Don’t look now but the Battlefords North Stars are on a roll to start the 2015-16 SJHL campaign.
The North Stars are now 3-0 after another road victory, this time at the Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt where they toppled the Broncos 6-2.
Early on, Coby Downs made it known he would be a force to be reckoned with. He scored on the power play at 4:57 to give the North Stars the early lead, with Dustin Gorgi and Matt Havens assisting.
Then at the 11:30 mark, Gorgi and Downs assisted on Connor Sych’s goal to make it 2-0, and that would be all the scoring in the first. Shots on goal were 12-10 for the North Stars.
In the second, Connor Swystun cut the margin to 2-1 at the 4:22 mark with Greg Moro and Andrew Thompson assisting. But Downs answered back at the 10:24 mark with Gorgi getting his third assist of the night, to make it 3-1.
At the 13:37 mark Layne Young scored shorthanded with Sych assisting, and that made it 4-1.
In the third Matt Havens scored unassisted at 7:57 to make it 5-1. Humboldt got one back when Colin Woods scored at the 9:19 mark to make it 5-2, but Jake McMillen rounded out the scoring with a goal from Downs and Gorgi to make it a 6-2 final score.
Humboldt ended up outshooting the North Stars 26-24 on the night, but Ryan Rewerts stopped 24 shots en route to the win. The three stars for the Battlefords were Downs, Gorgi and Sych.
The win keeps the North Stars firmly on top of the newly-renamed Finning Division, so named after Finning’s purchase of Kramer, Ltd. this year. After Tuesday’s action the North Stars had six points compared to Humboldt’s 3, Notre Dame’s 2 and Kindersley’s zero.
The next action for the North Stars is Friday night at the Civic Centre against Yorkton, followed up by a road trip to Nipawin Saturday.
