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Milton Wins First Ever Home Game

By MJ Hammett, 12/02/14, 11:30PM CST

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Two shorthanded goals are the difference

 Coming into Tuesday nights Milton inaugural home game, the Red Hawks and Eastside Lakers were similar in some ways.

  Neither team had won a game in this young season, let alone scored a goal in their season so far.

  Both teams scored goals but it was Milton holding on for the 4-3 win at Mandt Community Center in Stoughton. Both teams went back and forth early on with the scoring with Eastside opening up the scoring less than two minutes in.with Jarod Pharo scoring and about halfway thru the first period they scored again on a shot from the outside that snuck 5 hole past Milton goalie Justin Burke.

  The first Milton goal ever scored was with 4:42 left in the first when Noah Pusateri  was able to get off a one timer off a feed from behind the net by Wrage Marzahl. As the Milton crowd was abuzz about the goal the Lakers came right back and scored with Turner Entermann scoring. Milton had an answer with under two minutes left in the period with a big pile in front of the Laker net and Devin Servin scored to make it 3-2 Eastside after one period.

  But on this night the Lakers were done scoring. Milton would score two shorthanded goals in ten seconds. The first came when Noah Pusateri was able to steal the puck in the neutral zone. after splitting two Lakers he was in all alone on Lakers goalie Shawn Goss. Goss came way out of net to try to disrupt the play but Pusateri went past the outstretched netminder and tied the game.

  The game winning goal was scored ten seconds later. Devin Servin got the puck and shot it. The puck hit Goss's glove and rolled down it and in the net for a 4-3 Milton lead thru two periods.

  Milton got themselves in penalty trouble in the third when they were whistled for a check from behind major penalty. With just under seven minutes left the Red Hawks were able to kill off the whole thing.  Eastside made a major push but in the end the puck could never find the way into the net. The clock showed no time left and the celebration was on for the Milton boys.

  In the game Miltons Justin Burke made 30 stops while Eastside Lakers goalie Shawn Goss stopped 38. The Lakers play Thursday in Janesville while Milton hosts Sauk Prairie Saturday night.