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Playoff Opener

By RJB, 02/18/15, 4:45PM CST

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The 6th seeded Stars...

Tuesday, February 17th- The Ponds of Brookfield WI.

The 6th seeded Stars opened the 1st round of the State playoffs at home against the Beaver Dam Golden Beavers Tuesday evening. In the first period, Brookfield’s Ron Butzen (Capt. J. Hill/Schindler) opened the scoring at 9:44 on the power play and minute later, Eric Sinson (Rymaszewski, goalie N. Davis) broke in alone and slid the puck through the five hole to stretch the lead 2 – 0 to close out the first period scoring. Fifty five seconds into the second period, Gabe Lehnerer (Hawthorne/Keays) banged home a rebound to take a 3 – 0 Stars lead. Beaver Dam played a tight second period allowing only the single goal and the second period closed out with a 3 – 0 Stars lead. The Stars opened things up a bit in the third period with three goals, the first: 53 seconds in as Noah Mikelonis (Kujawa/Sinson) found the back of the net. Mike Hawthorne then went coast to coast unassisted less than a minute later, and finally, Patrick McKnight (Keays/Hawthorne) closed out the scoring at 3:02 of the third period to take a 6 – 0 lead to the final buzzer. Nick Davis stopped 9 shots in the game.