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WESTON – Cole VanSlyke scored the game-winner with 27 seconds to go to lift the D.C. Everest boys hockey team to a 4-3 win over Marshfield in a Wisconsin Valley Conference contest Tuesday at the Greenheck Fieldhouse.
Cashton Anderson had a goal in the first period for Marshfield, which then fought back from a 3-1 deficit to tie the game in the second period on goals by Blake Meissner and Connor Stefanski before VanSlyke netted the go-ahead goal in the closing minute.
Cole Kenney had two assists for the Tigers (0-5, 0-2 WVC).
Griffen Bunnell made 18 saves in goal for D.C. Everest (5-1, 2-0 WVC), while Marshfield goalie Rahul Dissanayke finished with 34 saves.
Marshfield hosts a nonconference game against Oshkosh on Thursday.
Evergreens 4, Tigers 3
Marshfield 1 0 2 – 3
D.C. Everest 2 1 1 – 4
First period: 1. DC, Ethan Whitmore (Braxton Beiler), 8:22; 2. M, Cashton Anderson (Joey Cashmer, Cole Kenney), pp., 15:32; 3. DC, Thomas Passineau (Whitmore), 15:51.
Second period: 4. DC, Hayden Johnson (Charlie Strogel, Brayden Myska), 6:28.
Third period: 5. M, Blake Meissner, 7:59; 6. M, Connor Stefanski (Kenney), 11:15; 7. DC, Cole VanSlyke (Adam McKaig, Johnson), 16:33.
Saves: M, Rahul Dissanayke 34; DC, Griffen Bunnell 18.
Records: Marshfield 0-5, 0-2 Wisconsin Valley Conference; D.C. Everest 5-1, 2-0 Wisconsin Valley Conference.