Boys Hockey

      The Pine City Dragons scored a pair of goals in the third period Saturday to force overtime and neither team scored in the extra session, playing to a 4-4 tie at Breezy Point. The Lightning led 4-2 into the third but the Dragons scored at 15:47 and then again at 6:00 to get the game into the overtime. Huck Balmer gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead in the first with Josiah Reier getting the assist. The Dragons took a 2-1 lead after the first period, but the Lightning struck three times in the second to take a 4-2 lead. Landon Cartie scored from Kyler Rikala and Jacob Peterson at 9:21, Reier scored from Parker Fulton and Wyatt Verville at 5:19 and Waylon Katterhagen scored at 1:01 from Garret Furry. That was it for the Lightning as the Dragons got things tied in the third. Both teams had chances in the extra session but couldn't find the back of the net. Sam Suja had 37 saves while the Lightning had 42 shots on goal.

Dragons     2 0 2 0 4

Lightning    1 3 0 0 4

        The Lightning are at Duluth Marshall Tuesday night.

     The Lightning JV scored a 10-0 win over the Dragons. Five first period goals got Northern Lakes going and they rolled to the win. In the first Jacob Peterson scored from Sutton Sullivan and Aiden Woratschka, Colton Vry scored unassisted, Sullivan tallied from Max Raushel, Sullivan again from Peterson and Derek Berg and finally Grady Tjaden scored from Raushel. They scored three more times in the second as Eli McNevin scored from Woratschka, Parker Fulton scored from Matt Prethish and Balmer, and Alex Dunbar scored unassisted. Two more goals in the final period came from McNevin from Raushel and Lucas Martin from Furry and Tristan Soular. Jeremy Betley and Weston Sewall split goaltending duties combining to stop all ten shots by the Dragons. Meanwhile the Lightning had 39 shots on goal.

      The Northern Lakes Lightning opened the season with a big 4-1 win on the road at Somerset, Wisconsin Friday night. Sam Suja stopped 11 of 12 shots to get the win in net while the Lightning had 37 shots on goal. Jacob Peterson gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead after one, scoring at the 5:15 mark. Somerset tied things at 11:56 of the second but the Lightning scored another in the second and two more goals in the third to put the game away. Parker Fulton made it 2-1 at 3:16 of the second and Josiah Reier scored from Fulton and Huck Balmer for a 3-1 lead at 9:02 of the third. Waylon Katterhagen finished off the scoring at 4:17 of the final period. Coach Tom Klein (TK) after the win, "We played a fast game, played with heart and had a lot of fun."

Lightning    1 1 2 4

Somerset   0 1 0 1

      The Lightning JV also scored a win, 5-0 over Somerset. Jacob Peterson opened the scoring at 12:17 of the first with Landon Cartie getting the assist. That was the only goal of the first period, but the Lightning picked up two more in the second. Matt Prethish scored at 9:36 from Josiah Reier and then Reier scored at 2:31 from Parker Fulton to make it 3-0. Third period scoring came from Lucas Martin from Waylon Katterhagen at 8:11 and Martin again from Katterhagen at 3:04 to complete the scoring. Weston Sewall picked up the win in goal stopping all 11 shots while the Lightning had 41 shots on net.

Lightning   1  2 2 5

Somerset  0 0 0 0

      The Lightning host Pine City Saturday afternoon at 2:00pm