The boys hockey team started out their season with three home games over the past week. They played Roseville in the season opener and lost 5-2. They then played East Grand Forks last Friday. East Grand Fork twice led by 3 goals and TG erased the first lead but wasn’t able erase the second and lost 6-5. 

TG was down 3-0 after a goal by Bauer Brown with 4 minutes left in the period. But TG started to show some life with a goal by Tyler Cashill in the late minutes of the first period.

TG brought that momentum into the second period with 2 goals by Sam Hentges within the first 5 minutes. But East Grand Forks was quick to answer TG’s 3rd goal with a goal by Bauer Brown 31 seconds later.

East Grand Forks’ momentum carried them to another 3 goal lead at the end of the second period with Bauer Brown completing the hat trick.

Down 3 goals with 11 minutes left in the game again Sam Hentges sparked the TG hockey team with a goal to complete his hat-trick. He then scored his fourth goal of the game to cut East Grand Forks’ lead to one but the team was unable to tie the game and lost 6-5.

3 stars of the game:

1. Sam Hentges 4 goals 1 assist (Totino-Grace)
2. Bauer Brown 3 goals 1 assist (East Grand Forks)
3. Hunter Olson 1 goal 3 assists  (East Grand Forks)

TG then played Thief River Falls on Saturday and won their first game of the year 4-1.