The streak is over. The Portage College Voyageurs have won their first hockey game of the regular season after 11-straight losses going back to a pre-season game on September 30.
The Voyageurs beat the Augustana Vikings on Saturday night in Camrose, winning 2-1 in a game that needed a few minutes of overtime to determine a winner. Mikal Chalifoux scored the game-winner for the Voyageurs. Portage' netminder Alex Brousseau kept his team in the game, facing 41 shots on the night. The Portage offence managed only 24 shots on the Augustana net.
Saturday night's win came in the second game of the weekend for the two teams. In the Friday night tilt at Lac La Biche's Bold Center, the Vikings won 5-3.
Ironically, it was the Augustana team that was the last win for the Voyageurs in that September pre-season game.
Take a break
The Voyageur and the rest of the seven teams in the Alberta Colleges Athletics Conference will not play until the new year, takikng a few weeks off the ice for the Christmas break. The Voyageurs' next games — and a chance to build a win streak — are January 12 and 13 against Briercrest College. Both of those game are played in Caronport, Saskatchewan. The next Voyageurs' home game is Friday, January 26 against the Red Deer Polytechnic Kings.
Going int the Christmas break, the Voyageurs remain at the bottom of the ACAC with three points on the season. The Voyageurs are seven points back of sixth-place Concordia, 17 points behind fourth-place Augustana and 24 points back of the league-leading NAIT Ooks.
