MONROE - It took 46 seconds for Monroe to waft some smelling salts under the nose of Hudson goalie Andy Lischynski in Sunday's championship game of the WAHA 16U Midget state tournament held at SLICE.
After the Avalanche took the 1-0 lead on a crisp goal by Jamie Moats from Brayden Fritsch, the club's coach couldn't help but feel like his boys were still clicking after a 7-3 morning victory over River Valley earned a title tilt with Hudson.
"It was great, phenomenal, we felt awesome," Monroe coach Dan Moats said. "But then that was it ... there's a time you run into a goalie that's on fire."
Lischynski stopped the other 40 shots he faced and Hudson hung all three of its goals in the second period to come away with a 3-1 victory.
They did it with fundamentals, taking advantage of opportunities and playing solid hockey in front of the net.
They had to, as Monroe put 16 and 17 shots on net in the second and third period, respectively.
Michael Gross stopped 29 shots for Monroe. In Saturday's first day of round robin play, Gross stopped 33 of 36 shots as the Avalanche escaped with a 4-3 victory over Hudson by scoring three first-period goals. Gotti Brandli had the game-winner in the third and also assisted on Michael Boroczk's lamp-lighter that opened the game's scoring.
In Monroe's first game, a 6-2 runaway victory that found the 'Lanche scoring three times in the third period, Brandli had two goals while Fritsch added a pair of his own. Sean Winters stopped 28 of 30 shots faced in net.
During Sunday morning's shellacking of River Valley, Brandon Mortimer added a pair of goals to the one score and one assist he already accumulated to pile up four points over the weekend. Blueliner Jordan Steurer got in on the scoring, as well, scoring two goals from his defenseman position versus Valley.
The runner-up finish wraps up Monroe's hockey program's participation in the WAHA tournament series.
The program first earned a seventh-place finish convincingly with a 12-4 victory over Marinette in the final game the Avalanche played at a PeeWee 3A tournament in Black River Falls Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2.
The following weekend found Monroe posting fourth-, sixth- and seventh-place finishes at tournaments in Tomah, Baraboo and Green Bay, respectively. The Avalanche won their first game, 6-3 over Black Hawk, in the Tomah tourney, a Bantam 3A class ladder. Waupun survived a 4-3 overtime decision to edge Monroe for fourth.
In Baraboo, a Squirt 3A event, Monroe rebounded from a 3-1 loss to River City with an 8-2 drubbing of Somerset before falling 3-2 to Marinette in overtime in the consolation championships.
Finally, in Green Bay, a few of the 16U Midget players logged minutes with the high school club that lost two physically-taxing games before crushing Arrowhead, 10-0, to salvage seventh place.
After the Avalanche took the 1-0 lead on a crisp goal by Jamie Moats from Brayden Fritsch, the club's coach couldn't help but feel like his boys were still clicking after a 7-3 morning victory over River Valley earned a title tilt with Hudson.
"It was great, phenomenal, we felt awesome," Monroe coach Dan Moats said. "But then that was it ... there's a time you run into a goalie that's on fire."
Lischynski stopped the other 40 shots he faced and Hudson hung all three of its goals in the second period to come away with a 3-1 victory.
They did it with fundamentals, taking advantage of opportunities and playing solid hockey in front of the net.
They had to, as Monroe put 16 and 17 shots on net in the second and third period, respectively.
Michael Gross stopped 29 shots for Monroe. In Saturday's first day of round robin play, Gross stopped 33 of 36 shots as the Avalanche escaped with a 4-3 victory over Hudson by scoring three first-period goals. Gotti Brandli had the game-winner in the third and also assisted on Michael Boroczk's lamp-lighter that opened the game's scoring.
In Monroe's first game, a 6-2 runaway victory that found the 'Lanche scoring three times in the third period, Brandli had two goals while Fritsch added a pair of his own. Sean Winters stopped 28 of 30 shots faced in net.
During Sunday morning's shellacking of River Valley, Brandon Mortimer added a pair of goals to the one score and one assist he already accumulated to pile up four points over the weekend. Blueliner Jordan Steurer got in on the scoring, as well, scoring two goals from his defenseman position versus Valley.
The runner-up finish wraps up Monroe's hockey program's participation in the WAHA tournament series.
The program first earned a seventh-place finish convincingly with a 12-4 victory over Marinette in the final game the Avalanche played at a PeeWee 3A tournament in Black River Falls Saturday and Sunday, March 1-2.
The following weekend found Monroe posting fourth-, sixth- and seventh-place finishes at tournaments in Tomah, Baraboo and Green Bay, respectively. The Avalanche won their first game, 6-3 over Black Hawk, in the Tomah tourney, a Bantam 3A class ladder. Waupun survived a 4-3 overtime decision to edge Monroe for fourth.
In Baraboo, a Squirt 3A event, Monroe rebounded from a 3-1 loss to River City with an 8-2 drubbing of Somerset before falling 3-2 to Marinette in overtime in the consolation championships.
Finally, in Green Bay, a few of the 16U Midget players logged minutes with the high school club that lost two physically-taxing games before crushing Arrowhead, 10-0, to salvage seventh place.
