Cougars complete weekend winless

HURON -- The Aberdeen Cougars' boys hockey team came away with a tie and a loss in a weekend two-game series with Huron.

The squads played to a 1-1 overtime tie on Saturday and Huron dealt the Cougars a 6-3 setback on Sunday. Aberdeen coach Todd Wren was optimistic about what he saw over the two games.

"We played well in all three areas, defense, the neutral zone and the offensive zone," he said. "There's a lot of stuff we've been doing in practice that's starting to show up now."

Wren said despite the Cougars having more goals in the Sunday game, the team lacked the intensity it played with the night before.

"We didn't carry the intensity over from Saturday night," Wren said.

Justin Wren had a pair of goals in Sunday game. Also scoring for Aberdeen was Derek Mardian, who also assisted on two goals. In Saturday's game, Will Goumas had the Aberdeen goal.

Next for the Cougars will be a trip to Minnesota to play in a Junior Gold tournament in Wayzata, which runs Friday through Sunday.

Sunday

Aberdeen Cougars 1 1 1-3

Huron All Stars 2 3 1-6

First Period: 1, Aberdeen, Derek Mardian (Will Goumas); 2, Huron, Alex Sorben; 3, Huron, Hunter Anschutz (Tyson Glanzer).

Second Period: 4, Aberdeen, Justin Wren (Mardian); 5, Huron, Joel Davidson (Josh Sterrett); 6, Huron, Anschutz (Ryan Carlson); 7, Huron, Davidson (Sorben).

Third Period: 8, Aberdeen, Wren (Mardian); 9, Huron, Glanzer (Kyle Knouse).

Goalies: Aberdeen, Austin Toupal (30 shots, 24 saves); Huron, Mike DesLauriers (30 shots, 27 saves).

Saturday

Aberdeen Cougars 0 1 0 0-1

Huron All Stars 0 1 0 0-1

Second Period: 1, Aberdeen, Will Goumas (Zach Peters), 7:00; 2, Huron, Joel Davidson, 3:58.

Goalies: Aberdeen, Austin Hoffman (33 shots, 32 saves); Huron, Mike DesLauriers (22 shots, 21 saves).

Varsity Girls' Hockey

Watertown 4

Aberdeen 3

FARGO, N.D. -- An Aberdeen rally fell just a little short as Watertown held off the Cougars Sunday 4-3 in the third-place game from the Fargo girls' hockey tournament.

The All-Stars had a single goal in the first period and tacked on two more in the second period. Amanda Bullene's goal put Watertown up by four with 13:44 to go in the contest.

The Cougars chipped away with three goals from Abby Taffe, the final one coming with just under two minutes to play in the game. Angelina Gould notched a pair of assists for Aberdeen. Jordan Robin had two goals for the All-Stars and Lauren Beadnell had a goal and an assist.

Aberdeen had a 44-23 advantage in shots on goal, with Nikki Karst making 19 saves for the Cougars.

The Cougars host three games this weekend at the Odde Ice Arena. Friday, Watertown comes to town for a 6 p.m. game, followed by Mitchell on Saturday and Brookings on Sunday.

Aberdeen Cougars 0 0 3-3

Watertown Lakers 1 2 1-4

First Period: 1, Watertown, Jordan Robin (Paige Thiewes, Lauren Beadnell), 12:04.

Second Period: 2, Watertown, Beadnell (Jenae Olson, Kelsey Muhl), 14:09; 3, Watertown, Robin, 5:29.

Third Period: 4, Watertown, Amanda Bullene, 13:44; 5, Aberdeen, Abby Taffe (Angelina Gould), 11:26; 6, Aberdeen, Taffe (Nicole Bruemmer, A. Gould), 9:46; 7, Aberdeen, Taffe, 1:44.

Goalies: Aberdeen, Nikki Karst (23 shots, 19 saves); Watertown, Emily Little (44 shots, 41 saves).