The Colony Knights took control early against Juneau-Douglas High School Friday night at Treadwell Arena, scoring three goals in the first period, to secure a 7-1 road victory.<\/p>\n
In the first of meeting between the teams this season, the Knights scored two shorthanded goals and outshot the Crimson Bears 35-11.<\/p>\n
“I think we just got a little caught off guard and how well (conditioned) they were,” JDHS defenseman Tyler Weldon said.<\/p>\n
Colony’s Cole Doss stopped 10 of the 11 shots he faced. Cody Mitchell and Wolf Dostal split time in between the pipes for JDHS and together stopped 28 shots total.<\/p>\n
“Credit to the Colony Knights — they’re a fast team and they were able to move the puck really well and put us on our heels for a while,” JDHS head coach Luke Adams said.<\/p>\n
Foster Riekena and Mitchell Diltz both scored in the first five minutes of the first period to give the Knights a quick two-goal lead.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears were on the power play late in the period when Tae-jean Evans snuck behind the JDHS defense to score on Mitchell and push the Knights’ lead to three.<\/p>\n
Two minutes into the second period, Evans again went behind the Crimson Bears defense. His wrist shot clanked off the right goal post — one of at least three Knights shots that rang off the goal post on the night.<\/p>\n
Midway through the second period, Colony’s Ethan Korynta found himself all alone in front of Mitchell and tallied the Knights’ fourth goal of the game.<\/p>\n
Two minutes later, Riekena came in all alone on Mitchell, whose right leg pad couldn’t catch up with Riekena’s slap shot.<\/p>\n
“I saw someone kind of backchecking me so I just wound up,” Riekena said.<\/p>\n
Minutes after Cooper Smith shot a puck off the post, the senior forward beat Dostal at 14:37.<\/p>\n
JDHS skated hard throughout the third period, and was rewarded with a Jacob Dale power-play goal. Dale received the puck just inside the blue line near the Colony bench, fixed his eyes toward the net and shot it past Doss at 10:54. It was Dale’s team-leading fifth goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Colony now improves to 10-3.<\/p>\n
“I think this year is our best bet for winning state. We’ve been progressing every year, we got three region titles already under our belt,” Riekena said.<\/p>\n
Knights 7, Crimson Bears 1<\/span><\/p>\n Colony 3 3 1 — 7<\/p>\n JDHS 0 0 1 — 1<\/p>\n First period — 1. Colony, Riekena (Smith), 0:42. 2. Colony, Diltz (Riekena), 4:49. 3. Colony, Evans (Ketchum), SH, 12:41. Penalties — Colony 3 for 6:00.<\/p>\n Second Period — 4. Colony, Korynta (Holman), 8:19. 5. Colony, Reikena (Evans), SH, 10:24. , 6. Colony, Smith (un.), 14:37. Penalties — Colony 3 for 17:00; JDHS 3 or 6:00.<\/p>\n Third period — 7. JDHS, Dale (Monsef, Bosse), PP, 10:51. 8. Diltz (Smith), 13:49. Penalties — Colony 2 for 4:00<\/p>\n Shots on goal — Colony 10-10-15 —35; JDHS 2-6-3 —11.<\/p>\n Goalies —Colony, Doss (11 shots, 10 saves); JDHS, Mitchell\/Dostal (35 shots, 28 saves)<\/p>\n Power plays — Colony 0 for 3; JDHS 1 for 8.<\/p>\n • Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n The Colony Knights took control early against Juneau-Douglas High School Friday night at Treadwell Arena, scoring three goals in the first period, to secure a 7-1 road victory. In the first of meeting between the teams this season, the Knights scored two shorthanded goals and outshot the Crimson Bears 35-11. “I think we just got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":14948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14947"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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