North Stars defeat Kilppers to win third straight
The Battlefords North Stars beat the division-rival Kindersley Klippers 3-1 Friday at West Central Events Centre in Kindersley. Entering action three points behind the Klippers, the North Stars are now just a single point back of the division-lead for top spot in the Global Ag. Risk Solutions Division.
Matthias Urbanski opened the scoring Friday with his 17th of the season with just under four minutes remaining in the first period.
Capping off a nice passing play, Urbanski’s goal came to fruition after Quintin Loon-Stewardson danced the puck out in front of the Klippers’s goalmouth, only to look off the shot before dishing the puck through the seam to the back door. Urbanski, lying in wait, was then able to fire the shot home into an empty net with the goaltender lost in a net-front scramble, 1-0 Stars.
In the second period, the Klippers would tie things up just-passed the midway mark of the period, with Noah Bankowski firing home his seventh of the season. Depositing the puck off a mad scramble in front of the North Stars’ goal, begun by a Josh Fletcher wraparound bid, Bankowski would eventually be the one to cash in. The game would remain 1-1 to the end of the second.