Marquette Redmen hockey team takes out Negaunee Miners, 8-1
MARQUETTE — The goals came in bursts for Marquette and it was enough for the Redmen to take an 8-1 victory over Negaunee in a high school hockey game played at Lakeview Arena in Marquette on Tuesday night.
Despite the lopsided score, Miners goalie Nolan Corwin was credited by MSHS coach Doug Garrow for not allowing the eight-goal mercy rule to be invoked.
“Our guys were trying hard but couldn’t get that last one past him,” Garrow said. “He played a whale of a game.”
Corwin stopped 59 of the 67 shots he saw, including 28 saves in the third period.
The Redmen (12-10-2) probably smelled blood early in the third after getting four goals past the Negaunee netminder in the first 5 1/2 minutes of the period. But Corwin let no more in over the contest’s final 11 1/2 minutes.
Those third-period goals were scored by Tanner Phillips, Gaetanno Cammarata, Sterling Wright and Aydin Frost, the last three just 89 seconds apart.
Phillips finished with two goals as he got the game’s first tally about 4 1/2 minutes in unassisted.
Teammates Hunter Doucette and Rory O’Connor added goals to make it 3-0 before Negaunee got on the board when Jack Mattias scored with 47 seconds remaining in the opening period on his team’s only shot on goal that period. The Miners’ Garrett Mann assisted on the score.
Thomas Dunleavy scored Marquette’s only goal of the second period.
Sean O’Connor and Joey Phillips each had two assists, while Redmen teammates Dunleavy, Cammarata, Frost, Nick Leafers, Tony Fedrizzi and Rory O’Connor each had a single assist.
MSHS goalie Tyler Bergwall was called on to make eight saves as the Redmen held a 67-9 shots-on-goal advantage.
While Negaunee’s regular season is complete, Marquette has one more game at home against Calumet at 7 p.m. Thursday before next week’s regionals begin.
Information compiled by Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee. His email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.