First 10 minutes key to Jays’ win over Midgets

• Tim Knutson

Press Photo by Royal McGregor Dickinson junior Tim Knutson, right, is slammed into the boards by Jamestown junior Nick Watne on Saturday afternoon during a West Region boys hockey game at the Dickinson Recreation Center.

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The Dickinson High boys hockey team would love to have the first 10 minutes of the first period back.

Jamestown scored three first-period goals en route to a 4-1 West Region win over Dickinson on Saturday at the Dickinson Recreation Center.

“It’s a failure to play three periods of hockey again,” Dickinson head coach Tom Folske said. “It wasn’t being ready. I’m going to put that on the head coach. That’s not going to happen again.”

In fact, it didn’t take long for Jamestown to get comfortable on the road ice. Austin Rene scored the Blue Jays’ first goal 1 minute, 39 seconds into the game. Nick Stockert followed with another less than 5 minutes later.

Jake Stilwell, who leads the Blue Jays with 13 goals and nine assists, scored the team’s final two goals.

The Blue Jays’ (4-6, 4-4 West) objective after the first period was to continue to apply pressure. However, Jamestown head coach Matt Stockert thought his team let up a little bit.

“Second period, when you want them to attack and go after them, we kind of sat back and let Dickinson do what they wanted to do,” he said. “It turned into some offensive opportunities for them. I thought the kids regrouped after the second period and finished the game on a good note.”

After the rough first 10 minutes, the Midgets (5-6, 3-5 West) settled down. The loss marks the first time this season Dickinson has fallen below .500.

After starting the season 3-0, the Midgets have lost six of their last eight games.

“We can’t dig ourselves into a hole like that,” Dickinson senior captain Brendin Steiner said. “We usually don’t come out that flat. If we can play hard throughout the game, we can be at the top of the WDA.”

Steiner netted Dickinson’s lone goal of the game — his third of the season — as Tim Knudson came in on the assist. Jamestown’s Brandon Stahlhut was charged with a roughing penalty and with 19 seconds left in the second and Dickinson scored seven seconds later.

“We just really wanted to finish the period strong,” Steiner said. “We won the puck off the draw and we got a good look at the goaltender.”

In the crease for Jamestown was Ben Walz, who stopped 24 shots. Dickinson senior Jamison Gray made 17 saves.

“Ben played real well,” Matt Stockert said. “He saw the puck real well, he stopped the first one and didn’t leave too many rebounds.”

Both teams play Mandan next week. Jamestown plays the Braves on Tuesday and Dickinson hosts them at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Dickinson’s first meeting with Mandan on Dec. 13 ended in a 5-4 overtime loss.

Folske knows the Midgets need all the points they can get as their region schedule cranks up.

“We got a point the last time we played them, but we need all three this time,” he said. “We need to come out, set the tempo right away and finish.”

Jamestown 3 0 1 – 4

Dickinson 0 1 0 – 1

FIRST PERIOD: 1, J, Austin Rene (Tom Bruns) 15:21. 2, J, Nick Stockert (Brandon Stahlhut) 10:22. 3, J, Jake Stilwell (Dakota Spitzer) 7:23.

SECOND PERIOD: 4, D, Brendin Steiner (Tim Knudson) :12.

THIRD PERIOD: 5, J, Stilwell (Alex Williams, Bruns) 7:08.

SAVES: J, Ben Walz 4-10-10–24. D, Jamison Gray 6-5-6–17.

Jamestown uses barrage of scorers to down Dickinson

The Dickinson girls hockey team received a boost of momentum after Rachel Lantz scored with 10:53 left in the first period to tie the game at 1.

After that, however, Jamestown supplied 11 unanswered goals en route to a 12-1 North Dakota girls hockey victory.

“I felt like we started off strong and let the game go after that,” Dickinson head coach Lauren Hansen said. “It just gives us something to work on for next time.”

Lantz’ goal, which Kayla Wallace and Kira Zastoupil came on to assist, knotted the game a little over 6 minutes into the game.

Steph Kamlitz led the Blue Jays with four goals and one assist, while Larissa Wiest added two goals and Amber Schaack supplied one goal and two assists.

The Blue Jays (10-2, 8-1 state) had seven players score goals. Elly Milender added three assists.

Jamestown’s Ally Dion got her first start in goal and finished with 11 saves. Dickinson’s Paige Fahlstrom stopped 26 shots in the first and second periods. Kelsey Gillen finished out the game for the Midgets with three saves.

Dickinson (1-10, 0-8 state) hosts Mandan at 5:15 p.m. Thursday.

“It’s good for the girls to see that they can tie up a game, if they try hard enough,” Hansen said. “It showed us that we have to stay focused to put a game away.”

Jamestown 4 5 3 – 12

Dickinson 1 0 0 – 1

FIRST PERIOD: 1, J, Brenna Pritchert (Amber Schaak) 13:42. 2, D, Rachel Lantz (Kayla Wallace, Kira Zastoupil) 10:53. 3, J, Schaak (unassisted) 10:33. 4, J, Steph Kamlitz (Schaak) 6:06. 5, J, Kamlitz (Elly Milender, Carissa Finck) 1:44.

SECOND PERIOD: 6, J, Torri Kamlitz (Pritchert) 14:29. 7, J, Milender (Jade Schafer, S. Kamlitz) 13:16. 8, J, Larissa Wiest (T. Kamlitz) 12:28. 9, J, Sydney Soulis (Haley Hillstrom) 8:18. 10, J, S. Kamlitz (T. Kamlitz) :55.

THIRD PERIOD: 11, J, Wiest (Soulis) 9:52. 12, J, S. Kamlitz (Milender) 8:30. 13, J, S. Kamlitz (Milender, Schaack) 1:03.

SAVES: J, Ally Dion 7-3-1–11. D, Paige Fahlstrom 16-10-x–26; Kelsey Gillen x-x-3–3.

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