Lumberjacks work overtime for win

Bo Hanson, a 17-year-old defenseman from Idaho notched his second of the game 4:22 into overtime to lift the Muskegon Lumberjacks to a 5-4 win over the US National Development Team U-17 squad Saturday at the Subway Shootout, a seven-team USHL tournament played in Green Bay.

In other second-day games, the USNDTP U-18’s downed Bloomington 4-1 and Cedar Rapids got by the host Gamblers 3-1.

Lumberjacks 5  Team US U-17 4 (ot)

This one was close the whole way, even at 2-2 after a period, the Lumberjacks carried a 4-3 cushion into the third but Team USA evened it up three minutes into the final frame setting the state for the overtime dramatics.

Along with the two goals from Hanson, the Lumberjacks got a couple of assists from Robbie DeMontis, a 19-year-old winger from Ontario and other goals came from Bryan Nelson, a 19-year-old defender from Massachusetts, Jacob Coleman, an 18-year-old winger from Pittsburgh and Chris Klack, an 18-year-old winger from Ontario.

For the National squad, goals came from Joey Cassetti, a 16-year-old California native, Josh Norris, 16, from Oxford, Michigan, Logan Cockerill, 16, from Brighton Michigan and Jacob Tortora, 16, from New York.

Team US U-18 4 Thunder 1 

Teams traded goals through the first two periods, the U-18’s scoring the lone first period goal as Will Lockwood, a 17-year-old forward from Bloomfield Hills, MI found the mark and the Thunder responding with the lone second period goal off of the stick of Blake Glober, a 20-year-old forward from Texas.

The difference was down the stretch as the all stars potted three unanswered third period markers including another by Lockwood and others from Kieffer Bellows, a 17-year-old center from Edina, Minnesota and Trent Frederic, a 17-year-old center from St. Louis, MO. The period was closer than it sounds from the stats as the final two goals were both fired into an empty Bloomington goal in the final 90 seconds of the contest.

Jake Oettinger, 16, from Lakeville, Minnesota stopped 29 of 30 shots faced in goal for the U-18s and Logan Halladay, a 19-year-old netminder from North Carolina stopped 28 of 30 at the other end.

Roughriders 3 Gamblers 1 

The Gamblers dropped back to 1-1 in their tournament finale while Cedar Rapids responded to a 1-0 Gamblers’ lead early in the second by scoring the final three goals of the game.

Teams were even at 1-1 after a period, Nick Poehling, 19, from Lakeville, Minnesota notching the Gamblers goal in the third minute of the period and John Snodgrass, 18, from Eagan, MN responding with 59 seconds left in the period.

Justin Cole, 19 from Pennsylvania gave the Roughriders its first lead with 6:52 to play and insurance came from Jacob Hayhurst, 18 from Ontario who added the third goal with 2:46 to play.

Following are some other USHL exhibition matches from Saturday (Sept. 12), not related to the Subway Shootout:

Stars 2 at Storm 5

Tri City hosted Lincoln and exploded for three unanswered final period markers to break apart a 2-2 draw after 2.

Jason Krych, 18 from Champlin; Minnesota; Monte Graham, 17 from Massachusetts; Jake Wahlin, 18, from St. Paul, Minnesota ; Dan Labosky, 20, from Edina Minnesota and Alex Limoges, 17, from Virginia had the Storm goals while Adam Brady, 19, from Ontario and Jack Badini, 17 from Connecticut both scored for the Stars.

Lancers 0 at Musketeers 1 

Goaltenders and defense ruled this one, Niklas Lehtimaki, a 20-year-old native of Finland scored the game’s only goal near the halfway mark of the third period and Lukas Kania stopped all of the 15 shots he faced to grab the shutout for the Sioux City Musketeers.

Zackarias Skog, a 20-year-old Swedish goaltender and Kris Oldham, 18 from Alaska, split the work in goal for Omaha, combining to allow just one goal on 28 shots.

Blackhawks 2 at Fighting Saints 4

The Dubuque Fighting Saints and Waterloo Blackhawks traded goals through the first two frames at the Mystique Ice Center, Fighting Saints with the lone first period goal and Blackhawks coming back with the lone second period marker.

The visitors actually opened up a 2-1 cushion in the first minute of the second period but the host Saints roared back with three goals scored in 4:34 just past the halfway mark of the period to both grab and keep control of this one.

Darien Craighead, 18, from British Columbia; Will D’Orsi, 18, from Masssachusetts; Petter Makitalo, 18, from Sweden and Charlie Combs, 19 from St. Louis, MO had the Dubuque goals while David Cotton, 18, from Texas and Cameron Orchard, 17, from Dorr, Michigan responded for Waterloo.