MONROE - Baraboo-Portage's Steven Mordini scored four goals to power the Thunderbirds to a 15-0 win over the Monroe boys hockey co-op Friday night at the SLICE Arena.
Baraboo-Portage's Gage Hill also recorded a hat trick.
Baraboo-Portage improves to 7-2, 2-0 Badger North, while Monroe drops to 0-5, 0-1 Badger South.
"We knew this was going to be a tough game," Monroe Avalanche coach Josh Smith said. "Baraboo has already beaten Edgewood, who is usually our conference leader, and we were expecting tough opponents."
Mordini scored two goals in the first period to help the Thunderbirds race out to a 3-0 lead. The Thunderbirds broke the game open with four goals in the second period to take a 7-0 lead.
The Thunderbirds entered the game averaging 6.7 goals per game.
The Thunderbirds outshot the Avalanche 75-6.
"We have been working on a new forechecking system the past two weeks and it was paying off some, but when we made positional mistakes it really hurt us," Smith said. "That is to be expected. We wanted to use this game as our best test to work out the kinks, see where we need to fix things and look for issues that may arrive. We played with them for a period and a half and but then we started making too many mistakes and getting in our own heads and the game got away from us."
Avalanche goalie Dan Guilliams had 60 saves.
Baraboo-Portage's Gage Hill also recorded a hat trick.
Baraboo-Portage improves to 7-2, 2-0 Badger North, while Monroe drops to 0-5, 0-1 Badger South.
"We knew this was going to be a tough game," Monroe Avalanche coach Josh Smith said. "Baraboo has already beaten Edgewood, who is usually our conference leader, and we were expecting tough opponents."
Mordini scored two goals in the first period to help the Thunderbirds race out to a 3-0 lead. The Thunderbirds broke the game open with four goals in the second period to take a 7-0 lead.
The Thunderbirds entered the game averaging 6.7 goals per game.
The Thunderbirds outshot the Avalanche 75-6.
"We have been working on a new forechecking system the past two weeks and it was paying off some, but when we made positional mistakes it really hurt us," Smith said. "That is to be expected. We wanted to use this game as our best test to work out the kinks, see where we need to fix things and look for issues that may arrive. We played with them for a period and a half and but then we started making too many mistakes and getting in our own heads and the game got away from us."
Avalanche goalie Dan Guilliams had 60 saves.
