Girls hockey: Rebels calm Storm

Moose Lake Area seventh grader Sandra Ribich scored two goals and recorded two assists in the Rebels' 4-1 win over North Shore on Tuesday, Nov. 12, in Silver Bay.

Ribich scored in each of the first two periods and led MLA to a 4-0 lead, with eighth grader Gracie Hartl and senior Jamie Benzie scoring the other Rebel goals.

Goalie Jo Wekseth made 28 saves, but North Shore senior Sydney Haugan put a puck past her late in the third period to break up the shut out.

MLA (1-1) has eight players on the team in seventh or eighth grades who played on the 12-U state championship team last winter. The Rebels have a lot of incoming talent and added depth this season, but the team will have some growing pains as younger players adjust to the varsity level.

The Rebels are next scheduled to play at Princeton at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14.

Moose Lake Area 1-2-1—4
North Shore 0-0-1—1

First period — 1. MLA, Sandra Ribich, 3:53.

Second period — 2. MLA, Gracie Hartl (Megan Hattenberger, Ribich), 5:45; 3. MLA, Ribich (Hattenberger), 6:03.

Third period — 4. MLA, Jamie Benzie (Lexi Bonneville, Ribich), 3:59; 5. NS, Haugan, 15:52.

Saves — Jo Wekseth, MLA, 28; Harper Powell, NS, 20.

1/2: Moose Lake Area girls hockey players celebrate seventh Sandra Ribich's (20) first career goal Tuesday, Nov. 12, against North Shore. Ribich would add a second goal in the Rebels' 4-1 win. (Dave Harwig / Pine Journal)

2/2: Moose Lake Area's Raechel Painovich and North Shore's Hope Ernest battle to get to a loose puck Tuesday, Nov. 12, at Silver Bay's Rukavina Arena. (Dave Harwig / Pine Journal)