PEQUOT LAKES -- The Morris/Benson Area Storm got off to a fast start at the three-day Northern Lakes boys hockey tournament by edging Red Lake Falls 5-4 in Monday's opening game.
Brody Gimberlin's goal with 4:29 left in the second period put the Storm in front, 5-3. Storm goaltender Andrew Fath took it from there, stopping 10 of 11 Eagles' shots in the third period.
The Storm (4-2) meet the Northern Lakes Lightening today in the round-robin format.
Goals by Isaac Berens and Tanner Picht put MBA in front 2-1 after one period. Mac Beyer upped the Storm lead to 4-1 on back-to-back goals in the first 2:03 of the second period.
The Eagles answered with two goal of their own to pull within one again before Gimberlin's shot provided a two-goal cushion into the last period.
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Fath stopped 22 shots as the Storm were outgunned, 26-17.
Morris/Benson Area 5, Red Lake Falls 4
Red Lake Falls (4-3) 1 2 1 -- 4
Morris/Benson (4-2) 2 3 0 -- 5
FIRST PERIOD - RLF: Dylan Zutz (Max Martocq) 3:08 ... MBA: Isaac Berens (Tyler Hansen) 5:41 ... MBA: Tanner Picht (Mac Beyer, Hansen) 5:59
SECOND PERIOD - MBA: Beyer (Picht) 1:07 ... MBA: Beyer (Picht, Jake Huston) 2:03 ... RLF: Martocq (Andy Jahnke, Zutz) 2:13 ... RLF: Garrett Schmitz (unassisted) 10:44 ... MBA: Brody Gimberlin (Ethan Ratliff-Crain, Kelly Engquist) 13:31
THIRD PERIOD - RLF: Zutz (Jahnke, Schmitz) 16:11
GOALIE SAVES - Red Lake Falls: Wyatt Casavan 12 ... Morris/Benson Area: Andrew Fath 22
