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By Ryan Lambert

Battlefords North Stars

Dewar scores late, North Stars top Broncos 5-4 at home

Oct 11, 2025 | 12:34 AM

Friday night at the Access Communications Centre between the Battlefords North Stars (3-2-0-1) and the Humboldt Broncos (6-4-0-0) was toque and mitten night.

Fans threw warm winter gear onto the ice after Adam Konowalchuk scored the first goal of the night for the North Stars. All the gear will be donated to the Battlefords District Food and Recourse Centre.

The North Stars had Braden Nienaber and Carter Geysen return from suspension, as well as Easton Adrian who made his debut after being traded to the North Stars from Humboldt.

Jacob Strizzi netted a hat trick for the Broncos including two goals in the third, adding to his league leading total of 12 in 10 games.

The Broncos got on the board first after a third effort shot from Avery Lowe got past Kaeden Serpa to make it 1-0. Konowalchuk responded with less than two minutes to go, picking up a deflected pass and scoring blocker side on Nick Kotai to tie the game at one.

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Strizzi got one back 39 second later, beating his man to the outside, cutting back in and beating Serpa to put the Broncos up 2-1 to go into the second period. Carter Geysen was the only goalscorer in the second, firing the puck top shelf past Kotai to make it 2-2.

The North Stars started the third period hot when Linken Fisher intercepted a pass and scored 12 seconds into the period, giving Battlefords the lead.

On a 4-on-3 powerplay opportunity, Jacob Strizzi took a slapshot on a loose puck and it found the net on Serpa’s glove side to tie it on Humboldt’s first powerplay goal in the month of October.

Strizzi completed the hat trick less than a minute later, on a shot from close to the corner on a near impossible angle to put Humboldt up 4-3.

Not long after that, Brock Inglis ran into Kaeden Serpa after a whistle and Sebastian Miles took exception, dropping the gloves with Inglis and wrestling him to the ground.

Kobe Sawyer got one back within the minute, intercepting a pass in the slot and a quick snapshot made its way to the back of the net, 4-4 game.

The game winner came with just over three minutes left in the game when Konowalchuk found Kaleb Dewar out front and Dewar put the puck far side on Kotai. The North Stars held on for the 5-4 win, Serpa saved 39 of the 43 shots he faced.

The North Stars head to Humboldt on Saturday night when they look to take both games of the back-to-back. The Ultra Print Services pregame show starts at 7:00, Napa Auto Parts North Stars hockey begins at 7:30 on CJNB.

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Ryan.lambert@pattisonmedia.com