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 Girls Shut Out Lightning

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Alyssa Acheson needed just one goal, an unassisted first period goal by Jessie Ryan, to defeat Section 7AA rival Grand Rapids/Greenway Lightning 1-0 at the CARC, January 20, 2011. Acheson stopped all 22 shots she faced in the shutout, while Lightning goaltender Sydney Helmbrecht was nearly as good, stopping 23 of 24.

Ryan's goal at 10:18 was a great individual effort, first putting a hard wrist shot on Helmbrecht, then burying the rebound into an open net with the GRG goaltender sprawled on the ice. Both teams penalty kill was superb, keeping each other scoreless on 3 powerplays.

Ryan fires the wrist shot that resulted in her rebound goal

Carley Esse works on a Lightning player in front of the Alyssa Acheson near the end of the game

Cloquet Girls Beat Superior 5-0

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The Lumberjack girls hockey team dominated the Superior Spartans, winning 5-0 and outshooting the Spartans 39-6 for the game. Kalie Shevich scored twice, while Emily Gustafson, Jessie Ryan, and Carley Esse each scored once for the 'Jacks. Gustafson picked up two assists, while Esse and Kristi Konietzko each added an assist. Alyssa Acheson and Katie Beckman split the game for the Jacks in net, with Acheson picking up the win stopping 5 shots in her 25 minutes and Beckman seeing 1 shot.

Kalie Shevich scores against Superior

Carley Esse puts the puck on her backhand to score

Cloquet Boys / Girls Hockey Lose Games

Behind 2 Trevor Olson short handed goals, the Greyhounds defeated the 'Jacks 4-0 at the CARC, December 16, 2010. The Lumberjacks skated well with the Greyhounds, after falling behind 3-0 in the first period, only giving up Olson's second short handed goal in the third period. JoJo Jeanetta kept the 'Jacks off the sccorebaord for the shutout.

Adam Hanson goes after a loose puck

 

The Lumberjacks, shorthanded by illness, had a 2 goal lead vs Elk River, December 17, 2010, but couldn't hold it, giving up 3 unanswered goals to drop the Section 7AA game 3-2 at the CARC. The 'Jacks had a 5 on 3 powerplay in the last minute, and an extra attacker from pulling goaltender Alyssa Acheson, but couldn't light the lamp 6 on 3 to tie the game before the final buzzer.

Acheson makes a leg save in the third period

Updates Since Last Post

I haven't gotten around to updating this blog since February 10th.. but I've shot a bunch of games since the last update :D  OOPS!  Below you'll find photo galleries/games I've added since the February 10th update.


The Cloquet Lumberjacks Boys Hockey team lost to Forest Lake February 15,  then beat Princeton February 20 in a play-in game for the Section 7AA playoffs.

 The CEC Lumberjacks Girls hockey team's season  was ended by the Duluth Northern Stars on February 11 in the 7AA quarterfinals.

 The Cloquet girls basketball team beat the Duluth Central Trojans and lost to the Superior Spartans, despite a 12 point lead at one point in the Superior game.

The Cloquet Boys basketball team demolished Duluth Central before a packed gym on Homecoming night, February 19th.

 

The FDLTCC Thunder women and men played Central Lakes CC in Cloquet to finish their home schedule.  The women lost despite having their first ever halftime lead, while the men lost to a very good conference leading team.

 

Also shot a Cloquet Squirt B (White) hockey game vs Moose Lake 

Lumberjacks, Northern Stars Tie 3-3

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The Lumberjacks and Northern Stars renewed their rivalry by settling nothing at all, with a 3-3 overtime tie. The Jacks came back from a 3-1 deficit in the third period, with goals by Jessie Ryan and Courtney Esse (shorthanded game tying goal.) Nikki Logergren opened the scoring for Duluth in the first period, and Callie Halverson tied the game in the second period buring a 1 timer during a 5 on 3 powerplay. Halverson's goal was answered with goals by Rosie Nelson, and Frankie Bergman to build the 3-1 lead after 2 periods. Cloquet's Melissa Clark had a shot to win the game at the very end of ovetime, burying the puck as the clock ticked to 0:00 but the goal was waved off by the referee saying time ran out, thus ending the game in the 3-3 tie.

 

 

Lumberjacks, Lightning, Skate to 3-3 Tie

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Cloquet (CEC) and GRG (Rapids/Greenway) skated to a tie 3-3 tonight (December 1, 2009).. 1-1 after 1 period, 3-1 CEC after 2 periods and 3-3 after GRG ties the game with 6:59 left in the third. The Lumberjacks killed off a 5 on 3 powerplay in OT, on two tripping penalties 30 seconds apart, then of course the Lightning went shorthanded but the Lumberjack spent some of their powerplay in their own zone.

Sarah Gustafson came up HUGE in net for the Jacks the end of the third period and overtime, stopping 2 breakaways and then doing the splits across the crease to stop a great scoring chance on the 5 on 3. A Molly Illikainen goal was sandwiched by two Dana Gallop goals for the Lightning, while CEC got goals by Jessie Ryan, Savannah Hanson, and Melissa Clark.

UMD Bulldog recruit Dana Gallop (#7 black) faces off against Lumberjack Jessie Ryan

Lumberjack captain Courtney Esse

Sarah Gustafson stopping one of her 28 saves