The Crookston Pirate Girls Hockey team looks to survive and advance as they take on the Detroit Lakes Lakers in the first round of the Section 8A tournament. The game is currently live on KROX Radio and KROX TV.
Crookston is 6-17-1 on the season, and 2-0 against Detroit Lakes, beating them 5-4 in overtime on December 11th and 7-2 on January 24th.
FIRST PERIOD
The first period started slow until DL’s first shot on goal of the game just over 2 minutes in, which beat Abrams but hit the post. That would set up another opportunity, however, and this time Izzy Mariotti was able to bury a shot by Abrams, and this gave the Lakers a 1-0 lead. However, that momentum would be forcibly ripped away by the Pirates, as they proceeded to dominate the next 13 minutes. First, Catelyn Maruska made a great deflection for her second goal of the year to tie the game at 1. Then, Adley Vigness took over, taking the puck from the defensive zone and breaking free for a goal on two separate occasions, and all of a sudden the Pirates had a 3-1 lead. The Pirates weren’t done yet, though, as Emma LaPlante scored less than 2 minutes later to put the Pirates up 4-1. Then, in case that wasn’t enough the Pirates got on the power play, and 8th grader Christina Hershey buried the final Pirate goal of the period. The Lakers were held to just 5 shots, and the Pirates took that 5-1 lead into the 2nd period.
SECOND PERIOD
THIRD PERIOD
Crookston
| Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Final |
| Crookston | 5 | |||
| Detroit Lakes | 1 |
1st Period
3:11 – DL – Izzy Mariotti (Hadley Songstad)
5:02 – Crookston – Catelyn Maruska (Logan Brekken)
9:22 – Crookston – Adley Vigness
11:09 – Crookston – Adley Vigness
12:49 – Crookston – Emma LaPlante (Logan Brekken)
14:37 – Crookston (PP) – Christina Hershey (Adley Vigness, Keely Garrett)
2nd Period
2:02 – Crookston – Peyton Demerais (Ava Martin, Aubrey Bartrum)
3rd Period
| Goalie | 1 | 2 | 3 | Total |
| Paityn Solberg – DL | 9 | |||
| Madi Abrams – Crox | 6 |