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Wolves sink Oredockers
Pepper Ashland with 32 shots on goal to notch third win of the season
ELY – The Timberwolves avenged their close loss to Ashland, Wis., last Friday with a convincing 5-1 win Monday at the friendlier confines of the Ely Ice Arena. The young Ely High School hockey …
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Wolves sink Oredockers
Pepper Ashland with 32 shots on goal to notch third win of the season
ELY – The Timberwolves avenged their close loss to Ashland, Wis., last Friday with a convincing 5-1 win Monday at the friendlier confines of the Ely Ice Arena. The young Ely High School hockey team improved to 3-13.
The Timberwolves were quick on their feet on their home ice and crashed the boards with 32 shots on goal. Ely senior goalie Chase Sandberg turned away 20 of 21 shots to his net.
“It was good to be able to finally pick up a win in a while and hang on to a third-period lead,” Head Coach Jake Myers said. “The boys played really hard. I think it was their best game they played all year.”
Both teams played aggressively, with Ely called for seven penalties, while the Oredockers sat in the sin bin for six infractions. “We were winning puck races,” he said. “We were winning puck battles. We were shooting pucks from everywhere and crashing the boards.”
The Timberwolves scored twice in the first period. Junior forward Kole Macho was assisted by Logan Loe to draw first blood at 11:14. Deegan Richards scored unassisted in a power play at 14:31 to give Ely a 2-0 advantage.
Richards scored again on a power play at 3:52 in the second period, with assists by Loe and Jackson Hegman, to give Ely a 3-0 lead. Macho scored his second goal of the night at 8:25, on an even strength, unassisted scoring effort to give the Timberwolves a commanding 4-0 lead.
Ashland scored at 15:57 in the second period to make the score 4-1 at the second break.
Neither team could find the net during most of the last frame until Richards hit a hat trick score at the 16:08 mark to give Ely a 5-1 victory.
The Timberwolves’ road trip to Ashland’s Bay Area Civic Center last Friday netted the team five goals, the most in one game since all their games combined dating back to Dec. 28, but the Oredockers scored their game-winning sixth goal of the night with just 10 seconds left in regulation to get the win.
Ely was scheduled to host Duluth Marshall on Thursday, Jan. 27. Bagley Fosston visits the Ely Ice Arena on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 2 p.m., and the Timberwolves will host Park Rapids on Thursday, Feb. 3.
