Randolph Gets 500th Career Win In 5-2 Victory

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Dec 13, 2012

Kerry Rodd-NSO

Mike Randolph, Duluth East head hockey coach, got his 500th win last night against one of his teams’ most fierce rivals. The Greyhounds downed Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 5-2 at the Heritage Center in Duluth and in doing so they provided the longtime head coach with his milestone victory.

A big part of the Greyhounds win was Hogan Davidson, who finished with three goals in leading his team to the win. Davidson opened the scoring at 4:27 of the first period with assists to Alex Trapp and Brian Bunten and the first period ended with East up 1-0 as they held an 11-10 shot advantage over the Jacks.

Drew Dincau pulled CEC back to 1-1 with a shot from above the right circle at 9:14 of the second period, but Davidson answered that goal for East a little over three minutes later at 12:40 to make it 2-1. The Greyhounds went ahead 3-1 at 13:37 when Jack Forbort scored on a power play with Alex Toscano and Phil Beaulieu adding the assists and after the second period East was up 3-1.

East notched back-to-back goals at :33 seconds and 3:59 from Ryan Lundgren and Davidson to make it 5-1. CEC cut the lead to 5-2 when Westin Michaud slipped home a goal from Dincau after a nearly coast to coast effort, but that was all the closer the Jacks could get.

For the game the Jacks were outshot by the Greyhounds 28-20, but Dylan Parker finished with 18 saves on those 20 shots in backstopping East to the win. Justin Ketola finished with 23 saves for the Lumberjacks.

Kerry Rodd can be reached at kerry@northlandsportsonline.com