SUPERIOR INTERNATIONAL JUNIOR HOCKEY LEAGUE
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Release Date: Friday, Nov. 22, 2013
Fort Frances, Dryden and Minnesota all skate to Friday victories
THUNDER BAY – A trio of Superior International Junior Hockey League games Friday saw Fort Frances, Dryden and Minnesota all come away victorious.
FORT FRANCES LAKERS 6 WISCONSIN WILDERNESS 1 – Lucas Debenedet tallied twice and added an assist while Lyndon Lipinski and Mason Meyer set-up three goals apiece to help lead the red-hot Fort Frances Lakers to the win at Ice for Kids Arena.
Brent Aiken, Cody Wickstrom, Hunter Leishman and Billy Grillo also connected for Fort Frances who have now gone an impressive 17-0-0-1 in their past 18 games picking up 35 of a possible 36 points in that span.
Alex Arnold had the lone goal for Wisconsin.
Jordan Cartney faced 22 shots in picking up the victory in net for the Lakers.
Griffin Strain started and suffered the loss for the Wilderness allowing four against on 18 shots while Luke Thompson stopped 16 of 18 in 35 and half minutes of relief.
DRYDEN ICE DOGS 4 THUNDER BAY NORTH STARS 3 – The visiting Ice Dogs stormed back from a three-goal deficit in the opening period to rally as edge the North Stars at the Fort William Gardens.
It was all Thunder Bay early as they got tallies from Kris Kellaway, Trevor Hynnes and Tim Cavar to go up 3-0 by the 11:13 mark of the opening stanza.
Special teams allowed Dryden to commence their comeback as Tyson Holder connected on the power play before the first frame was complete.
The score stayed that way until the latter stages on the middle session when the Ice Dogs erupted for three markers in 62 seconds to complete the rally.
After Joel Warkinton made it 3-2 at 15:30, Zachary Kercz tied it just 10 seconds later followed by Dane Feeney slamming home the eventual game-winner at 16:32.
Shots on goal favoured Thunder Bay 37-35 with Shayne Dietl picking up the win and Eric Mann the loss.
MINNESOTA IRON RANGERS 4 ENGLISH RIVER MINERS 3 (OT) – Jason Reynolds struck 1:27 into overtime to lift Minnesota past English River at Ear Falls Arena.
John Morales gave the Miners the lead with the only effort of the opening period.
Trevor Hoth then tallied twice in the second to put the Iron Rangers on top only to see Vincent Currao level the proceeding before the middle stanza was complete.
Currao’s second of the night game the home side the lead in the third, but Minnesota’s Tyler Tuneberg forced OT at 5:58 setting the stage for Reynold’s deciding marker.
Erick Majerle was the winning netminder while Greg Harney suffered the OT loss allowing his side to pick up a point.
The streaking Rangers have now gone 7-0-0-1 in their past eight games accumulating 15 out of a potential 16 points during their solid run.