lodeau said. “He could’ve shot ….

lodeau said. “He could’ve shot it, there was no question. He was one-on-one with the goalie. The pass was perfect to Gage. Gage had the composure to score. It was a great link-up play. Those are the things we try to coach and instill in these guys.”

Tlusty was fouled in the box at 49:09 and converted the penalty kick. Rudolph created his own shot and scored from 15 yards out at 54:10. Defenseman Braeden Long closed the scoring with his first varsity goal with 25 seconds left in the game, lobbing in a shot from 24 yards.

“I think I was jumping up and down on the sidelines just as much as the guys were,” Bilodeau said. “What’s cool about that though is, going back to the unselfishness of this team, Quinton was playing wing and he was telling Braeden to move up. If you want to try to score, move up. Quinton had a goal and an assist tonight. It was nice to see him say Braeden go up there and try to score.”

Medford 8, Antigo 2

Tlusty recorded a hat trick and Rudolph scored twice in Medford’s 8-2 blowout win at Antigo Thursday in Great Northern Conference play.

The Raiders jumped ahead of the Red Robins with three first-period goals and then broke it wide open by scoring twice in the first four minutes of the second half.

The result kept Antigo winless in GNC play. The Red Robins are 0-9 head- ing into tonight’s finale at Rhinelander, though they are 5-15 overall.

Silas Wipf got the scoring started just 6:44 into the contest and Tlusty followed with his first goal at the 8:31 mark. Gage Neubauer got goal number three at 26:03.

Tlusty’s goal just 1:27 into the second half, followed by Rudolph’s score at 43:17 made it 5-0. Vincent Seidel had the assist on Rudolph’s goal. Tlusty assisted on Ru- dolph’s second goal of the night, which came at 53:23.

The Red Robins cut into that lead a bit, getting con- secutive goals from Wes Ebel and Trevor Walbeck. But Tlusty capped his hat trick in the 74th minute and Felix found the back of the net in the 79th minute to put it away.

Jake Dassow played the first half in net for the