The Alpena Wildcats traveled tot he I.C.E. Arena in Mt. Pleasant to take on the young Oilers in a Friday night showdown. Alpena has a strong tradition and quite a following back home, the game was even televised live on the local Alpena radio station.
The Oilers wasted little time thought showing the Wildcats that they meant business. The scoring opened up just five minutes in to the game when Josh Watters took a nifty pass from Freshman Robert Backus and buried it in to the net. Senior Ryan Heeke was also credited with an assist on the first goal.
Just sixty one seconds later Mt. Pleasant added to their lead when Junior Eric Delorenzo took a pass from Senior Coddy Yazzie and quickly moved it to Sophomore Nick Coscarelly who scored to make it 2-0 Mt. Pleasant.
The heavy hitting affair saw several penalties handed out to each team and the scorekeeper was kept busy writing names down in the penalty column.
In the second period Mt. Pleasant added another goal as Senior Josh Watters returned the favor to his buddy Ryan Heeke who found the net on a great bing bang passing play. The goal gave Mt. Pleasant a 3-0 lead heading in the the final period.
The third period was marred by a fight and again several penalties. but Mt. Pleasant added another goal from Sophomore Nick Coscarelly with assists going to Senior Cody Yazzie and Junior Chris Yoder.
Junior netminder Derek D'Artangnan lost his bid at a shutout with just 1:50 to go in the game as Alpena had an extra attacker and were able to get one past the Oiler goalie. D'Artangnan ended the game with 25 saves.
The Oilers held on to a 4-1 victory to improve to 5-5-1 and will next face Swan Valley at home on the 19th at 7:00 PM.
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