Clydesdales Play Tought Bit Fall To Wilderness 6-3

Jan 16

Northland Sports Online

The Clydesdales played a much improved game against the Wilderness Sunday night, but still took the 6-3 loss in Spooner, falling to 9-28-2 while Wisconsin got their seventh win in a row to move to 26-6-3.

Duluth took an early lead, with Dillon Mershon notching a penalty shot goal 7:56 into the first period. Later in the first the Wilderness kept pace, with Jeff Dunaisky making the two-on-one initial save on Steve Hughes shot but Austin Adduono was there to put the rebound home at 10:48.

Wisconsin took their first lead of the night on a Bram Erickson goal, and pushed the lead to two later as Tom Paine scored his first goal against his former team. But Duluth answered back late in the second, taking advantage of a Andre Rakas penalty as Mershon got his second of the night on a one-timer from Casey Eckman with just :36 left.

Wilderness would strike twice more, with Andrew Anderson putting home another rebound goal and Paine scoring his second that was a carbon copy of the first, top shelf over Dunaisky’s left shoulder from the glove side dot. Josh Wentz would cut it to 5-3, sneaking a nice wrister under John McLean’s blocker. Erickson’s second of the night would seal the scoring with 4:27 left to play.

McLean saved 22 of 25 in his 18th win of the season, with Dunaisky taking his 11th loss, stopping 39 of 45

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