Gross overtime goal lifts Force to USHL Showcase win
Tyson Gross (’02/Calgary, AB) sank the overtime game winner to lift the Fargo Force to a 5-4 edge against the US National Development Program in one of three games played on the final day of the Dicks Sporting Goods USHL Fall Showcase tournament.
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Other games saw the Sioux City Musketeers getting past the Muskegon Lumberjacks 5-2 and the Chicago Steel wrapping up a 2-0 start to the season with a 6-1 edge against the Sioux Falls Stampede.
Fargo Force 5 USNDP 4 (ot)
The goal by Gross gave the Force its first and only lead of the contest as Team USA carried a 3-0 lead out of the opening period and was up 4-1 halfway through the second.
Two goals in the final two minutes of the middle frame had the Force within a goal and the tying goal came early in the third.
Felikss Gavars (’02/Riga Latvia); Jacob Braccini (’01/Hanover, MN — Minnesota); Cole Knuble (’04/East Grand Rapids, MI) and Erik Bargholtz (’03/Appleton, WI) fired the goals for the Force.
Frank Nazar III (’04/Mount Clemons, MI — Michigan) scored a pair for the National Development Team with others for Marek Hejduk (’04/Parker, CO — Harvard) and Isaac Howard (’04/Hudson, WI).
Sioux City Musketeers 5 Muskegon Lumberjacks 2
Musketeers held a 2-1 edge in both the first and final periods and added an unanswered middle period marker against the Lumberjacks.
Kirklan Irey (’01/Bismarck, ND — Bemidji State) and Ben Steeves (’02/Bedford, NH — Minnesota Duluth) both scored a pair for the Musketeers, Ben Doran (’03/St. Louis, MO) firing the other and Axel Mangbo (’03/Molle, Sweden) picked up the win in goal with 27 saves.
Lumberjack goals came from Gavin McCarthy (’05/Clarence Center, NY) and Thomas Sinclair (’02/Toronto, ON — Vermont).
Chicago Steel 6 Sioux Falls Stampede 1
A pair of unanswered goals in the first and second periods had the Steel comfortably in front but Cole Miller (’02/Littleton, CO) fired the only Stampede shot of 20 to get by Nicholas Haas (’01/Williamsville, NY) in the Steel goal early in the final period.
Adam Fantilli (’04/Nobleton, ON); Jack Harvey (’03/Stacy, MN — Boston U); Sam Lipkin (’03/Lafayette Hill, PA — Quinnipiac); Lukas Gustafsson (’02/Alpharetta, GA — Boston College); Jackson Blake (’03/Eden Prairie, MN — North Dakota) and Casy Laylin (’04/St. Michael, MN) scored the Steel goals.
With the completion of these games — two each for the 16 USHL teams at the Showcase event, they head into the remaining 58 regular season games apiece beginning Oct. 1
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