MLA Boys Skate Past Pine City 5-2

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Feb 1

Kerry Rodd-NSO

A quick start to the game offensively helped the Moose Lake Area boys hockey team to a 5-2 win over Pine City/Rush City on Monday night. The Rebels scored three first period goals en-route to the win.

Just 2:03 into the first period, Michael Unzen snapped in a goal with Rejean Carlson assisting as the Rebels went up 1-0. The Rebels moved ahead 2-0 when Zach Cisar fired home a goal with Tyler Cisar notching the assist, but the Dragons pulled to within 2-1 when Beau Peterson scored on a 5-on-3 power play at 7:56. Fortunately for the Rebels, they got that goal back when Zach Cisar scored his second goal of the game at 12:28 with Tyler Cisar again picking up the assist, and MLA led it 3-1 after a period.

The Rebels scored the only two goals of the second period at 7:48 and 11:00 when Ville Mattala, a foreign exchange student, scored back-to-back goals with Stephen Gassert picking up two assists and Chris Gassert the other. At the end of the second period the Rebels held a 5-1 lead.

Nathan Theisen scored the only goal of the third period when he converted a pass from Drew Gerold at 4:32, but that was all the closer the Dragons would get the rest of the way.

The Rebels outshot the Dragons 29 to 27 for the game. Both teams had a power play goal with MLA going 1-for-4 with a man advantage and the Dragons going 1-for-3 with the extra attacker.

Austin Lanoue made 25 saves on 27 shots for the Rebels in goal, while Dragon goalie Thomas Pitzen made 24 saves on 29 shots.

Kerry Rodd can be reached at Kerry@northlandsportsonline.com