Red Knights survive penalty-filled affair for 4-0 win
Limesand moves into BSM top 10 with sixth career shutout.
NEW HOPE, Minn. -- Carson Limesand made 21 saves to backstop No. 16 Benilde-St. Margaret's through a game filled with 99 penalty and onto a 4-0 win at Armstrong/Cooper.
Limesand's sixth career shutout moved him into a tie for sixth on the Red Knights' career shutout list after he set a school record for freshmen last season with five shutouts.
His efforts backed BSM, which ended a two-game losing skid, as 10 of his 21 saves came in the final period, in which the Red Knights broke open a two-goal lead by scoring twice in the games final five minutes to seal the win.
The Red Knights got on the scoreboard 10 minutes, 40 seconds into the game when Nate Schweitzer carried the puck deep into right side of the Wings' zone. He then found Charlie Bischel wide open coming in from the left side and the junior winger buried his second goal of the season.
The score, however, would remain that way for nearly 20 minutes as Colin Spellman kept his team in the game with 12 saves in the opening period and 14 more in the second.
However, Blake Mesenburg made it a 2-0 game with 4:45 to play in the middle stanza.
Jackson Bisson won a faceoff in the right circle to Mesenburg, who took the puck from the right-wing boards, carried it across the top of the circle and shot through traffic for his team leading fifth goal of the season.
Charlie Warnert's second goal of the season capped BSM's 4-0 win.
Nearly a full period later, with 4:49 to play in the game when James Callahan intercepted a clearing pass by the Wings at the home blueline while on the power play. His pass to Mesenburg on the outer edge of the right circle was perfect and Mesenburg's one-time blast found the back of the net.
With 1:14 to play in the game, following a penalty to the Red Knights which created a 4-on-4 situation, Charlie Warnert won a faceoff in his own zone.
While Seamus Foley went behind the net to collect the puck, Warnert skated out of the zone and Foley's pass off the left-wing boards sent the third-year junior off to the races and his shot found its way between Spellman's pads with 62 seconds to play in the game.
Overshadowing the four-goal shutout win was the fact that officials handed out 99 minutes in penalties, resulting in 18 total power plays. BSM was 1-for-11 while the Wings were 0-for-7.
The Red Knights close out their pre-Christmas schedule when they return home, Saturday, for a 2:30 p.m. game versus Duluth Marshall.
