Anchorage Daily News

Service scored five of nine goals on the power play and cruised past Bartlett on Thursday at Ben Boeke Arena.

Derik Guzman and Tyler Mathews each scored twice, while Patrick Donlan scored and added three assists for the Cougars, who won their Cook Inlet Conference opener and improved to 4-2-0 overall.

Bartlett goaltender Steve DeBoer turned away 50 shots as the Golden Bears dropped to 1-6-0 overall, 0-2-0 CIC.

Bartlett 0 0 0 -- 0

Service 3 4 2 -- 9

First Period -- 1, Service, Strahle (Trupp), 4:38 (pp); 2, Service, Guzman (Donlan, Baines), 5:36 (pp); 3, Service, Donlan (unassisted), 14:08 (pp). Penalties -- Bartlett 3 penalties for 6 minutes; Service 1 for 2.

Second Period -- 4, Service, Sture (Lamothe), 6:25; 5, Service, Mathews (Munoz, Van Allen), 7:15; 6, Service, Coryell (Donlan, Vivian), 8:22 (pp); 7, Service, Trupp (Lamothe), 11:50 (pp). Penalties -- Bartlett 6 for 12; Service 4 for 17.

Third Period -- 8, Service, Guzman (Donlan), 1:33; 9, Service, Mathews (Van Allen, Guzman), 7:21 (pp). Penalties -- Bartlett 1 for 2; Service 4 for 11.

Goalies -- Bartlett DeBoer 15-20-15--50; Fiske 5-1-8--14.

North Pole 4, South 2

Another Fairbanks team feasted on four-time defending state champion South as North Pole beat the visiting Wolverines at Polar Ice Center.

The Wolverines took a 2-2 tie into the second period on goals from Kyle Shepherd and Brad Schierhorn.

But Hank Parra's back-to-back goals sealed North Pole's win to join Lathrop as the only non-Anchorage teams to beat the Wolverines (2-3-0).

W. Valley 5, E. River 4

Ben Henne registered a hat trick Thursday to help West Valley beat visiting Eagle River in overtime at the Big Dipper in Fairbanks.

Henne scored his second goal of the night with about two minutes left in regulation to force overtime, then scored the game winner about two minutes into the extra period.

Eagle River scorers were not provided.

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