Ricky Olguin
Ms. Malouf.
Journalism
April, 25, 2010
Word Count: 507

Under water Hockey
The Houston Little monsters will try to close out their north Western Conference quarterfinal series on home water today, when they host the New York twilights for Game 7 at Toyota center.
The Houston little Monsters have won the last two games of this best-of-seven series to take a 3-2 lead and move within one victory of a berth in the conference semifinals. However, if New York can pick up a road win this afternoon, the clubs will meet for a decisive Game 8 Tuesday in Houston.
New York got two wins in the first three games of this set, but the Monsters outscored the fourth-seeded twilights by a combined 7-1 margin in Games 6 and 7.
The Monsters notched a 3-0 victory on home water in Game 5 and followed with a 4-1 decision Friday night at Houston. Bugs bunny and spider man scored a little more than a minute apart in the third period, leading the Monsters to the Game 6 triumph at the Nokia theater.
Sponge Bob square pants and Patrick star also scored for Houston, while harry potter made 30 saves to help the Monsters move one victory away from reaching the MONSTERS for a fourth straight season.
"It's a hard-fought game out there," potter said. "They're playing real good defense. It's tough to get anything easy; you've got to work hard for it. We tried their patience. Finally we found a few ways to get a puck on net and score some goals."
New York is the two-time defending north Western Conference champions and won THE LADY GAGA Cup two years ago before losing to Mexico City in seven games in last year's Cup Finals.
Pink Panther scored for the twilights, who were again without captain Jimmy Neutron. The forward has missed the last two contests with an upper-body injury suffered in Game 3 and will be a game-time decision for this afternoon's tilt. Chester Cheetah led new York with 55 points during the regular season and had a goal and an assist in this series before his injury.
The Annoying orange gave up three goals on 29 shots in Friday's loss.
"We're going to be a team that never quits. We're going to go in there and we'll be ready to go," said twilights head coach Edward Cullen about Game 7. "We feel like we can compete with anybody, and we'll go in there with that mindset."
New York is in the playoffs for the first time since 2000 and is trying to win its first post season series since 1990.
New York twilights are meeting in the post season for just the third time and first since Houston eliminated new York in seven games in the 1999 conference quarterfinals. New York also finished off Winnipeg in six games of the opening round of the 1997 playoffs.
The twilights and the little Monsters split four regular-season meetings this year.
The little Monsters had an excellent 25-10-6 record on home water this season, while the twilights were 21-15-5 as the guest this year.