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Wausau West Flexes Muscles in Early Tournament

By Bill berg, WiPH Staff, 11/27/16, 11:30AM CST

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Warriors dominate Superior and Eau Claire Memorial

Wausau West showed that they deserved the top ranking in the state with a dominating performance in the Red Flint Rock and Stone Meltdown tournament in Eau Claire on Friday and Saturday. The Warriors dispatched Superior 7-1 in the preliminary game, and then throttled Eau Claire Memorial 5-2 in the championship game.

Wausau West opened up the scoring in the championship game just 1:14 into the first period, catching ECM in a line change. Josh Bohlin looked up from his own end and saw that Christian Bardarson was all alone down by the Old Abes blue line. Bohlin fired the pass up the ice, Bardarson gathered it in and skated in on ECM goalie Trevor Hudecek unmolested. The shot went over Hudecek’s shoulder and the Warriors were on their way.

Later in the first period, the ECM defensemen lost track of Bohlin by their blue line and Max Techel found him with a stretch pass. Bohlin skated in and beat Hudecek through the five hole, giving the Warriors a 2-0 lead they would take into the locker room.

Hudecek stopped 11 of the 13 shots he faced in the first. In the other net, Jacob Warnke stopped all nine shots he saw in the frame.

The Warriors increased their lead to 3-0 four minutes into the second period. Some sloppy defensive play in from of the Old Abes net resulted in a turnover to Bohlin in the slot. He took one step to his right and fired a wrist shot into the upper corner.

Memorial came back with two goals of their own later in the second. Hutson Collins scored a power play goal when he fired a shot from the right point through traffic. Warnke got his stick on the puck, but deflected it into the top of the netting. With less than a minute left in the period, Dawson Schwengler took a wrist shot from the top of the left circle that beat Warnke high on the glove side.

West out-shot Memorial 20-11 in the second period, but saw their lead cut to one goal.

Bardarson gave the Warriors some breathing room ten minutes into the third when he scored from the back door on a power play. He was assisted on the play by Kellen Tharaldson, but it was set up by some hard work by freshmen Marc Sippel and Cade Lemmer.

Sam Techel finished off the scoring with a shot from the slot that was set up by a drop-pass from older brother Nick at 13:16.

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