Red Knights open season with convincing win over St. Michael-Albertville
Four-goal first period leads to 7-2 BSM victory.
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. -- Adam Marshall scored twice and Carson Limesand turned in a 26-save performance as Benilde-St. Margaret's opened the season with a 7-2 win over St. Michael-Albertville.
A four-goal opening period cleared the way to the victory and started when Asher Connolly converted a Marshall rebound at the game's six minutes, 25 second mark.
Three goals in a four-minute span would then put the game virtually out of reach for the visiting Knights.
Mitchell Dokman scored hist first varsity goal in his Red Knight debut when he punched in a Brady Yakesh rebound with 6:28 to play in the period.
Just 79 seconds later, Marshall got himself open in the middle of the slot and one-time a pass from behind the net by Jackson Bisson for a 3-0 lead.
With 2:02 to play in the opening frame, Yakesh and Bisson worked a give-and-go entering the offensive zone, with Yakesh taking a goalmouth feed and beating STMA's Aaron Loch for a 4-0 lead.
The Red Knights then scored the first two goals of the second period to take a 6-0 lead.
The first came on the power-play when Marshall took a cross-ice pass from Connolly and buried his second goal of the game from the right with with 5:10 to play in the middle stanza.
Forty-two seconds later, Grant Ellings got on the scoresheet when newcomer Nick Mikan had a wrap-around attempt stopped by Loch but Ellings poked home the loose puck.
Adam Marshall opened the 2020-21 campaign with a three-point performance.
The Knights slowed the home team down by scoring the final two goals of the period but Tristan Sarsland finished the scoring with 7:01 to play in the game when he took a drop pass from Ellings and scored from the middle of the slot.
The fourth-ranked Red Knights return to action, Saturday, when they host Metro West Conference rival Bloomington Jefferson in a 2:30 p.m. matinee.
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