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Wednesday, April 14, 2004
Sun Valley Junior Hockey team members on the championship Idaho team were, from left, Austin Grill, Hank Mason and Morgan Pike. Courtesy photo
Surprise from Idaho: Peewees win in Northern Plains
Three SV skaters on champs
North Dakota had a surprise, and it came from Idaho.
The Northern Plains Hockey Tournament gathered some of the best youth hockey teams from across the northern U.S and southern Canada April 2-4. Representing Idaho was a carefully selected team of 14 AA players from Idaho Falls, Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Sun Valley.
The Idaho AA team ended up surprising everyone and leaving Minot, N.D. with a 3-1 record and the Northern Plains Championship.
Hank Mason, Austin Grill and Morgan Pike represented Sun Valley by forming the most dominant scoring line of any team in the tournament. Their line combined for 8 goals and 7 assists including a Grill hat trick against South Dakota.
The weekend started slowly for the Idaho team with a 5-2 warm-up loss to an older team from Minot. Mason and Pike provided the only Idaho goals.
In game two, though, Idaho began to get their feet and deliver hard checking with speed and agility. In the 7-1 win over Southern Manitoba, Pike and Grill each had a goal with Mason assisting both scores.
Game three was a comfortable 4-2 win over South Dakota featuring Grill’s hat trick plus an insurance goal from Pike. It carried Idaho directly to the tournament championships.
In the title bout, Idaho faced a tough, select team from Eastern North Dakota. Idaho believed in miracles that day and, on Mason’s go-ahead goal off a great Pike feed, skated to a 5-2 victory.
Overall, the weekend is best surmised by a Manitoba mother who said—"remind me not to go to Idaho to play hockey." Grill had 4 goals and 2 assists, Mason 3/3 and Pike 2/2.
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