Citgo gets a relaxing 9-3 win to sweep.

Even with no Phatt (6 goals last week) in the lineup, the red Citgo team had no problem disposing of Mess, er Hess in two straight games.

Hess was missing Sullivan, Whitey, Gavin, and Kaneb. Citgo missing the Phat man, and Stockard. Advantage right away goes to Citgo.

Citgo jumped on the lifeless Hess team early. As the scoresheet shows, it got to 8-0 at some point while still in the first half of the game, and none of the refs were being accused of sucking yet.

You could see Hess players on the bench actually fighting with each other to decide who would throw the white towel onto the ice.

Paul Maffa won out, but he threw the towel high and wide and it landed outside the rink, so the game continued into the third period.

In his own words, it was refreshing for Brion O'Connor to be on the other side of a 9 goal shellacking.

"Usually I'm the guy letting in the nine goals," explained O'Connor. "So for me it was like looking at a mirror down the at other end in goal."

George Anderson pulled a groin and sat out the last half of the game. He tweaked it while backchecking he said. The team got a good chuckle out of that. He was last seen hobbling out of the locker room, looking for Mike Saia to give him a deep massage.

Mark Wood of Hess showed why he is a perennial Consolation Game MVP candidate.

"You mean today wasn't the Consolation Game?" asked Wood. "Damn, if I had known, I wouldn't have taken all those risky end to end rushes myself."

"Our goal was to score more than last week, and we did," noted George Howard. "So I consider today's game a moral victory for us."

So with the 9-3 win, Citgo advances to play Shell in the Title Game, while Hess advances to play Mobli in the all important Haliburton Consolation Game.

The rest of the Citgo team is now outscoring teammate Phatt Deskin in the playoffs 9-6, and the league email inbox is full, largely because of emails from Speed about his one goal this week.