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Estero, Fla. – Chris Francis and Nick Robone scored and Micah Sanford of Las Vegas dealt an assist for the Arizona Outcasts who beat the ISCA Grizzlies of New Jersey 4-0 in their first NARCh Pro inline game here at the NARCh Nationals at Germain Arena.

Francis had one goal, one assist; Robone had one goal, one assist for Arizona.

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“I AM ON THE ICE TRAINING A FEW TIMES A WEEK HERE AND I SEE A DIFFERENT PICTURE OF HOCKEY IN LAS VEGAS. A LOT OF THE YOUNGER KIDS IN TOWN ARE WEARING L.A. KINGS JERSEYS, VERY PROUD OF THE NEW CHAMPIONS.

Micah Sanford, Chris Francis and Nick Robone of Las Vegas are off to the NARCh Nationals on Wednesday. The three will play for the Arizona Outcasts in NARCh Pro at the Germain Arena in Estero, Florida.

Micah and Chris have a 6 am flight Wednesday morning. Nick is coaching hockey in the New York area and will meet them in the evening.

“The Outcasts were short a few players and invited us to play,” said Chris. “We also have William Heinze with us. He is a (Las Vegas) Tour Rebels player as well.”

Here is the game schedule:

ARIZONA OUTCASTS
NARCH PRO

Thursday, July 24
vs ISCA Grizzlies 4:20 pm et
vs Alkali RPD, 7:20 pm et

Friday, July 25
vs Alkali Assault, 3:35 pm et
vs Detroit Infamous, 6:35 pm et

http://www.skatevegas.com/rancho_schedule.html

By Lee Samuels

Las Vegas – After almost 20 seasons ‘The Little House of Champions’ is going dark – no more roller hockey at the legendary Crystal Palace roller rink on North Rancho Drive.

It was Larry Sanford, rink owner and an 8-Time Las Vegas Roller Coach of the Year, who made the decision. After he examined the financial results of a spring session of house roller, he told sons Micah and Dave Sanford “…….here’s what we’re going to do.…”

The rink stays open.

The roller hockey program is over.

Micah said “we are staying open but we’re going to do a lot more public skates, private parties and school skates. There is plenty of demand for those activities,” he said.

“We had about 11 teams in house roller this past session. It seemed like a lot of teams, but it wasn’t. Totalled we had about 50 players who actually paid. We’ve been as high as over 300 players. The dropoff is dramatic.”

He continued “…there is a big rink expense of having roller hockey here. We have an expensive lighting system above the rink. If a puck takes out a light, it will cost $350 or more to replace. And usually we lose three of those lights each season. There are workers, officials, scoreboard operators – all of it adds up.

“The real reason I think about all of this happening is because a lot of players skate in ice and roller. That’s really expensive when it comes to playing travel hockey. A lot of the roller players are playing ice hockey now.”

Micah, who was just named the head coach of the AA Las Vegas Storm bantam team, said “…our Storm bantam ice hockey team will be very solid this season and there is a Bantam A team at the Ice Center as well. Some of those players used to play roller, but not anymore.”

It also means the end of the great, medal-winning Las Vegas Tour Rebels travel roller teams.

Or does it?

“I am going to gather up all of the Tour Rebels jerseys,” he said. “If we get enough players who want to play roller, maybe we do it. But we won’t be practicing at Crystal Palace.”

Neither will the UNLV roller team. Micah said the Rebels will likely relocate to Adam Stio’s Southern Nevada Sports Centre roller rink.

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Alex Hudson, who years ago played for the AAA Cal Senators 18u in Riverside, Ca., today signed with the ECHL Ft. Wayne Komets. Last winter Alex played for the ECHL Colorado Eagles.

Adam Hughesman, the top scorer for the ECHL Las Vegas Wranglers last winter, has signed with the ECHL Reading Royals. Adam had 21 goals, 24 assists for Las Vegas. The Wranglers are off this coming season and plan to return in 2015-16.

Gage Quinney of Las Vegas and the WHL Prince Albert Raiders will open their season against the Saskatoon Blades on home ice September 19, then go to Saskatoon on September 20.

Kenny Brooks of Las Vegas and Penn State begin their season Oct 10-11 with UConn coming into University Park, Pa. Penn State will go to the famous Madison Square Square in New York City for a ‘Frozen Apple’ series of games which begins against Cornell on November 29, then against Wisconsin on December 5-6.

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The Ticker – Sunday, July 20, 2014

After 11 days and hundreds of games, the AAU Olympic Games international roller tournament comes to a close today at the Las Vegas Convention Center. This was by far the longest roller tournament ever held in the city. The AAU game livesteams were the best we have seen in a long time.

Still no word where Adam Naglich, Chris Francis or Eddie Del Grosso will be playing this fall.

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