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The Alexandria Cardinals were able to hold off a third period push by the St. Cloud Crush and win 5-4 Tuesday night in a game that had much more meaning behind it. This game was a community opportunity to support Jack Albert, a squirt hockey player in Alexandria who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma and is currently undergoing chemo therapy. The support shown by our community for both the Girls and Boys High School games was incredible and the opportunity for our programs to be involved was amazing. The players have and will continue to wear Albert Strong #22 stickers on their helmets, green tape on their sticks along with a #22 jersey hanging on the bench to show their support for Jack.
Sophomore Leo Kompelien got the Cardinals on the board in the first period with a nice wrist shot on a 2 on 1 break. Juniors Nick Peterson and Henry Ramstorf assisted on the goal getting the puck up to Leo to do the rest. Within a minute later, St. Cloud would tie the game but Senior Josiah Gronholz responded with a nice deke in front of the net off a Tyler Kludt pass to give the Cardinals a 2-1 lead after the first period. In the second period, it was Junior Tyler Kludt scoring on the power play to add to the Cardinals lead after he received a pass from Senior Pieter Mulder, beat the defender wide and blasted a wrist shot in the top corner.
Senior Goaltender Teagan Pfeffer would also get an assist on the goal as he set the puck up for Mulder. St. Cloud would fight back and score a short-handed goal 6 minutes into the period. The Cards would respond again with a power play goal from Sophomore Gavin Olson after he received a nice backdoor pass from Josiah Gronholz. Tyler Kludt would get his
2nd goal of the game with less than a minute remaining in the period to make it 5-2. Senior Brycen Berg and Pieter Mulder received assists on the Kludt goal.
A couple costly mistakes in the third period would allow St. Cloud to pull within one goal and make the remaining 8 minutes of the game interesting but it was the Cardinals were able to pull together and get the job done. Shots on goal for the game were 31 for the Cardinals and 22 for the Crush. Teagan Pfeffer was in goal for Alexandria and made 18 saves on those 22 shots. The Cardinals head to Fergus Falls Thursday night in a crucial section game against the Otters. JV starts at 5:15 and Varsity starts at 7:00 pm.