Midgets pick up first win of the season against Oilers

• McKenna Love

Dickinson junior McKenna Love, left, shoots the puck past Watford City defender Rayven Meinke, right, during a nonconference hockey game on Thursday at the Dickinson Recreation Center. The Midgets won 2-1 for their first win of the season.

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The Dickinson High girls hockey team picked up its first win of the season Thursday.

The Midgets netted goals in the second and third periods to beat Watford City 2-1.

McKenna Love scored with 1 minute, 56 seconds left in the second period, while Kayla Wallace added the game-winning goal in the third. Bree Jordan tallied the assist on Love’s goal and Rachel Lantz had the assist on Wallace’s goal.

Karie Skerda scored the Oilers’ lone goal just 51 seconds after Dickinson’s first goal.

Dickinson’s Paige Fahlstrom grabbed 22 saves, while Cheyanne Boot stopped 24.

WC 0 1 0 – 1

Dickinson 0 1 1 – 2

FIRST PERIOD: No scoring.

SECOND PERIOD: 1, D, McKenna Love (Bree Jordan) 1:56. 2, WC, Karie Skerda (Morgan Berquist, Tessa Dwyer) 1:05.

THIRD PERIOD: 3, D, Kayla Wallace (Rachel Lantz) 3:44.

SAVES: WC, Cheyanne Boot 10-10-4–24. D, Paige Fahlstrom 6-7-9–22.

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