River Lakes 3,
Northern Lakes 2
2 overtimes
RICHMOND — Two quick goals weren’t enough to keep the 10th-seeded Northen Lakes Lightnings’ season alive.
No. 7 seeded River Lakes matched those two goals and added another in the second overtime of Saturday’s opening round of the Section 8-2A playoffs.
Andy Sorben scored a power-play goal at 7:56 and Kegan Couture tallied another goal one minute later to give the Lightning a 2-0 first period lead.
River lakes countered with two short-handed goals to tie the score at two.
Tanner Anderson of River Lakes ended the game at 4:49 of the second overtime.
Northern Lakes’ Joey Bergquist made 43 saves.
River Lakes 2 0 0 0 1 — 3
Northern Lakes 2 0 0 0 0 — 2
First period: NL-Andy Sorben (Gaven Bickford, Connor Chambers) ppg 7:56; NL-Kegan Couture (Sorben, Narveson) 8:58; RL-Reed Pfannenstein (Mitch Ejnik) shg 10:58; RL-Pfannenstein shg 16:27
Overtime: Tanner Anderson (Stefan Tomovic, Devon Savage) 4:49
Shots on goal: NL 34, RL 46
Goalies: NL-Joey Bergquist (43 saves); RL-Chris Skluzacek (32 saves)
Overall: NL 11-13-2.
Willmar 10, W-DC 1
WILLMAR — Mike Paavola scored the lone goal for No. 10 seeded Wadena-Deer Creek during Saturday’s 10-1 loss to Willmar in the opening round of the Section 6-1A playoffs.
Willmar 7 2 1 — 10
Wadena-Deer Creek 0 1 0 — 1
First period: W-Zech Streed (Hunter Schneider, Joey Lee) :09; W-Schneider (Streed, Lee) 7:24; W-Cam Swenson (Matt Eddy) 9:11; W-Cole Hagen (Chris Odens) 12:24; W-Schneider (Streed) 13:42; W-Schneider ppg 14:54; W-Graham Dahl (Swenson) 15:31
Second period: W-Hunter Mottinger (Preston Peterson, Schneider) ppg 6:22; W-Schneider (Streed) 11:10; WDC-Mike Paavola (Mitchell Swanson) 12:05
Third period: W-Matt Eddy 14:00
Shots on goal: WDC 13, Wil 42
Goalies: WDC-Wesley Janson (10 saves), Cory McManigle (22 saves); Wil-Derek Baker (12 saves)
Overall: WDC 1-24.
