After three narrow losses, the Battlefords North Stars took out their recent frustrations on the cellar-dwelling La Ronge Ice Wolves Tuesday night.
The North Stars put a full 60 minutes together in routing La Ronge 8-3, racing to a 3-0 lead in the first period and a 6-1 lead in the second. They outshot the Ice Wolves 47-14 in the game.
For the North Stars it is their fourth win of the season against the Ice Wolves against no losses. Their previous wins against La Ronge were by 6-3, 4-0 and 9-6 scores.
The North Stars took the lead in the first on goals by Tanner Robin, Ryan Gil and then MacGregor Sinclair. Mitch Zambon scored the lone La Ronge goal in the first.
In the second, Elijah Loon-Stewardson scored 23 seconds in, with Sinclair adding his second of the game a minute and a half later. That was enough to chase Daniel Davidson out of the La Ronge net.
Immediately after Jordan Frey took over in goal, Owen Lamb beat him for his ninth of the season at the 2:22 mark. Max Kleiner later responded for La Ronge before Regan Doig extended the lead to 7-2 midway through the period.
Third period goals from the Ice Wolves’ Dalton Dosko and from Matthias Urbanski, his 11th of the season, rounded the scoring. Joel Grzybowski got the win in net for the North Stars stopping 11 of 14.
The North Stars now have a record of 9-5-1-2 on the season. Next up for the North Stars is a weekend road trip to the southeast for three games in three nights against Estevan, Weyburn and Notre Dame.
