SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. – Tate Rigel scored three goals, Tyson Carter had a goal and four assists, and the Sioux Lookout Bombers beat the Ironwood Lumberjacks 13–1 on Saturday night at the Hangar. The win completed a home-ice weekend sweep.
It is Sioux Lookout’s fourth straight win, all against Ironwood. The Bombers have outscored the Lumberjacks 48–7 over those four games, and they improve to 8–3–0–1. Ironwood falls to 0–11.
Ironwood started strong and outshot the Bombers 23–22 in the first period. The Bombers still led 4–0 after 20 minutes. Logan Penston scored at 3:58. Dominique Fortin scored on the power play at 5:33, two seconds after Alex Plunz was sent off. Tyler Laszlo made it 3–0 at 8:03, and Rigel got his first of the night on the power play at 13:59.
Stanislav Stefaniv kept Ironwood off the board through that busy first period. He made 49 saves on 50 shots, including two stretches where the Bombers were down two men. The first came late in the opening period, and the second came at the start of the third, when Emmet Long and Fortin were both in the penalty box.
Captain Cooper Labelle scored at 1:29 of the second for a 5–0 lead. Mason Keramidas then gave Ironwood its best moment of the weekend. With his team shorthanded, he scored an unassisted goal at 9:48, the Lumberjacks’ first goal at the Hangar this weekend. Sioux Lookout answered 30 seconds later when Rigel scored again, and Carter and Laszlo added goals before the second intermission for a 9–1 lead.
The third period began with Sioux Lookout down two men for two minutes. They killed it off, and 16 seconds after the penalties expired, Holden Parada scored at 2:16. Markus Thompson scored 38 seconds later. Parada added his second at 4:58, and Rigel finished his hat trick at 13:55, with defenceman Tyrell Flodell earning the assist. Flodell then scored his first goal of the season at 18:40.
The game got more physical late. At 16:48 of the third, Hayden Guilbault was given a checking-from-behind major and a game misconduct. Out of the ensuing melee, Labelle received fighting and instigator penalties.
Parada had two goals and an assist, and Cobin Housley added three assists. Penston, Long and Reed Scaddan had two assists each. Kaden Wolfe played all 60 minutes for Ironwood and made 45 saves on 58 shots. Keramidas’s goal was his fifth of the season, the most on the team.
Sioux Lookout scored twice on the power play and didn’t allow Ironwood a power-play goal. Jaxon Nicol had one assist but still leads the Bombers with 25 points.
