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Jaxon Steele
Jayna Stoudt
9
Winner Mount Royal MRU
2
Regina REG
Winner
Mount Royal MRU
9
Final
2
Regina REG
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 0 F
Mount Royal MRU 4 5 0 9
Regina REG 2 0 0 2

Game Recap: Men's Hockey |

Cougars defeated twice by No. 5 Mount Royal

Jaxon Steele leads U of R with two-goal performance in Friday's setback

QUICKLY
  • The University of Regina's men's hockey team was defeated twice at home to No. 5-ranked Mount Royal over the weekend, losing 9-2 to MRU on Friday and 12-1 on Saturday.

FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Mount Royal got on the board first with a Tristan Zandee goal four minutes in.
  • Regina's Jaxon Steele scored on consecutive shifts shortly after Zandee's opener to give the Cougars the lead. Steele first pounced on an errant pass in the slot and snapped a shot by MRU goalie Shane Farkas, then collected a rebound off a Carter Belitski shot from the point and scored his seventh of the season to put Regina up 2-1.
  • Mount Royal quickly replied with three goals before the first intermission to take a 4-2 lead into the break as Vaughn Watterodt tied it up and Josh Tarzwell scored twice.
  • MRU all but put the game away with three power play goals in the first six minutes of the second. Clay Hanus had two of them with Zandee scoring the other, and both Jayden Wiens and Connor Bouchard also scored to put MRU up 9-2 through 40 minutes.
  • Mount Royal held a 15-4 shot advantage in the third period, but Justen Maric - who had come on in relief of Damon Cunningham for the final stanza - stopped all 15 shots for the Cougars.

SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS
  • The teams traded early goals as Watterodt opened the scoring for Mount Royal before the Cougars tied it up. Jaren Brinson made a nice play to break up an MRU rush and sent it up to Paycen Bjorklund, who went in on a 2-on-1 with Cole Wirun. Bjorklund elected to shoot and rifled a shot past Mount Royal's Ethan Buenaventura for his third of the season.
  • The score stayed deadlocked at 1-1 until the midway point of the second period. Mount Royal got three quick goals, the first two by Spencer Moe and the third by Zandee, to go up 4-1 at the second intermission.
The third period was all Mount Royal as they scored eight in the final 20 minutes. Justin Lies had three of those goals while Kyle Walker, Tarzwell, Bowden Singleton, Blake Stevenson, and Alex Izyk also scored.

NEXT UP
  • The Cougars will now prepare for a home-and-home with Saskatchewan next weekend. They'll play the No. 3-ranked Huskies in Saskatoon on Friday before returning to The Co-operators Centre in Regina for a matchup on Saturday night.
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