Annual staff-student game wraps up R.I. Baker hockey academy season
COALDALE – A report card isn’t likely necessary for the four dozen or so members of R.I. Baker Middle School’s Hockey Academy, as they should pass with flying colours based on their on-ice exam.
They bested their elders 18-11 in the recent Baker Cup, for the first time in years, the school’s annual student-staff hockey game.
A new release from Palliser Regional Schools states as the final buzzer sounded their schoolmates rose to their feet in the stands at the Coaldale Sportsplex, and the entire student bench poured onto the ice to accept the hardware after the victory.
The contest – which featured a first-time goalie in the form of Principal Jason Prebushewski, referees dressed up as Baker Bears, and academy director/former NHLer Bruce Bell robbed on a breakaway – was a culmination of the students’ twice-a-week, on-ice sessions this year.