CEC girls hockey team rallies to beat Bemidji

The Cloquet-Esko-Carlton girls hockey team used a big rally to split its two games this week and improve to 8-9-1 on the season.

On Saturday, the ’Jacks fell 3-1 to White Bear Lake in a game played in Vadnais Heights.

White Bear Lake’s Samantha Hanson and Crysta Lowell staked the home team to a 2-0 first period lead before a scoreless second period.

Lowell then made it 3-0 in the third, before Jessie Ryan scored a power-play goal in the last minute of the game to spoil the shutout bid of Bears goaltender Angie Hall.

For the game, the ’Jacks were outshot 24-17, with Alyssa Acheson making 21 stops for CEC.

That set up Tuesday night’s game against Bemidji.

The visiting Lumberjacks grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first period before the home Lumberjacks reeled them in.

Casey Miller’s power-play goal made it 1-0 before Bemidji’s Amanda Hunt made it 2-0 just under three minutes later.

Yet CEC came roaring back in the second period, with Kalie Shevich’s shorthanded goal at 2:32 cutting the arrears to 2-1. Emily Gustafson’s power-play goal at 10:29 tied the game and Dalyce Gustafson’s goal at 13:43 was the eventual game winner.

For the game, Bemidji outshot CEC 28-25 but Katie Beckman made 26 stops, including 17 after the first period, for the win.

CEC hosts Grand Rapids-Greenway on Thursday night and Proctor-Hermantown-Marshall next Monday.

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