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Davies clips Minot for 5th with 3 unanswered goals
By JOE MELLENBRUCH
Staff Writer
jmellenbruch@minotdailynews.com
WEST FARGO — Sporting a
one-goal lead after two periods on
Saturday at Veterans Memorial
Arena, Minot High’s girls hockey
team was 17 minutes away from
capturing its second consecutive
fifth-place trophy.
During a 49-second span early
in the third period, No. 6-seeded
Fargo Davies spoiled those aspira-
tions in a hurry.
With goals from junior captain
Megan Lorenz and freshman
Emily Anderson, the Eagles quick-
ly erased their deficit less than
three minutes into the final frame
en route to a 3-1 fifth-place victory
over the Majettes, who have now
taken sixth at the state tournament
in seven of the last eight seasons.
Earlier this week, Minot coach
Weylin Wahlstrom was clear in
outlining his team’s expectations,
claiming that everything his team
experienced this weekend would
be viewed a positive. Considering
Minot’s youth as the second-
youngest team in the tournament,
it’s not an unthinkable notion.
According to Minot’s fourth-
year coach, his team’s postgame
discussion wasn’t about Saturday’s
loss.
“They didn’t want to talk about
how the season was over. They
wanted to talk about what they
need to do next year, and that’s a
great sign,” Wahlstrom said.
“That’s what you’re looking for as a
coach, that they’re looking at how
they can improve, how they can
get better and get to that next level.
That’s great because you know
they’re not dwelling on the fact
that they didn’t do it this year.
They’re already focused on how
they can make it happen next
year.”
For a moment, the Majettes
seemed destined to finish their
season with another state tourna-
ment victory.
Managing a scoreless deadlock
late in the second period, junior
forward Taylor Hooker — one of
three Minot forwards to register
three points this weekend —
found herself sprinting up the far-
side boards with seventh-grader
Dess Flom to her left. Approaching
the opposing net, Hooker sent a
pass for Flom, who deked Davies
freshman goaltender Sydney
Peterson to her left before dragging
the puck across the crease for an
easy backhanded finish.
The goal was Flom’s 12th of the
year and her first at the state tour-
nament. With 24 points this sea-
son as the state’s youngest varsity
player, she finished second only to
Grand Forks eighth-grader Abby
Schauer as the state’s most prolific
junior-high player.
Flom is one of six junior-high
competitors for the Majettes, who
are returning all but two players
next season.
“A lot of our girls got their feet
wet, got a chance to play in a state
tournament atmosphere,”
Wahlstrom said. “It’s too bad for
our two seniors that we couldn’t
have ended this season with a win,
but for the girls coming back, they
had an opportunity to be here and
to know what it takes to get to
advance even further.”
After splitting their season
series with Minot, the Eagles
responded to their one-goal deficit
by going up 2-1 with less than
three minutes gone from the third
period.
Lorenz provided the equalizer
just 1 minute, 42 seconds in, her
shot finding the twine after a
healthy deflection from the glove
of Minot freshman goaltender Alex
Nelson.
Just 49 seconds later,
Anderson buried her second goal
of the season to give Davies its
game-clinching lead, helped by
team assists leader Paige
Bettenhausen.
“I thought we had a slow start
for sure, but the girls responded
well for that goal,” Davies coach
Josh Issertell said. “We talked at
the intermission and said that the
next one needed to be ours, and
that we needed to move our feet
and stick to the process. We didn’t
need any individuals out there. If
we were going to dig ourselves out
of that hole, it was going to be as a
team, and our girls answered the
bell.”
Davies finished off its second
straight victory with another goal
late in the third.
After dispossessing Hooker in
Minot’s defensive zone, Davies
junior Miryley Hartell fired a left-
handed wrister from close range,
which deflected off Nelson’s
shoulder pad and in for the Eagles’
third. Nelson tallied a game-high
23 saves and finished with a 15-
11-0 record in her first varsity sea-
son.
Sophomore points leader
Bryanna Bergeron joins Flom and
Hooker as Minot’s co-point leaders
this weekend. All scored three
points, including a team-best two
goals from Hooker in Friday’s 6-3
win over Dickinson.
Minot’s top 11 scorers return for
the Majettes next season.
“The biggest thing for us as
coaches is the hunger that these
girls have shown this season,”
Wahlstrom said. “They wish they
could come back next week and
start this process all over again, but
the good news is that we have an
entire year to prepare for that, to
work on our individual skill and
development.
“We’re disappointed today, but
that the same time there are a lot of
positives we can take from this
weekend.”
Joe Mellenbruch covers Minot
High sports, the Minot Minotauros
and Minot State men’s hockey.
Follow him on Twitter
@Mellenbruch_MDN.
my vault and nailing that
was really nice so that I
could win vault for my sen-
ior year.”
Albertson called Reiter’s
shot before her vault, saying
that, “She’s got this one.”
And why not?
Reiter proved she was
bent on finishing her career
on a high note, even if it did-
n’t include an all-around title.
With her score, she edged
Fossum — who also placed
first on beam and bars en
route to her fourth career all-
around title — by 0.067
points.
“It was bittersweet com-
peting in my last competi-
tion in this leotard, but I’m
really happy that I could end
my career with my team — I
love my team — and ending
it with a 2015 state champi-
onship,” Reiter said.
The Majettes rolled Friday
to their fifth team champi-
onship in seven years.
Reiter and junior Hannah
Werchau were all-around
hopefuls, but neither could
accomplish that feat.
Werchau finished fourth in
the all-around with 36.967
points. Senior Jenna Breuer
(36.683) and junior
Savannah Fix (36.483)
placed seventh and eighth,
respectively. Olivia
Schoffstall (14th) and
Stephanie Huether (18th)
also cracked the top 20.
“With the bigger skills,
it’s tough to go back to back,”
Albertson said. “They’re
older, they get a little more
fatigued. They wanted big
day yesterday, and we
emphasize the team. If you
asked any of them, if they
had to pick which day to
perform at the top, they
would’ve all picked yester-
day. It would’ve been a
bonus to hit two days in a
row but it doesn’t always
happen that way.”
Breuer was Minot’s top
finisher in Beam (second,
9.650) and bars (third, 9.267).
But it was Reiter who
came through and perse-
vered, winning her first indi-
vidual state title.
Albertson said Reiter’s
team never doubted her.
“Madison is explosive,
she’s a powerhouse,” she
said. “She’s fun to watch. ...
It came with her last event
after a real rough start. That
speaks to her determination
and focus to go out as a state
champion on the vault.”
Ryan Holmgren covers
MinotStateathleticsandhigh
school sports. Follow him on
Twitter @ryanholmgren.
Reiter
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make the breakthrough.
Junior forward Ethan
Czaplewski was the man of
the moment. After Bender
misplayed the puck behind
his own net, the resulting
scramble sent the puck to
Czaplewski at the far circle.
With a flailing effort,
Czaplewski fired the puck
on net. Despite Bender’s div-
ing attempt, the shot crept
over the red line to give the
Magicians a 1-0 lead.
Sophomore defenseman
Easton Bennett assisted the
goal for his third point of the
tournament.
He found his fourth mid-
way through the second
period.
In the buildup, Czaplewski
glided into Central’s defensive
zoneandfiredashotontarget.
The resulting rebound was
regained by the Minot junior,
who proceeded to find
Bennett at the nearside
boards.
Flom was found
moments later in the far cir-
cle, unmarked, with noth-
ing but ice between him
and the goal. Bennett’s pass
found Flom awkwardly, but
Minot’s points leader cor-
ralled it before firing in his
third goal of the tourna-
ment.
Yet another winner for
Minot’s star forward.
Central halved its deficit
with less than 10 minutes to
play, a power-play goal
from senior defenseman
Hudson Warner, but it was
all the Knights could
muster.
And Effertz was simply
too good. As the all-tourna-
ment goalie, he finished
with a combined 95 saves
during Minot’s title-clinch-
ing run.
“There’s no better feeling
than to end your high-school
career with a state title, espe-
cially with this group of
guys,” said Flom, who fin-
ished with a team-best 28
goals. “There’s nobody I’d
rather win it with.
“We’ve bonded over the
years. We grew up playing
together. We knew that if we
wanted to win it, we had to
buy in and play as a team,
and that’s what we did.”
Joe Mellenbruch covers
Minot High sports, the Minot
Minotauros and Minot State
men’s hockey. Follow him on
Twitter@Mellenbruch_MDN.
MHS
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MANKATO, Minn. —
Minot State sophomore
Mitchell Eull (HWT) pow-
ered his way into the semifi-
nals of the NCAA Super
Region 3 Championships
Saturday at the Taylor
Center.
Eull is one of two MSU
wrestlers still alive at the
regional as freshman Cody
Haugen (149) finished 2-1
on the day to make it to day
two of the tournament. The
second day begins at Noon
with the top four finishers in
each weight class advancing
to the NCAA National
Championships in St. Louis,
Mo., on March 13-14.
“I’m very happy with
how today worked for
Mitchell, getting to the semi-
finals is a big deal,” MSU
coach Robin Ersland said. “It
took him – and a bunch of
our guys – a little while to
get going. It really helps to
get that first one, because
once you been there, it does-
n’t seem like a as big of a
deal, been there, done that,
so to speak. I think winning
early is really important, you
can’t wait a second in this
event, you have to go right
away and Mitch and Cody
are starting to learn that.”
The duo were the only
ones to survive the meet’s
first day as MSU finished
with five wins overall and
sits in a tie for 11th place
with 9.0 points.
“We probably did better
than I feel right now because
I feel we let a couple slip
away,” Ersland said. “But
every coach here feels that
way in a tournament like
this. We did some good
things and hopefully we can
keep it rolling.”
Eull and Haugen won
their first match of the day in
similar fashion as both
earned takedowns late in the
match to finish off oppo-
nents. Eull defeated
Lindenwood’s Jacob
Borgmeyer 3-1 with a late
takedown. He then rolled to
an 8-0 major decision over
Nader Abdullatif of
Minnesota State- Moorhead
in the quarterfinals.
“Mitch settled in after get-
ting things figured out in the
first match,” Ersland said.
He will face Southwest
Minnesota State’s Cole
Wilson in an all Northern
Sun Intercollegiate
Conference semifinal.
Haugen also rallied late
in the opening round, get-
ting a takedown against
Trent Williams of
McKendree University, to
earn a 4-3 win. Williams had
defeated Haugen twice dur-
ing the season, but Haugen
finished him off in the first
round. In the second round,
He fell 12-4 to Terrel
Wilbourn, the No. 3 ranked
149-pounder in the country.
Haugen then topped Dane
Fischer of Mary 10-4 to con-
tinue his tournament.
“I thought he was going
to get a pin there against the
Mary kid, he had it, but
that’s still a good win,”
Ersland said. “Cody had a
decent match against the
No. 3 guy in the country, a
pretty darn good wrestler,
and he beat a guy who beat
him twice this season. It’s
pretty nice to beat a guy who
has beaten you twice and to
do it at this tournament.”
Eull will look to clinch
MSU’s first spot on the
NCAA National
Championships with his
semifinal bout starting at
noon Sunday.
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Minot High sophomore Mackinzy MacIver looks toward
the puck after being tripped during Saturdayʼs fifth-place
contest at Veterans Memorial Arena in West Fargo.
Haugen, Eull still alive at NCAA Super Region 3
Minot State Sports Information
Minot State freshman 149-pounder Cody Haugen wrestles Saturday on
the first day of the NCAA Division II Super Region 3 tournament. Haugen
and teammate Mitchell Eull advanced to the final day of the event.