Oahe Bantam A Over Mitchell 4-1

The Oahe Bantam A squad remained unbeaten in league play at 4-0 with a win at home over Mitchell 4-1 on Sunday afternoon.

The Capitals, who had scored 24 goals in their first three games, pummeled Mitchell Benjamin Colwell with 55 shots on goal for the game.  The Mitchell goalie was up to the challenge in making 51 saves to keep the game close.

Oahe got on the board first midway through the initial period when Kade McTighe scored off assists from Riggs Sanchez and Carsten Mueller.  The score remained 1-0 until the third period when Daniel Magee scored unassisted to extend the lead to two.  However, Drew Kitchens quickly tallied one for Mitchell to cut the lead to one again.  But McTighe scored again from Magee and Magee added a second unassisted goal for the final scoring of the game.

Colton Brink was relatively unchallenged in net throughout as he faced only 10 Mitchell shots on goal, stopping nine, to get his second win of the year.

Next action for the Bantam As is next weekend when they travel to Watertown on Saturday and Brookings on Sunday.

More game pictures here.

Kade McTighe

Daniel Magee

SD Bantam A State Tournament – Final Round Results

7th place  Mitchell 8 Yankton 1 — Jake Jarman hattrick and Tucker Hohn 2 goals and 2 assists for Mitchell (game photos)

5th Rushmore 8 Watertown 0 — Jacob Lindblom with 3 goals and an assist for Thunder (game photos)

3rd place  Sioux Falls West 6 Oahe 4 — Jack Olson 4 goals for West (game photos)

1st place  Sioux Falls East beats Brookings 4-3 for the championship — Sioux Falls came back from a 3-0 deficit to earn the championship victory (game photos)

Sioux Falls East – 2014 SDAHA Bantam A State Champions

SD Bantam A State Tournament – Second Round Results

Watertown defeats Mitchell 3-2 — Gage Weeks two goals for Lakers (game photos)

Rushmore beats Yankton 9-2 — Jacob Lindbloom with a hattrick and Austin Stiles 1 goal 4 assists for Rushmore (game photos)

Sioux Falls East over Sioux Falls West 2-0 — Sam Prisbe with both goals for East (game photos)

Brookings defeats Oahe 3-2 — Mason Gerstner with a goal and assist for Brookings (game photos)

Sunday’s finals:

7th place [8:00 am] Mitchell vs. Yankton

5th place [10:30 am] Watertown vs. Rushmore

3rd place [1:00 pm] Sioux Falls West vs. Oahe

1st place [3:30 pm] Sioux Falls East vs. Brookings

SD Bantam A State Tournament – First Round Results

Oahe beats Rushmore 2-1 in second OT — Zach Fendrich with unassisted game winner in second overtime (game photos)

Sioux Falls West over Watertown 7-1 — Jack Olson two goals and an assist for SF West (game photos)

Sioux Falls East over Mitchell 9-0 — Nathan Mutschelknaus with two goals and two assists (game photos)

Brookings 13 Yankton 0 — Brookings outshoots overmatched Yankton 60-5 (game photos)

Saturday games:

10:00 Watertown vs. Mitchell

12:30 Rushmore vs. Yankton

5:00 Sioux Falls West vs. Sioux Falls East

7:30 Oahe vs. Brookings

Expo Center to Host State Bantam A Hockey Tournament

The Expo Center in Ft. Pierre will be the site of this year’s SDAHA Bantam A State Hockey tournament beginning on Friday.  The SDAHA Bantam division is for players 14-15 years of age.  Scheduled first round matchups based on final league standings are:

12:00 #4 Rushmore vs. #5 Oahe

2:30 #3 Sioux Falls West vs. #6 Watertown

5:00 #2 Sioux Falls East vs. #7 Mitchell

7:30 #1 Brookings vs. #8 Yankton

Play in the single elimination tournament will continue throughout the weekend, with the championship game scheduled 3:30 on Sunday afternoon.

It should be a very exciting tournament with Brookings and the two Sioux Falls teams all finishing within three points of each other at the top of the league standings.  The hometown Capitals finished the regular season with a record of 7-6 and one overtime loss.  They will face Rushmore in the first round in what should be a competitive contest as the two teams split a weekend pair of games in Rapid City early in the season.

Photos from many of the tournament games will be posted here.