The St. Cloud Norsemen came up just short again this past weekend. Dropping the opener 3-2 to the Bismarck Bobcats on Friday night and 6-3 on Saturday.
Friday night’s game was a tight back and forth affair. Bismarck opened the scoring with a power play just a couple minutes into the game, but St. Cloud came back to tie it up early in the 2nd with Avry Shaw’s 3rd of the year from Gabriel Bugeaud and Tanner Hunt. A few minutes later Bismarck regained the lead, but it was Gave Gallivan tying it up back up for the Norsemen moments later. Wyatt Farrell and Sam Kartch assisted on Gallivan’s 1st of the season. Tied 2-2 heading down the stretch in the 3rd period, the Bobcats struck late scoring the game winner with 1:51 to play.
Saturday night the Norsemen jumped out to a 2-0 lead. Tanner Hunt scored his 6th of year just :11 seconds into the game with an assist from Gabriel Bugeaud. Then Luke Pazzia scored his 1st Norsemen goal off an assist from Sam Crane for the two-goal lead. Bismarck came back though with two at the end of the first and two in the second to build a 4-2 lead heading into the 3rd period. William Esterbrooks cut the lead to one at 4-3 with his 6th of the year five minutes into the 3rd with an assist from Wyatt Farrell, but the Bobcats responded scoring the final two goals.
St. Cloud (6-10-3 – 15 pts) will travel to Mason City, IA on Saturday to take on North Iowa (10-8-0-1 – 21 pts) Puck drop is 6:30
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