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Wilderness get a sweep

The Minnesota Wilderness had its best offensive output of the season in a weekend sweep of the Janesville Jets.

The Wilderness combined for 12 goals over the two-game series, with a 5-1 victory Friday and 7-2 win Saturday.

Jakeb Lynch led Minnesota with seven points, combining for two goals and five assists over the weekend.

This marks Minnesota’s second road sweep of the season and extends its winning streak to three games.

After Janesville opened the scoring Friday night, the Wilderness responded with five straight goals. Sullivan Miller notched the game’s first goal with 3:13 left in the first, but the Wilderness wasted little time in posting an equalizer. Noah Dziver tied the contest with his third goal of the season on the power play with 26 seconds left. Lynch assisted, along with Joey Sylvester, for the first of what would be 3 points for Lynch.

Sylvester then put the Wilderness ahead to stay with another power play tally at the 11:05 mark of the second, which was also his third of the year. Minnesota added three more goals in third period.

Seven goal scorers led the Wilderness to their highest-scoring game of the season Saturday. Jakeb Lynch added three assists for a four-point game, while Zach Homer and Noah Dziver had three-point outings with each posting a goal and two assists.

Lucas Jendek, Avery Anderson and Luke Margenau also had multipoint games, with Jendek and Anderson generating one goal and one assist, while Margenau finished with two assists.

Single goals went to Caleb Kim and Payton Struck, while Drew Beasley and Ben Roulette each finished with one assist.

Dziver and Anderson struck in the first period to give the Wilderness an early 2-0 lead.

For the second straight game, the Wilderness put more than 40 shots on the Janesville net, as Minnesota finished with a 41-39 shot advantage. Erickson won his third straight game, making 37 saves.

Lynch was named the Midwest Division’s Star of the Week for his weekend performance.

The Wilderness host Kenai River this weekend with 7:15 p.m. games Friday and Saturday at Northwoods Credit Union Arena.

 
 
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