The Ice Bats began their season with an exciting 3-2 shootout victory over the Bossier-Shreveport Mud Bugs at the noisy Chaparral Ice Arena last Saturday in front of a capacity crowd. Winning their first home game against the defending Northern Conference champs was nice, but keep in mind that the Mud Bugs were playing with a depleted roster due to immigration problems. Gotta keep those hockey-playing terrorists at bay. Still, we’ll take the win, especially after a painfully slow start last year.
This weekend finds the Bats playing in an unusual home-road-home series of games. The home games are tonight at 7:30pm vs. the Lubbock Cotton Kings and Sunday at 4pm hosting the Laredo Bucks.
On Saturday they travel to Corpus Christi to face the Rayz. If the recent occurrences of Rayz attacks continues, Saturday’s game could be a dangerous one indeed. Laredo and Corpus Christi are both divisional foes so this will be an important weekend for the bats to try and pick up at least four points, hopefully winning both at home. For tickets and more see their Web site.
This article appears in Chris Bell.