After more than a decade as members of the Northwest Icemen co-op, the Spooner Rails are going their own this season. Good on you Spooner. 

On Saturday, the Rails travel to the Langlade County Multipurpose Building in Antigo to take on the Red Robins. The first and third periods were filled with good hockey, but the second period got away from both teams, and the Robins left with a 9-5 win.

Antigo's Paden Michalik picked up the only goal of the first period. He picked off a Spooner outlet pass and weaved through the zone before going high-blocker side to put the Robins up 1-0.

Spooner evened it up on the power play six minute into the second period. Jesse Morales took a feed at the left dot from Alex Kissack behind the net and roofed it to tie the game.

Unfortunately for the Rails, the Robins followed with a goal 39 seconds later, and a total of three goals in 1:08. All-in-all it went from a tight 1-0 game, to a 4-2 slugfest in the span of 1:47.

The Rails and Robins traded goals, three each, for the remainder of the second period, and the period ended with the Robins holding a 7-4 lead.

The teams again traded three goals in the span of 52 seconds in the third period that saw the Robins take a 9-5 win.

Travis Johnson stopped 38 of 47 shots for the Rails int he game, and Nolan Bunnell stopped 26 of 31 for the Robins.

Five different players scored Spooner's five goals: Deagan Cleveland, Mason Seifert, Jesse Morales, Trayden Wilson, and Owen Dernovsek.

For the Robins, all nine goals were tallied by just three players. Own Dickmen had two, Landon Nelson had three, and Paden Michalik had four.

The loss dropped Spooner to 1-4 on the season, but the five-goal outburst was a season high so far. The win improved the Robins to 4-4 after back-to-back lopsided losses to Mosinee and Lakeland after a promising start to the season.