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Calumet forward Ben Anderson glides to a faceoff while giving instructions to his teammates during a game against University of Detroit Jesuit Friday at the Calumet Colosseum. (Paula Porter\/For the Gazette)<\/p>\n
CALUMET \u2014 Co-captain Nathan Londo scored back-to-back hat tricks to help lead the Calumet Copper Kings hockey team to a pair of wins this past weekend over the University of Detroit Jesuit Cubs at the Calumet Colosseum. Calumet won the opener, 6-4, before rolling to an 8-2 win Saturday.<\/p>\n
With the wins, the Copper Kings have won six in a row and seven of their last eight to improve to 13-4-1 on the season<\/p>\n
Copper Kings 6, Cubs 4<\/p>\n
The Copper Kings scored five goals in the first two periods and held the Cubs in check in the third period to earn a 6-4 win.<\/p>\n
Londo scored back-to-back goals in the second period at 4:09 and again at 6:51 to put Calumet up 4-2 at the time. His first goal was assisted by co-captain Erik Loukus and senior defenseman Drake Niemela. Londo\u2019s second goal was assisted by senior defenseman Robert Loukus.<\/p>\n
Londo\u2019s hat trick goal was deposited into the empty net with just seven seconds left in the contest. His 19th goal of the season was assisted by Erik Loukus.<\/p>\n
Calumet got on the board first in the game when junior forward Josh Asiala scored his second goal of the season at 4:20. Senior forward Rogan Gronlund and junior forward Kaden Cronenworth both earned assists on the goal.<\/p>\n
Junior forward Luke Hamlin made it 2-0 Copper Kings just 1:32 later when he scored his seventh of the season. Robert Loukus and alternate captain Ben Anderson both picked up assists on the goal.<\/p>\n
The Cubs scored the game\u2019s next two goals, first by Teo Mosera at 6:58 of the opening frame and by Zach Barringer just 3:05 into the second period on the power play.<\/p>\n
After Londo\u2019s back-to-back tallies, Hamlin scored his second of the night, and the goal that stood as the game-winner, at 8:11. Junior defenseman Jax Carlson and Robert Loukus assisted on the goal.<\/p>\n
Mosera closed the second period with his second of the game at 10:20 to make it 5-3 Calumet.<\/p>\n
Will Balasia cut the lead to 5-4 when he found the net at 13:28 of the third period.<\/p>\n
Junior goaltender Beau Jukuri made 14 saves to earn the win.<\/p>\n
Copper Kings 8, Cubs 2<\/p>\n
The Copper Kings scored three in the first, one in the second and then four times in the third period to earn an 8-2 win over the Cubs Saturday.<\/p>\n
Londo scored a natural hat trick in the third period as part of the four-goal outburst by Calumet.<\/p>\n
His first came at 6:53 and was unassisted. He struck again at 10:38, this time set up by Erik Loukus and junior forward Brady Boberg. Finally, he scored again at 13:28 for his 22nd of the season. The goal was assisted by Boberg and Erik Loukus.<\/p>\n
Erik Loukus capped the game\u2019s scoring when he struck with 1:19 left. Londo and Boberg were both credited with assists on the goal, Loukus\u2019 seventh of the year.<\/p>\n
Cronenworth got Calumet on the board in the first period by scoring just 1:52 into the game. His second goal of the season was assisted by senior forward Nathan Keranen.<\/p>\n
Boberg scored his eighth of the year at 5:58 to put Calumet up 2-0 at that point. Erik Loukus and Carlson both earned assists.<\/p>\n
Anderson scored shorthanded at 10:34 to put the Copper Kings up 3-0. Londo picked up the lone assist on the play.<\/p>\n
Mosera made it 3-1 just 3:32 into the second, but Boberg struck again at 12:19 to put the Copper Kings up 4-1 going into the final frame. Senior defenseman Ted Pennala earned an assist on the goal.<\/p>\n
Grayson Meyer scored for the Cubs 6:41 into the third before Calumet\u2019s Londo took over the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n
Jukuri made 13 saves to earn the win.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Calumet is home again Tuesday, when they host Negaunee at 6 p.m. at the Calumet Colosseum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calumet forward Ben Anderson glides to a faceoff while giving instructions to his teammates during a game against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[52185,52184,5,1246],"class_list":{"0":"post-417421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-copper-kings-hockey-shuts-down-cubs","9":"tag-copper-kings-hockey-shuts-down-cubssports","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-local-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115926160466940938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}