SMIGAJ HAS HAT TRICK AS STEVENS POINT BOYS HOCKEY BEATS MOSINEE

Zaleski Sports

STEVENS POINT – Kade Smigaj scored three goals, and Jackson Schroeder a goal and three assists to lift the Stevens Point boys hockey team to a 5-2 nonconference win over Mosinee on Tuesday at K.B. Willett Ice Arena.

Schroeder and Smigaj scored in the first period to put the Panthers (2-0) up 2-0.

The score held until the third period when SPASH scored three more time to open up a 5-0 lead. Smigaj scored twice and Coy Brish added another in the rally.

Mosinee’s Ethan Oatman scored twice in the final 5 minutes in the game.

Mosinee (1-1) plays at Medford in its Great Northern Conference opener on Thursday. Stevens Point returns to action Saturday afternoon with a nonconference game against Green Bay Notre Dame.

Panthers 5, Indians 2

Mosinee 0 0 2 - 2

Stevens Point 2 0 3 - 5

First period: 1. SP, Jackson Schroeder (Kade Smigaj), pp., 2:13; 2. SP, Smigaj (Schroeder), 6:30.

Third period: 3. SP, Smigaj (Schroeder, Coy Brish), 2:54; 4. SP, Brish (Maksim Salienko, 9:26; 5. SP, Smigaj (Brish, Schroeder), 10:31; 6. M, Ethan Oatman (Ondrej Napravnik), 12:25; 7. M, Oatman (Napravnik), 16:01.

Saves: M, Aiden Karst 25; SP, Hunter Christjohn 24.

Records: Mosinee 1-1; Stevens Point 2-0.