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Lumberjack Cup: Championship Sunday

By Peter Odney , 12/15/19, 6:00PM CST

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2019's Peewee A and Peewee AA champions were crowned Sunday afternoon in Stillwater.


For the second time in three years, Stillwater Peewee AA captured the Lumberjack Cup title.

PWAA: Stillwater 3, White Bear Lake 2 (3OT)

With a snap of his wrist and a shudder of white nylon, Carson Kingbay lifted Stillwater to a 3-2 triple-overtime victory over White Bear Lake in the finals of the Lumberjack Cup. 

Kingbay created a small amount of separation on the game-winning goal, darting around a White Bear Lake defender and placing the puck past Bear goaltender Leo Gabriel on the short side from below the face-off dot in the White Bear Lake zone. Until that point, Gabriel had been unsolvable for the Ponies, stopping over 25 shots in a strong effort. 

Stillwater, backed by a raucous home crowd, scored the game's first two goals, one in the first period and one in the second. Scoring for the Ponies was Kingbay first and then Blake Vanek. Conrad Fondrk pulled the Bears within one late in the second, and Will Distad tied the game early in the third to send the game into a deadlock for the next 20 minutes. 

Kingbay's goal gave the Ponies the win over White Bear Lake Stillwater wanted badly, considering how the Bears defeated the Ponies 7-1 in the finals of the Big Pumpkin Peewee Invitational in October. 

Stillwater goaltenders Gavin Salazar and Huber were awarded co-Most Valuable Player Awards, a testament to the outstanding goaltending the duo provided the Ponies throughout the tournament.  


Landon Huber of Stillwater was chosen as tournament co-MVP with his goaltending pattern Gavin Salazar.

PWA: Marquette 3, Minneapolis 2 (SO)

338.3 miles separate Marquette, Michigan from Stillwater, Minnesota, and that the Jr. Wildcats of Marquette may have felt that they had that far to go to get back into Sunday's PWA championship game against Minneapolis. 

Having stepped off the ice after their 5-4 semifinal win over Osseo-Maple Grove hours before and down 2-0 to the Storm, the Jr. Wildcats clawed their way back into the game. Landon Carpenter tallied two goals to tie the game with 36 seconds to go in the second period. Carpenter's goals erased the 2-0 deficit created by the inspired play of Minneapolis forward Nick Anderson, who scored both Storm goals on Sunday. 

Back and forth the teams went in the third, each squad swinging, missing by inches, swinging again, and missing by centimeters.

Through three overtimes, the game raged on before heading to a shootout, where Marquette's Lucas Belkowksi went top-shelf for the game-winner. 

With nine goals and 11 points in five games, Marquette's Landon Carpenter was selected as the tournament's Most Valuable Player. 


Marquette Jr. Wildcats, 2019 Lumberjack Cup PWA champions.


Lucas Belkowski scores the game-winning goal for Marquette during Sunday's championship game shootout.

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