Playing a nonconference opponent from Southeast Alaska gave the Kenai Central hockey team a chance to break their winless start to the season, but a slow start doomed them to a 7-0 loss Wednesday night against Juneau-Douglas at the Kenai Multi-Purpose Facility.<\/p>\n
The loss drops Kenai to 0-9 overall this year, and while the lopsided score didn’t look competitive, the Kardinals were able to skate with Juneau for most of the night.<\/p>\n
“If we had showed up for the full 45 minutes we could’ve had a chance,” said head coach Jacob Newton. “We went down early, then started to get better in the second and third.”<\/p>\n
Bill Bosse and Owen Squires each tallied two goals for the Crimson Bears, who improved to 5-3. Juneau senior goaltender Cody Mitchell earned the 16-save shutout in net.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears outshot the Kardinals 38-16, even as Kenai stayed with Juneau in the first period with an even eight shots apiece. Juneau head coach Luke Adams said the cold wafting into the open-air building helped play to Juneau’s strengths.<\/p>\n
“It’s a fast surface,” Adams said. “We like playing on cold, hard ice because puck containment is not our strength. We like using our feet and the puck can go bouncing a lot on this ice.”<\/p>\n
Juneau faces Soldotna tonight as part of a four-game road trip against the Stars and Kardinals. The Crimson Bears face SoHi at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex before playing both Kenai and Soldotna a second time on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Before they get their rematch Friday, the Kards couldn’t find a way around Juneau goalie Mitchell. On the other end of the ice, Kenai goalie Carson Koppes stopped 31 of 38 shots on goal.<\/p>\n
The Bears also stayed out of the penalty box, staying clean until committing two infractions in the third period. Kenai, a team that has stayed clean most of the year, was tagged for a pair of major penalties in the second period as Bailey Maxson was sent to the box for checking from behind and a game misconduct.<\/p>\n
Juneau capitalized on the power play with a goal off the stick of Sam Bovitz, who redirected a shot from Dalton Hoy to give the Bears a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Bosse netted the first goal of the night almost nine minutes into the first period. Evan Fabrello followed up two minutes later by knocking in a rebound, and Squires got his first of the night just 39 seconds later with a behind-the-net shot that traveled over Koppes’ shoulder, putting Juneau up 3-0.<\/p>\n
Crimson Bears 7, Kardinals 0<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneau 3 2 2 —7<\/p>\n Kenai 0 0 0 —0<\/p>\n First period — 1. Juneau, Bosse (Hoy, Lynch), 8:48; 2. Juneau, Fabrello (Frisby, Bovitz), 10:49; 3. Juneau, Squires (Lynch), 11:28. Penalties — Kenai 1 for 2:00.<\/p>\n Second period — 4. Juneau, Bovitz (Hoy), PP, 1:36; 5. Juneau, Bosse (unassisted), 2:01. Penalties — Kenai 2 for 15:00.<\/p>\n Third period — 6. Juneau, Squires (Welch), 11:03; 7. Juneau, Weldon (Burchhardt, Bovitz), 14:32. Penalties — Kenai 2 for 4:00; Juneau 2 for 4:00.<\/p>\n Shots — Kenai 8-2-6—16; Juneau 8-17-13—38.<\/p>\n Goalies — Kenai, Koppes (38 shots, 31 saves); Juneau, Mitchell (16 shots, 16 saves).<\/p>\n \u2022 Joey Klecka is a reporter for the Peninsula Clarion.<\/b><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas hockey defeats Kenai Central 7-0 on the road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":39799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222,454,127,217],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-39798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-high-school","tag-hockey","tag-juneau-sports","tag-juneau-douglas-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39798"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=39798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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