In a game that featured 31 penalty minutes, a whole lot of banging, and a few missed opportunities, one goal was good enough.

It wasn't a pretty goal, but it counted as 'one' on the scoreboard and that is all it took for Stevens Point Pacelli to advance to the second round of the playoffs with a 1-0 win over Rhinelander Tuesday night at Ice Hawks Arena in Section Three action.

The penalty kill units of both teams shone on this chilly late winter evening in Stevens Point, quashing a combined 11 of 12 power play chances. The only 'blemish' was a Pacelli score late in the middle period.

Late in the first period, Hodag goalie Alex Littleton made a nice glove save on a shot by Daniel Mitch. Just under a minute later, Brandon Kolasa rifled a shot past Pacelli goalie Trent Kollock but the puck bounced off the upper left section of the crossbar for a 'bar-up' into the netting.

The scoreless period ended with Littleton showing eight saves and Kollock four.

Pacelli almost got on the board in the early going of the second when Chris Karch tipped a shot in low from Bradley Maes, but the Hodag netminder corralled it with his gold-and-blue Eagle catching glove.

After matching minors and another pair of penalties did not result in a score, Freddie Wisner and Sam Tjugum teamed up on a back-door chance for Rhinelander, but Kollock slid to his left and made the save to negate that opportunity in the middle of the stanza.

With just under two minutes left in the period and a Hodag in the box, the guests had a shorthanded 2-on-1, but the shot went wide left and was quickly grabbed up by Pacelli, heading up ice the other way.

Twenty seconds later, Mitch was on the ice flat on his back celebrating his rebound goal, which he shoved back through the wickets of the Hodag goalie after the initial shot from the right point was stopped. Richard Zupan was given a helper on the play.