Entering Sunday's Squirt A championship game between Osseo Maple Grove and Rosemount at the OMGHA Squirt Extravaganza the game looked to be fast and furious. Six weeks ago, OMG beat Rosemount in the semifinals of the Burnsville tournament - a game that could have gone either way. 

The game did live up to its billing for a 12 minutes and 15 seconds. In the first, OMG jumped out to a 2-0 lead on goals by Jack Kernan and Jay Ellingson. The play in the first period was as electric. Both teams with mad rushes and scoring chances. Both cheering sections were packed with screaming fans and the coaches brought their A game vocals. 

Carson Blue got the Irish on the board with a rebound to cut the Leafbirds lead to 2-1 with 1:55 to go, just 20 seconds after Ellingson scored. In a blink of an eye (or 10 seconds), OMG answered on a Landen Gunderson goal in front of the net to make the lead 3-1 after one. That goal really knocked the wind out of Rosemount heading into the break. 

What little wind they had left heading into the second Danny Nelson swiped it to start the period. The first year man-child scored two goals in 15 seconds (and almost a third on the same shift) to give OMG a commanding 5-1 lead. Rosemount wisely took a time out to try to salvage a comeback and change the pace. It took OMG only 31 seconds to get the straw that broke the camels back, Luke Sawicky score his first of three to extend their lead to five goals. 

Rosemount had fewer guns and even fewer bullets to muster a comeback from that point on. OMG ran off a pair more in the second and a pair more in the third period to skate to a commanding 10-1 win over a team that had a ten game unbeaten streak coming into Sunday night's tilt.