The Hatchet hockey team faced an important GNC battle at home last Tuesday with a chance to tie Mosinee in the standings, but the visitors pulled out a 2-1 victory.
Mosinee improved to 5-2 in conference, temporarily good for second place, while Tomahawk dipped to fifth at 3-4.
“It would have been great (to win),” THS coach Jake Flohr said. “To lose a conference game that close… We could have easily won that game. It was close. You have a couple of breakdowns and you lose the game; that’s tough.
“We missed two breakaways and our goalie gave up an easy goal. They out-shot us, but we still could have easily won that game.
“But it was a good game all the way around. The kids played well.”
After the teams played the first period to a scoreless tie, Mosinee broke through with a pair of second-period tallies.
Chris Tomski broke the scoring ice with a shorthanded goal with 10:209 left, then Jacob Hrebik (A-Austin McCarthy) pushed it to 2-0 with just 25 seconds left.
Trevor Iwen pulled the hatchets back within 2-1 with 4:37 left in the game. Alex Ungerer set up the shot.
Flohr is hardly writing it off as a complete loss.
“There were definitely positives, all the way around,” he said. “The way we skated, the way we stayed out of the (penalty) box.”
Saves-THS-Evan Russo 42. MHS-Jimmy Rogers 19.