High School Sports

South, Eagle River battle to 2-2 hockey tie

A scoreless third period and a scoreless overtime left South and Eagle River tied 2-2 Thursday in a Cook Inlet Conference hockey game at Ben Boeke Arena.

Eagle River took a 1-0 lead on Brandon Lajoie's first-period goal. South came back with two goals in a three-minute span from Kylar Gutierra and Patrick Rush.

Eagle River answered with Joshua Linn's game-tying goal 43 seconds after Rush knotted the score, and that was the end of scoring.

South outshot Eagle River 9-5 in the third period and 5-4 in overtime. Hannah Hogenson made 22 saves for South and Ryan Gray had 34 for Eagle River.

In nonconference action, Wasilla beat West 4-2 in Wasilla.

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