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Wausau West holds off Hudson 3-2

By Bill Berg, 02/08/14, 11:30PM CST

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Clemment to Pearson cashes in twice for Warriors

Drew Pearson cashed in on two feeds from Logan Clemment  and Kevin Conley added an insurance goal as the Wausau West Warriors downed the visiting Hudson Raiders 3-2 on Saturday afternoon at Marathon park.

The game started with a furious pace, which pleased Warriors’ coach Pete Susens, “I really liked the pace of the game tonight. We have to get used to that pace going into the post-season”

The Raiders thought they got on the board early when they put a shot on goal, and got the rebound.  West goalie Sam Wiegert stopped the first shot, and covered up the second one, then got shoved into the net along with the puck. But the play had already been blown dead as soon as he covered the puck.

Hudson did get on the board first when A. J. Romanoksi got the puck in the neutral zone and bounced a beautiful pass off the side boards that was picked up by Ariez Sime who then skated in and fired a shot from the right face off dot that beat Wiegert.

The lead didn’t last long as West scored a goal on a similar shot by Drew Pearson off a pass from Logan Clemment just half a minute later.

That duo would strike again in the second peiod when Clemment took a long pass from Justin Anderson and came in on Hepfler all alone. Clemment deked to his backhand but got stoned. Logan followed the puck into the corner and threw it out in front of the net. Drew Pearson was there to deflect it through Hepfler's pads. Susens said, “Even though he got stopped on the rush, he didn’t give up. He stayed with the puck and made a play.”

With the Warriors clinging to a slim one run lead in the third period, Kevin Conley took a pass at his own blue line from Cale Bowman, bounced it off the boards, and danced around a Hudson defenseman. Then he rushed up the ice and muscled inside the other defenseman and shot one past Hepfler for a 3-1 lead.

The lead held until the Raiders pulled their goalie with just under two minutes left in the third. With a sixth attacker on the ice, Hudson scored on a deflection by Wyatt Dove of a shot from the point by Parker Shefveland with 1:24 left.

That is as close as they got, as the Warriors were able to fend off the Raiders down the stretch, with Logan Clemment killing about 20 seconds along the boards in the corner.

West goalie Sam Wiegert ended the game with 22 saves, while Cody Hepfler recorded 30 saves.

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