Skip To Main Content

University of Wisconsin-Superior Athletics

schedule

Wisconsin-Superior
Yellowjackets
Forsythe and Leahy
Jed Carlson-Superior Telegram

Men's Hockey

Seesaw Saturday goes Yellowjackets' way

Jeff Forsythe (4) lets a shot go while Kyle Leahy screens in front.
Box Score

Yellowjackets 6, St. Scholastica 4
Box Score

Everything that Friday's game was not for the Yellowjackets, Saturday's game was.  Twenty four hours earlier it was one of those nights for the home team, a night where they couldn't get a bounce if their collective lives depended on it.  Saturday night the bounces started to turn around, no more so than on the eventual game-winning goal as the Yellowjackets evened their record with a 6-4 win over St. Scholastica at Wessman Arena.

With the score tied at 4-4, Saints' goaltender Tyler Bruggeman sprawled out to try and cover a puck to the left of the goal.  Andy Singerhouse (Hudson, Wis./Hill-Murray) poked the puck from Bruggeman's grasp and buried the wrap-around on the right side to make it a 5-4 game.  On Friday, Singerhouse likely wouldn't have been able to get the puck free from the goaltender's glove.  But this was Saturday and Saturday was different.

Saturday saw the Yellowjackets open the scoring just 1:28 into the game.  Joey Massingham (Duncan, British Columbia/Cowichan Secondary) intercepted an errant clearing pass in the high slot and fed a pass to Pat Dalbec (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior) at the left of the goal.  Dalbec redirected the puck and beat Bruggeman up high to make it 1-0.  The Saints would come back and tie the game at 4:32 when Brandon Nowakowski took a centering pass and wristed a shot past Dennis Nordmark (Vasteras, Sweden/Widenska Sports College), making it 1-1. 

The Yellowjackets made it 2-1 at 11:38 of the opening frame on a great play by Tanner Dion (Hardisty, Alberta/Central Sedgewick).  In the defensive zone, Dion picked up the puck on the left side and drove his way to center ice, sidestepped a check and fed a pass to Nick Stoskopf (Warroad, Minn./Warroad) on the right wing.  Stoskopf did the rest, driving the net and beating Bruggeman for his first goal of the season.  Less than a minute later, however, the Saints tied it up when a Keegan Bruce shot from the left got through Nordmark's pads, evening the score at 2-2.

Early in the second period the Saints grabbed their first lead.  Brett Corcoran found a rebound to the right of the goal and slid it home at 1:42 to make it 3-2.  But just as the Saints had done all game, the Yellowjackets rallied.  Dion picked up his second assist of the game, sending a pass ahead to Brett Meyers (Brooklyn Park, Minn./Champlin Park) who found another gear to separate from the defense and slide a shot past Bruggeman to once again knot the game.

St. Scholastica regained the lead with a fluke goal at 8:11.  Chad Golanowski entered the Yellowjacket zone on the left wing and had the puck down low.  From about the goal line he played a puck toward the net that somehow got underneath Nordmark to make it a 4-3 game.  Before the second period horn sounded, however, the Yellowjackets tied it up.  Jeff Forsythe (Campbell River, British Columbia/Timberline Secondary) let a long shot go from the blue line that freshman Nick Drill (Madison, Wis./Waunakee) deflected past Bruggeman to make it 4-4.  Josh Kesler (Naperville, Ill./Northville) also assisted on Drill's first collegiate goal.

In the third the Yellowjackets took their third lead of the game on Singerhouse's unassisted marker, and it was a lead that they would not relinquish.  They found themselves on the power play four times in the third and didn't capitalize, but they weren't allowing many chances either.  Kyle Leahy (Fort St. John, British Columbia/North Peace Secondary) closed out the scoring, putting one in the empty net with 11 seconds to play, making the final score 6-4.

The margin of victory could have been more, but the Yellowjackets had three goals waved off in the game, including one that would have gone to Dalbec when the Yellowjackets had a 5-on-3 late in regulation.

Last night the teams combined for 26 penalties and 104 penalty minutes.  Tonight, through forty minutes it was a different story, with only four penalties being called.  Things changed in the third period as 12 penalties were assessed, including nine on St. Scholastica.  The big calls came at the end of regulation, when three players - Matt Malenstyn and Dylan Nowakowski of the Saints and Meyers of the Yellowjackets received five-minute fighting majors and game disqualifications.  All three players will now sit out their team's next games as a result.

Nordmark evened his record on the year at 1-1, finishing the game with 12 saves.  Bruggeman was tagged with the loss, giving up five goals on 27 shots before being lifted in the third period in favor of Colin Rundell, last night's starter.  Rundell finished with six stops.

St. Scholastica took 12 penalties for 46 minutes, while the Yellowjackets took four for 19 minutes.  On the power play the Saints were 0-1 and the Yellowjackets were 0-7.

The Yellowjackets (1-1-0, 1-1-0 NCHA) will hit the road for a weekend of non-conference play in the MIAC.  On Friday night they will be in Winona, Minn. to take on St. Mary's University beginning at 7:30 p.m.  The game can be heard live locally on 91.3 FM KUWS, beginning with the pre-game show at 7:15 p.m.  If you are outside the local listening area you can tune into the free audio stream of the broadcast at www.ifan.tv.  Jon Garver will have the call.
Print Friendly Version