All Home, All Wins: Sunday Recap

Photo Credit: Madeleine Myers

Gillette 3 @ Great Falls 6 - The Gillette Wild went on the road to take on the Great Falls Americans. In the opening period the Americans would strike first with a power play goal from Cooper Clouse, AJ Prioli and Ethan Miller picking up the assist. Right before the end of the period, the Americans would score again, AJ Prioli scoring with Cooper Clouse retuning his assist, and Ethan Miller grabbing another assist. In the second period the Wild would get on the board with a goal from Dylan Crossley, Brady McGinn and CJ Lang getting the assist. Just a minute later the Americans would answer back, Tallon Caron scoring with an assist from Fisher Hannesson. The Wild would then answer back with a goal from Thomas McDonald, Beau Delich and Greyson Ecker getting the assist. The Americans would then answer again with another Cooper Clouse goal, being assisted by AJ Prioli and Carson Sears. The Americans would continue to grow their lead with a goal from Keegan Hanson, Tallon Caron and Gavin Denis picking up the assist. In the final period, Dylan Crossley would score his second goal of the night on an unassisted goal for the Wild. To end the game the Americans would score one more time with a goal from Wyatt Hanna, Reid Lezubski with the assist. The Great Americans picked up the home win over the Wild 6-3.

New Hampshire 1 @ New Jersey 5 - The Titans made it look easy, rolling past the Jr. Mountain Kings 5-1 in a wire-to-wire win. New Jersey controlled the pace all night and backed it up on the shot clock, finishing with a commanding 49-20 edge. Ivan Korshikov opened the scoring just seven minutes in with his 31st of the season, and Brody Acropolis added another before the first intermission to set the tone. The Titans kept their foot down in the second, striking twice on the power play to stretch the lead to 4-0. New Hampshire got on the board early in the third off the stick of Tyler Lessard, but Yosef Pievsky answered back to cap the night at five. Tony Shaw wasn’t overly busy, but he was sharp when called upon, stopping 19 of 20 shots in a steady performance between the pipes for New Jersey. 

Bayou State 0 @ Louisiana 13 - The Louisiana Drillers erupt for a 13 goal performance to dismantle the Bayou State Rougarou on home ice. In an unbelievable first period, the Drillers had 36 shots on goal while limiting their opponent to just 4. Despite facing this many attempts, the Rougarou goaltender performed amazingly, and the Drillers were only able to find the back of the net twice, both times on the power play. In the second, Louisiana did not allow a single shot on goal while scoring five to take a 7-0 lead into the second intermission. In the third, they continued the relentless pressure finding the back of the net six more times to end the game with an insane final score of 13-0. Carter Gnau, Riley Schmidt, Emerson Laroche, and Lucas Dyer scored two goals each, leading their team to a dominant victory, The Drillers extend their record to an outstanding 43-1 as they remain at the top of both the Southeast Division and the entire NA3HL.

Butte 1 @ Bozeman 3 -  The Bozeman Icedogs picked up a solid 3-1 win over the Butte Irish at Haynes Pavilion, putting together a steady effort from start to finish. Reid Wilkinson got things started midway through the first, and from there Bozeman settled in and controlled the pace. Austin Storberg stretched the lead in the second with Jacob Larned and Seth Hanson again in on the play, as the Icedogs’ top line kept buzzing. Butte pushed back with a goal from Mathieu Chernauckas to make it interesting, but Bozeman never really let the game tilt. Baron Masopust added the insurance marker in the third, and Russell Newman was steady all night, turning aside 25 shots. The Icedogs poured 48 shots on net, killed off every power play, and put together another complete, workmanlike win on home ice.