Mar. 25—SAUK RAPIDS — The Willmar WarHawks got some strong goaltending to beat the Granite City Lumberjacks 3-1 Wednesday night at the Armadillo Deck Sports Arena.
Lukas Haugen stopped 43 of 44 shots to earn the victory for the WarHawks. The 20-year-old from Excelsior now has a 6-6 record in NA3HL play with a 2.24 goals-against average and a .931 save percentage for Willmar.
The WarHawks got goals from Cole Wigestrand, Ethan Mock and Isaiah Thomas. Wigestrand opened the scoring at 9:19 of the first. It was the 20-year-old’s eighth goal of the season. He’s a forward from Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Ethan Mock scored at 3:10 of the second period for Willmar. It was the 19-year-old defenseman’s third goal of the year. He’s from Bemidji.
Isaiah Thomas closed out the scoring with his sixth goal at 19:48 of the third. He’s a 21-year-old forward from Bismarck, N.D.
The WarHawks next play at 8:10 p.m. Saturday against the Alexandria Blizzard at Alexandria’s Runestone Community Center. They then close the regular season against the New Ulm Steel at 7 p.m. Sunday at the New Ulm Civic Center.
Willmar 3,
Granite City 1
Willmar (20-18-0) 1 1 1 — 3
Granite City (25-11-0) 1 0 0 — 1
FIRST PERIOD — (1) W: Cole Wigestrand 8 (Jonah Jangula, Hunter Bjorge) 9:19 … (2) GC: Ben Anderson 10 (Cody Dias, Tal Halliday) 18:05 (pp) …. PENALTIES: (1) GC: Kyle Mortenson (holding-minor, 2 min) 1:52 … (2) W: Bjorge (head contact-major, 5 min) 13:13 … (3) W: Bjorge (head contact,-game misconduct, 20 min) 13:13 … (4) W: Michael Sweetland (boarding-minor, 2 min) 18:38 … (5) GC: Halliday (roughing-minor, 2 min) 18:38.
SECOND PERIOD — (3) W: Ethan Mock 3 (Austin Jozwick, Kaleb Miller) 3:10. PENALTIES: (6) W: Nate Cox (slashing-minor, 2 min) 4:13 … (7) GC: Sean Davidson (hooking-minor, 2 min) 7:03 … (8) W: Brady O’Brien (cross checking-minor, 2 min) 12:35 … (9) GC: Anderson (roughing-minor, 2 min) 12:35 … (10) W: Cox (slashing-minor, 2 min) 17:42 … (11) GC: Hanson O’Leary (roughing-minor, 2 min) 18:14.
THIRD PERIOD — No scoring. PENALTIES: None.
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — W: Lukas Haugen 43/44 … GC: Bailey Huber 25/27
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