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By Mat Barrett

Mustangs Fall to Hawks

2019 schedule ends with Hawks defeating Mustangs

Dec 22, 2019 | 9:32 AM

The home teams were successful in this past weekends home and home set between the Melfort Mustangs and Nipawin Hawks.

After a 5-2 Mustangs win on Friday, the Hawks got their revenge on Saturday with a 2-0 win, snapping their five game losing skid.

Melfort was outshot 32-24 in the game, but Assistant Coach Trevor Logan said there were some positives.

“I’m not totally disappointed in the game,” Logan told northeastNOW. “I thought we were there, we had a chance if we get a bounce or something. But at the end of the day I think they just outworked us a little bit longer than what we put in tonight, and kudos to them.”

There was no scoring in the first period, but Austen Flaman’s seventh of the year made it 1-0 just 40 seconds into the second period on the powerplay. The teams went back and forth in the period before Jeremy Bisson made it 2-0 with just over three minutes to play in the frame.

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Melfort pressed in the third, but couldn’t get one to go. Ross Hawryluk stopped 24 shots in the win. Logan said they needed to create a bit more offensively.

“I don’t think we got enough zone time and we didn’t get enough traffic in front of Ross [Hawryluk],” Logan said. “He’s a big goalie, seemed like he saw a lot of shots, didn’t leave a lot of rebounds out there so we definitely needed a little bit more traffic.”

Shawn Parkinson stopped 30 of 32 for Melfort.

The rivals will meet again on Jan. 3 and 4 to kick off the 2020 portion of the schedule.

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