A four-goal second period blitz ended the Muskegon Lumberjacks\ three-game winning streak on Saturday night.
The game was tied 2-2 heading into the second period, then the Dubuque Fighting Saints scored the last five goals of the contest, including the only four during the second period, to defeat the Lumberjacks 7-2 in Iowa.
The Jacks are now 7-6-2 on the season, good for 16 points and third place in the USHL’s Eastern Conference. They are one point behind the Fighting Saints for second place.
Muskegon will host the first-place Cedar Rapids RoughRiders for two games next weekend at Trinity Health Arena, starting on Friday with faceoff set for 7:10 p.m.
The teams exchanged a pair of goals during the first period. Felix Farhammar opened the scoring with his third goal of the season for the Lumberjacks at the 6:31 mark, before Dubuque tied it at 8:35 with a goal by Olle Darth.
The Lumberjacks regained the lead at 2-1 with a goal at the 11:18 mark from Nicholas Kosiba which was his third of the season. The Fighting Saints once again responded, with Darth’s second goal of the contest, with just 18 seconds remaining in the opening period.
The Fighting Saints went off for four answered goals in the second period o take a 6-2 lead heading into the third. Luke Brierley (2:19), David Thomasson (7:44), Caden Dabrowski (8:22) and Joe Wahlund (17:06) each scored for Dubuque.
Dubuque closed out the scoring at 15:41 of the third period with another goal by Thomasson.
The Fighting Saints outshot Muskegon 33-26. Muskegon’s Oscar Westman suffered the loss in net, stopping 18 of 24 shots in two periods of action. Samuel Doyon-Cataquiz made eight of nine saves in one period of relief for the Jacks.
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