Lumberjack Girls Hockey Beats PHM Mirage 4-2

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The Lumberjacks continued their week long run of area 7AA opponents, with a 4-2 victory over the Proctor/Hermantown/Marshall Mirage at the CARC, January 24, 2011. The 'Jacks got down 1-0 just 20 seconds into the game, when the Mirage's Reilly Fawcett beat Lumberjack goaltender Katie Beckman. The 'Jacks tied the game just 3 minutes later when Kara Cresap tipped a Kaitlyn Miller shot past Mirage goaltender Anja Morris.

Cloquet took a 2-1 lead in the period, on a Caityn Lilly breakaway goal over Morris' glove side shoulder. The second period was scoreless, mostly thanks to the 'Jacks Beckman holding strong during a flurry of action in her zone.

The third period went scoreless the first 9:46, until Carley Esse carried the puck deep into the zone and buried a wrist shot under the cross bar for a 3-1 Cloquet lead. PHM's Justina Lindberg cut the lead to 1 goal at 12:49, but Lilly scored again, burying a rebound of an Emily Gustafson into an open net before Morris could recover.

Kara Cresap celebrates her goal vs the Mirage

Carley Esse loads up her shot for a goal

Cloquet Lumberjack Boys Hockey Downs Hermantown in Overtime!

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The Lumberjacks got a 51 save performance from goaltender John Scheuer, and an overtime goal from Mark Savage to defeat the Hermantown Hawks 3-2 at the Cloquet Area Recreation Center. Connor Hady opened the scoring for Hermantown, and was answered by a Jack McFarlane powerplay goal. Tony Wilcox gave the Jacks a 2-1 lead, which was then answered by the Hawks Cody Christopherson.  Tyler Ampe stopped 23 of 26 Cloquet shots in the loss.

CEC Girls Hockey Downs Hibbing/Chisholm 1-0

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On Senior night, the Lumberjacks defeated the Hibbing/Chisholm Bluejackets 1-0 at the CARC February 1, 2010. Courtney Esse scored the Cloquet goal on a backhand in the first period, for the only goal of the game. Sarah Gustafson got the shutout win for the Lumberjacks, and Dory Johnson for the Bluejackets took the loss, despite stopping 37 of 38 shots she faced.

08-09 Class AA Stillwater Girls Hockey Storms Through Duluth, Cloquet

The #1 ranked Stillwater Ponies, class AA State Champions for 08-09 rolled through the Duluth Heritage Sports Center and Cloquet Area Recreational Center (CARC) this past weekend, beating the Duluth Northern Stars 5-0, and CEC Lumberjacks 5-1.  While the Northern Stars game was pretty lopsided, the CEC game wasn't decided until Stillwater turned their game way up in the third period, extending a 2-1 two period lead to the 5-1 victory over the 'Jacks.

Stillwater's Amanda Cartony scored 3 goals between the two games

Janessa Philipczyk scored a goal each night

Goaltender Marah Sobczak (making this save) allowed just one goal in two games

More pictures from the CEC game, with the CEC bias of course.

More from the Duluth game, a little of both from that game.

NHL Alumni Game, Cloquet

This was an attempt at indoor pictures, they're not the clearest with this camera indoors but anyway they're at the NHL Alumni game in Cloquet March 14th, before the CCM high school all star game.


Group Photo, look in the back, the last green jersey on the right of #44 Chris McAlpine. I won that one in the raffle during the 3rd period of the high school game. Some of the other "old" NHL Alumni in the game were Norm Maciver, Brian Bellows, Ian Kidd, Sean Toomey, Jeff Nielsen, Robb Stauber, and Reed Larson.



The CCM Duluth All Stars logo at center ice.



The post game handshake, the Northern Alumni won 6-4 as you can see on the clock. The goaltender #29 in white, Matt Klein, who never made it to the NHL, but was the 3rd goaltender for the University of Minnesota, Duluth made diving saves and was all over the ice. He of course is a few years younger than the players they played against, but he made the game more fun to watch.