and we’re expecting a packed house all weekend.Peewee games are kick starting the first day of the tournament playing for the majority of the morning followed up by Bantam
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We are fielding many questions about the Nor Cal Cup Championships. As anyone that has dealt with NARCh or Nor Cal Cup for any period of time will tell you, we are strict with our rules.Something happened this year that we didn’t expect. We had 5 Nor Cal Cup Tournaments leading up to the Nor Cal Cup Championships. Unfortunately we had to cancel two events because the majority of teams chose to play in the same events, the other three. Teams did sign up for the two tournaments we ha
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Another solid weekend of NARCh Hockey in the books as we make our only trip to Pennsylvania in the 2013. It was a great time and we saw a ton of great hockey. I’m excited to put this video highlight together, as I was lucky to capture some great moments throughout the event. It’s always nice seeing my friends here in the East, sharing a few laughs and talking shop. Almost everyone is pumped for Toronto and planning on attending the FINALS that are creeping up on us quickly about 10
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By Jeremy Ellis We are in the final game of the evening, the mens division match-up of the Montreal Alkali Ducks and the Scorchers. It is approaching hour 18 of our day here, and while somewhat weary, it has been easy to stay sharp with the quality of today's hockey. One division, Atoms, was wrapped up in one day here at the rink. We will recap all of the divisions on a later blog, but nothing beats the first championship game going to overtime! That one was a microcosm of the day as there
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We are definitely in the heart of our travel season. Last week we were on Hawaiian time, 6 hours different then where we are now in Pennsylvania. Next week we’re back on Cali time for our largest regional event of the year in Irvine where we’ll cram about 225 games into 3 days.I was looking forward to coming to this event for multiple reasons. Most of the teams playing in this qualifier will be making the trip up to Canada for the FINALS, so I wanted to see them play and make sure they
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