Defenseman Nikolas Brouillard played his record 229th San Diego Gulls game in Tuesday\u2019s 5-2 victory at San Jose.<\/p>\n
More milestone games could soon be coming. The Gulls are 32-23-8-4, with 76 points, are currently in possession of the seventh and final American Hockey League Pacific Division playoff spot. They enter this weekend\u2019s series at Bakersfield needing five more points to clinch a playoff spot. The club has five regular-season games remaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the past 10 games, we knew it was going to be a hard race to the playoffs,\u201d said Brouillard, a 31-year-old Canadian who was on the Gulls\u2019 last playoff team in 2022. \u201cComing into this season, it was a big thing for us, making the playoffs. So, I feel like we\u2019ve played the playoff style the whole year. It\u2019s paying off. It\u2019s paying off for us right now, because we\u2019re hard to play against, and we\u2019re playing that gritty, gritty style of hockey that you know the playoffs need.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Gulls are 5-1 this season against Bakersfield, winning their most recent game 6-3 last Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re fighting for our lives,\u201d Gulls coach Matt McIlvane said. \u201cThat urgency has been a thing for us for the last month or so because we know how tight it is\u2026Every bit of this experience that we stack together is invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slumping Seals look to get on track<\/p>\n
The San Diego Seals have lost five straight games by a total of eight goals entering Sunday\u2019s crucial 4 p.m. game at the Georgia Swarm (10-5).<\/p>\n
With three games remaining, the Seals (6-9) are tied for 10th place in the National Lacrosse League standings. The top eight teams make the playoffs.<\/p>\n
Sunday\u2019s game will air nationally on ESPNU.<\/p>\n
Sockers await St. Louis<\/p>\n
The top-seeded San Diego Sockers will face the St. Louis Ambush next week when the MASL playoffs begin.<\/p>\n
The Sockers (16-6-2) visit St. Louis (13-5-6) on April 17 for Game 1 and return to Frontwave Arena two days later for Game 2. If the series is tied 1-1, the teams will play a shortened \u201cknockout game\u201d immediately following Game 2.<\/p>\n
The Sockers defeated St. Louis 5-4 in overtime on March 15.<\/p>\n
Strike Force heads to Tucson<\/p>\n
The San Diego Strike Force (1-1) of the Indoor Football League visits the Tucson Sugar Skulls (1-1) Saturday at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n
The Strike Force last played on March 28, losing 49-27 to the Arizona Rattlers.<\/p>\n
Mojo update<\/p>\n
The San Diego Mojo (10-10) of Major League Volleyball entered Thursday night\u2019s home match against the Indy Ignite riding a three-match winning streak.<\/p>\n
The Mojo host the Orlando Valkyries (10-11) at 6 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
Libero Shara Venegas was named MLV Player of the Week following her strong efforts in a win over Dallas and a pair of victories over Columbus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defenseman Nikolas Brouillard played his record 229th San Diego Gulls game in Tuesday\u2019s 5-2 victory at San Jose.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-260010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}