FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Penticton, BC – November 24, 2010 The Merritt Centennials played their fifth game in seven days in a 4-2 loss to the Penticton Vees Wednesday night at the South Okanagan Events Centre. Steve Tresierra with a shorthanded goal, and Jeff Jones scored for the Centennials while Billy Marshall picked up an assist […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Merritt, BC – November 22, 2010 The Merritt Centennials are pleased to announce that in the spirit of Merritt's 8th Annual Country Christmas celebrations, the organization will be giving out a limited number of free tickets to the game on Friday, November 26th during the Santa Claus Light-Up Parade. “With the parade […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Port Alberni, BC – November 21, 2010The Merritt Centennials put an end to a grueling stretch of four games in five days with a 3-2 loss at the Weyerhauser Arena against the Alberni Valley Bulldogs on Sunday afteroon.Billy Marshall and Steve Tresierra scored for the Cents while Jeff Jones, Max Vallis and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Victoria, BC – November 20, 2010 The Merritt Centennials were unable to build on a 3-0 win in Nanaimo on Friday and fell 6-1 to the Victoria Grizzlies Saturday at Bear Mountain Arena. Max Vallis scored the lone goal for the Cents on a power play with Kameran Crawford and Jeff Jones […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENanaimo, BC – November 19, 2010The Merritt Centennials put an end to their two game losing streak in a big way with a 3-0 shutout win over the Nanaimo Clippers Friday night at the Frank Crane Arena.Max Vallis and Chad Brears each had a goal and an assist in the win while Jeff […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Duncan, BC – November 17, 2010 The Merritt Centennials opened a stretch of five straight road games Wednesday night in Cowichan Valley with a 2-1 loss to the Capitals. Stephen Wall scored the lone goal for the Cents, with assists to Dustin Lebrun and Jakob Reichert. Tyler Jones, with the winner, and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Burnaby, BC – November 18th, 2010 The British Columbia Hockey League welcomes the Malmo Redhawks junior team from Malmo, Sweden for a five-city tour that beginning on December 31st in Powell River and concluding in Cowichan Valley on January 5th. Malmo competes in Sweden?s J20 SuperElit League, which is the highest-level junior […]

Merritt, BC – November 13, 2010 The Merritt Centennials saw their three game winning streak end with a hard-fought 3-2 loss to Penticton Saturday at the Nicola Valley Memorial Arena.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Merritt, BC – November 13, 2010 The Merritt Centennials announced today that they have traded the junior 'A' rights for goaltender Cole Holowenko to the Westside Warriors of the BCHL for future considerations. The Penticton product appeared in 31 games with the Cents last season, posting a 9-14-0-0 record with a 5.42 […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Merritt, BC – November 10, 2010 The Merritt Centennials are proud to announce that November 2010 marks the first annual “Movember” fundraiser for the team. “Movember” is an international movement where men grow mustaches to raise awareness for men?s health issues, most notably Prostate Cancer. As part of “Movember”, all of the […]