Chris Pulley out for the year.

Top defenseman Chris Pulley was in a car accident Saturday night. He has a broken right thigh bone along with broken left wrist and hand. he had surgery Saturday night and everything went well. He is expected to recover fully and be back next season. Get Well Soon Big Chris.

Fire win fourth straight 4-3 in OT.

The Fire picked up their fifth win of the season and four in a row with a 4 to 3 overtime win of the Unknowns. This sets up a winner takes first make up game with the Scorpions. We are still working to get this in. Chris Rowcliffe was solid again and Defensemen Whit Tyson and Chris Pulley did a masterful job shutting down the Unknowns attack. Matt Whitehead was brilliant getting the Game tying and the game winning goal.

First Star – Matt Whitehead – 3 goals, The Game Tying and Game Winning Goals.

Second Star – Brandon Stovall – 1 goal 2 assist, found a way to get it done.

Third Star – Martin Stovall – 1 assist, it was pretty and timely and to his brother for the first score of the game.

Fire 4, Unknowns 3 (Overtime)

Goals

Fire – Matt Whitehead (3), Brandon Stovall

Unknowns – Joe Jordan White, Parker Darnall, Gram Northern

Assists

Fire – Brandon Stovall (2), Martin Stovall

Unknowns – Northern, White

Fire win third straight with big win over Unknowns!

Chris Rowcliffe set the pace early in this big win for the Fire. The Fire beat the Jackson Unknowns 8-3 at Jackson. Brandon and Matt again played huge and Defense was smothering all day long.

First Star – Chris Rowcliffe – Great in Goal.

Second Star – Matt Whitehead – 3 goals 1 assist could have had many more.

Third Star – Brandon Stovall – 4 Goals 2 assist and the best assist of the year to his brother Martin.

Fire 8, Unknowns 3

Goals

Fire – Brandon Stovall (4), Matt Whitehead (3), Martin Stovall

Unknowns – Seth Weinert, Joe Jordan White, Ryan Easterling

Assists

Fire – Brandon Stovall (2), Andy Grooms, Nick Tyson, Chris Pulley, Whitehead, Martin Stovall

Unknowns – Easterling, Zach Floyd, Joseph Coley

Goalies

Fire – Chris Rowcliffe

Unknowns – Zach Foropolous

Fire win second straight! 8-5.

The Fire got their second straight win over the Lexington Radiation, 8-5. Brandon and Matt were both huge again and Whit Tyson was great in goal.

First Star – Brandon Stovall – 4 goals and solid all the way around.

Second Star – Matt Whitehead – 3 goals and 2 assist

Third Star – Martin Stovall – 2 assist

Fire 8, Radiation 5

Goals

Fire – Brandon Stovall (4), Matt Whithead (3), Nick Tyson

Radiation – Aaron Rowlett (3), Britt Nanney, Mikey Wilmont

Assists

Fire – Matt Whitehead (2), Martin Stovall (2)

Radiation – Mikey Wilmont

Goalies

Fire – Whitney Tyson

Radiation – Travis Henry

Fire turn things around with 6-4 win!

Things finally improved this weekend with the Fire pulling out a 6-4 victory over the Lexington Radiation. We played much better defense this weekend. One thing that needs to clear up is penalties, we had 23 minutes in penalties. Whitney Tyson had 14 and Brandon Stovall had 5 and Nick Tyson had 2 and Chris Pulley with 2. We are off next Saturday so we have time to work out more kinks.

Three Stars

First Star – Matt Whitehead – 3 goals and 1 assist returning to the old Matt, He defense and Penalty kill where great as well.

Second Star – Brandon Stovall – Brandon had the Gordie Howe hat-trick this weekend 1 goal, 1 assist and 5 for fighting. It was another solid effort from the big forward.

Third Star – Chris Pulley – Chris has 1 goal and played great defense all day long. Chris quit talking and started playing and good things happened. I hope to see this continue.

Fire 6, Radiation 4

Goals

Fire – Matt Whitehead (3), Chris Pulley, Nick Tyson, Brandon Stovall

Radiation – Mikey Wilmont (2), Charlie Lovins, Steven Wonsitler

Assists

Fire – Brandon Stovall, Andy Grooms, Whitehead

Goalies

Fire – Chris Rowlcliffe

Radiation – Matt Wonsitler

Fire lose second straight to Express 11-6

We played better just not good enough in dropping our second straight game. Still no three stars we are just not there yet after showing promise in week one.  We play this Saturday at 9 a.m. in Jackson. It is also our weekend to run the concession stand. Need parents to step up and help. Players will also be asked to help out.

Express 11, Fire 6

Goals

Express – Connor Reviere (4), Garrett York (3), Kevin Dubina (2), Will Gallemore (2)

Fire – Brandon Stovall (3), Matt Whitehead (2), Martin Stovall

Assists

Express – Gallemore (3),  Reviere (2), York (2),  Kevin Dubina, Keith Dubina, Evan Baker

Fire – Whitehead (3), Nick Tyson, Chase Willer, Martin Stovall

Goalies

Express – Katie Darnall

Fire – Chris Rowcliffe

Fire lose 13-4 to Express

The Fire played one of the worst games ever Saturday against the Express. Leaving men open in the middle and giving up soft goal after soft goal. They where never in the game despite the Express having a rookie goalie. They never got to him. The solid play from game one was no where to be found. They have to pick it up if they are to turn things around by Tuesday when they play the Express again in Jackson at 6:30 p.m. Good news is they work out some the kinks Sunday at practice and should have two of the missing links from Saturday back Tuesday. There are no Stars for this game. Two things of note Clint Struder and Martin Stovall got there first goals of the season.

Express 13, Fire 4

Goals

Express – Connor Reviere (4), Garrett York (3), Kevin Dubina (3), Will Gallemore (3)

Fire – Brandon Stovall, Clint Struder, Matt Whitehead, Martin Stovall

Assists

Express – Gallemore (3), Reviere (2), Kevin Dubina, Keith Dubina, Zeke Sudbury, York

Fire – Brandon Stovall, Whitehead

Goalies

Express – Luke Odom

Fire – Whitney Tyson

No Practice

Weather and Coach’s Illness will keep us from practicing tonight. I have strep and do not want any of my players getting it. See Schedule below for game time Saturday.
John Miller
Head Coach
Tennessee Fire

From the Commish…

To avoid confusion, let’s stay with our original schedule and play in Jackson this weekend. We will try and make up the games missed in Lexington last weekend in Lexington or exchange a Jackson game day. I would like to hear if anyone objects to playing makeup games in Lexington on a Sunday afternoon. I understand if that is a problem but we don’t have adequate lighting in Lexington to play at night, at least in my judgment. I would like to hear your thoughts.

Saturday, April 5, 2008 Jackson				concession-Unknowns
9:00	Wild	vs.	Bulldogs	Zeke	JJ
10:00	Pirates	vs.	Predators	Rusty	Connor
11:00	Road Runners	vs.	Fire Ants	Brady	Zeke
11:30	Fire Ants	vs.	Black Ice	Connor	Zeke
12:00	Road Runners	vs.	Black Ice	Brady	JJ
12:30	Fire	vs.	Express	James	Derek
1:30	Unknowns	vs.	Radiation	Derek	Rusty

Rusty

Games Canceled!

The games for today are canceled due to rain. No make-ups are scheduled yet. I will see you all at practice Thursday at 7:30pm.