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Season saver

By Pete Watson - Baraboo News Republic, 01/13/12, 12:45PM CST

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Mac Ebert makes a habit of getting in the way of hockey pucks headed his direction.

A senior goaltender for the Baraboo-Portage Thunderbirds, Ebert is enjoying a career-best season as its full-time starter. He has one shutout and a save-percentage of 89.7-percent - an improvement from his career average of 86 - for the T-Birds, who are 10-5-1 on the season. After 11 years playing the sport, nothing was going to get in the way of Ebert and his final year on the ice.

Not even the news that he has non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

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at the Baraboo News Republic.