The Rail Yard Dawgs will have two home games over Thanksgiving week. Roanoke will host Macon on Wednesday night and Fayetteville on Friday night at the Berglund Center in Roanoke.
The Dawgs announced last week that rookie forward Cameron Clark has signed a PTO contract with the team, joining Roanoke from the FPHL’s Binghamton Black Bears. Additionally, defenseman C.J. Valerian has been activated from the injured reserve, and forward Joe Widmar has taken a call-up with the ECHL’s Bloomington Bison.
Clark has enjoyed a red-hot start to his first full professional season with the Black Bears, notching eight goals, seven assists, 16 penalty minutes, and a plus-two rating in 12 games played this year. The Daytona Beach, Florida native initially signed with Binghamton in late February at the conclusion of his senior collegiate season. Clark finished the regular season with the Black Bears and contributed all throughout the team’s run to the FPHL Commissioner’s Cup title – the five-foot-ten forward had four goals, an assist, and four penalty minutes in 10 regular season games, then added two goals and two penalty minutes in four appearances during the postseason.
Valerian is in his fourth season with the Dawgs, and had one assist and a plus-one rating in two games played against Pensacola at the start of November before missing Roanoke’s past three games. Valerian missed extended time last season after a long stint on the injured reserve, but appeared in 15 combined regular season and postseason games for Roanoke. In those 15 games played, Valerian tallied one goal, six assists, and a plus-three rating from the blue line.
Widmar is in his eighth professional season overall and joined Roanoke last in early November, dominating with three goals and six assists enroute to winning co-SPHL Player of the Week with linemate Nick Ford before getting the call from Bloomington.
The Rail Yard Dawgs had a 5-4-1 record after falling at Knoxville last Thursday. They were scheduled to play at Huntsville Friday.
