Storm Squirts hosts tournament January 13th and 14th

The MBA Storm hosted a Squirt B Tournament at the Benson Civic Center Jan. 13th and 14th, with six teams participating.  The Storm will kick off the tourney with a 16-0 victory over the Paynesville/New London Spicer team.   Seven different players will score while the team worked on playing different positions and passing the puck.

Mac Beyer will get it started period one about one and a half minutes into the game with a goal, unassisted.  Brody Gimberlin will pick up one of his own seconds later off the pass from Beyer.  Corbin Heder will find the net, assisted by Tanner Mikkelson and Jordan Staples will net one unassisted at 10:51.  M. Beyer scores again, assisted by Darion Helberg and Bo Gullickson.  Blake Crandall will also find the back of the net from near the crease, unassisted.  Jordan Staples will finish the scoring in the period with 3:34 remaining, unassisted. 

To start the second period B. Crandall will net his second of the game at 10:31, assisted by B. Gullickson.  T.  Picht will get an assist working the puck across ice to J. Staples with the hot stick who will score two more, taking advantage of the opportunity to shoot from the blue line.    Tanner Mikkelson will score at 4:10, assisted by Corey Storck.  Taner Gimberlin puts one in the back of the net with the pass coming from T. Picht. 

The third period finds the Storm coasting when T. Mikkelson scores, assisted by B. Crandall and Chad Schwarz.  Mikkelson finds another at 12:32 to complete his hat trick, assisted again by Schwarz.  M. Beyer will get a solo goal at 6:03. T. Mikkelson will finish things off finding the inside of the net at 2:49 left in the game from a pass on stick from B. Crandall.

MBA’s second game was a win over Breck-Wahpeton White 13-1.  Holding true to form, starting the scoring was Mac Beyer, unassisted.  Bryce Jergenson gets a pass from Corey Storck to score.  Jacob Aarhus will pounce on one at the corner of the net to score, unassisted.  Jordan Staples will also find the back of the net with 28 seconds left in period one, unassisted.

To start the 2nd period, Corbin Heder will score assisted by T. Mikkelson and B. Crandall.  Taner Picht passes to Beyer for a goal.  Beyer then will give it up to Brody Gimerlin to score.  Beyer also finds a goal unassisted in the second period.  Keeping the passing going, T. Picht will score assisted by Beyer.  Morgan Staton will find the net unassisted once in the second and once in the 3rd period.  Jordon Staples will also pick one up  unassisted in the third period.  Bo Gullickson will finish the period putting the puck in the back of the net off the pass from T. Mikkelson and M. Beyer. 

The Storm will kill off two penalties in the game and go on to defeat BW-White.  Austin Crow will pick up the win as goalie with eight save in the game.

Playing in pool play for the tournament was Big Stone-Ortonville who will lose to Breck-Wahpeton Black 8-4.  Red Wing will beat Big Stone-Ortonville 13-2 in the afternoon game.  Paynesville-New London Spicer and Beck-Wahpeton White will skate to an exciting 1-1 tie.  Red Wing will defeat Breck-Wahpeton Black 6-2 for the last game of pool play.

On Sunday, Big Stone-Ortonville will defeat Paynesville in the consolation game 3-2.  In the 3rd place game the BW Black team will defeat the BW White team 8-2.  The MBA Storm will dominate in the Championship game, winning by a 15-1 margin.  In that game, Mac Beyer will again get things started putting one in off the pass from T. Mikkelson.  T. Picht will team up with M. Beyer to score the next one.  T. Mikkelson will find the pass from M. Beyer to score at 6:49 of period one.  Beyer, continuing to be around the puck will get another goal, assisted by Picht.  Darion Helberg will find the net with 23 seconds left in the period, assisted by Morgan Staton. 

Period two starts out with two from Beyer.  One unassisted, while the other assisted by T. Picht.  Morgan Staton will sneak the puck past the goalie, unassisted.  T. Mikkelson will team up with Picht.  Picht picks up a playmaker in the game.  Brody Gimberlin will find the net, unassisted.  Red Wing will get the last goal of the period.

The Storm will score three in the 3rd period with Darion Helberg scoring at 11:08 with the assists going to Corbin Heder and M. Staton.  M. Beyer will get a pass from T. Picht to score again and T. Picht scores the last goal of the game unassisted.  Austin Crow will be in the net for the win.  The coaches commented that the MBA Storm have been improving on their passing game.  They are working hard and are getting better with team play. 

The team is looking forward to playing Alex on Sunday (12:45) in Benson and then going to the Paynesville tournament to face St. Cloud and Redwood.