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NOW Prospects Minor Combine: Day 2

By Peter Odney, 06/14/18, 8:45PM CDT

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Second day of Combine includes ultimate frisbee championship.


Gold's Preston Holmes adjusts to contact and manages to score while being taken down on Thursday.

TCF Bank Stadium Crowns Ultimate Champions

The best contest of the second day of the NOW Prospects Minor Combine wasn't played on the ice. 

Gold 2, referring the second team comprised of Gold players that will compete together during the three-on-three portion of the combine, eked out a 7-6 overtime win over Grey 1 in the Ultimate Frisbee finals at TCF Bank Stadium.

Prior to the frisbee championship, teams Maroon and Gold completed their off-ice testing at the LumberYard in Stillwater, while Grey and White took to the ice for a series of drills, powering through the fatigue brought on by yesterday's 12-hour itinerary. The day concluded with games between Maroon and Gold and Grey taking on White. Both games are recapped below. 

Friday is the final day that the players will be skating at Ridder Arena on the Minnesota campus, with a pair of games in the early afternoon. From then on, the LumberYard in Stillwater will be the home site, with the fast-paced goal-scoring frenzy of three-on-three hockey taking over the remainder of the weekend.   


Ultimate frisbee champions, Gold 2.

Maroon 6, Gold 4

While members of Gold may have taken the top honors on the Golden Gopher gridiron, it was Maroon that skated away with a 6-4 win on the ice. 

The teams traded goals throughout the game, with Gold taking a 4-3 lead in the second half before Maroon tied the game, took the lead, and added the dagger in rapid succession. Luke Giuliani scored two goals in the win for Maroon, with another two goals coming from Lucas Kickhofel. Ryan Brothers and Brooks Cogswell each scored once in the win for Maroon, with Brothers' goal tying the game and Cogswell's cementing the victory. 

Parker Gast, Preston Holmes, Rayne Walsh and Britain Alstead all scored once for Gold, with Charlie Kalbrener and Raymond Walen each recording a pair of assists in the loss. 


Maroon's Lucas Kickhofel scores one of his three goals on Thursday afternoon.

Grey 3, White 2

Grey jumped out to a 3-0 lead over White in the final game of the day, dominating possession and finding quality shots on net every few seconds. 

The tide turned late in the game, however, and White scratched its way back into contention with a pair of goals to make the score 3-2 before Grey's defense shut the door and extinguished the comeback flame. 

All three of Grey's goals were unassisted tallies, with two of them earned by Hagen Burrows and the other by Danny Nelson. Alex Lunski and Connor Crowley were the goal-scorers for White


Hagen Burrows scored twice in Grey's win over White.


Alex Lunski, White.

Players To Watch

Luke Giuliani, Maroon 

Giuliani used his rocket of a shot to pot two goals on Thursday, and was a pest in front of the Gold net for the game's entirety. 

Andrew Earl, Gold 

Staunch defender with strong hands who protects the puck. Earned an assist in Thursday's loss. 

Hagen Burrows, Grey

Burrows scored a pair of unassisted goals on Thursday, and is the combine's top scorer with two goals and four points in two games.

Rayne Walsh, Gold

Smooth-skating forward to plays equally hard in all three zones contained his solid combine with two assists on Thursday.

Seth Klepac, White

A steady defenseman to can transition to skating backward seamlessly, Klepac rarely loses a battle for the puck in open ice.  


Luke Giuliani, Maroon.

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