Lake forward Bailey Coe (Otsego senior) cuts through traffic during her team’s 7-1 loss to Clay at Tam-O-Shanter Saturday. The night before, Coe scored five goals in leading Lake to a 10-1 victory over Toledo Whitmer. (Lee Welch|Sentinel-Tribune)
SYLVANIA — The Lake club hockey team’s run for a third straight Northwest Hockey Conference White Division championship is in jeopardy after losing to Clay, 7-1, Saturday at Tam-O-Shanter.
Clay, which is 23-3-1, has a stranglehold on the White Division after completing a season sweep of Lake.
The Eagles are 6-0 in the division with games against Sylvania Southview and Toledo Whitmer remaining. Clay is guaranteed at least a White Division co-championship and will win the regular season title outright with one point in their last two White games.
Lake, 10-9-1 overall and 4-2 in the White Division, got its only goal Saturday from sophomore forward Mason Jardine (Patrick Henry) on assists from junior forward Boden Stoller (Defiance) and junior defenseman Alexa Urbanyi (Northwood) with 12:32 remaining, but Clay had already built a 5-0 lead at that point.
Jardine’s goal was the 100th scored for Lake this year, while the Craig Horvath-coached team has given up just 59. Horvath’s assistant coaches are Ron Kenney and David Jardine.
For Clay, which outshot Lake, 39-21, Grady Minnick had two goals and three assists, Kert Xander scored twice, Brady Cook and Andrew Schrauder had one goal and one assist each, Luke Tigemeyer scored a goal, and Sean Beavers Jr. and Owen Seger had one assist each.
Noah Schacht got the win in goal for the Eagles, getting 20 saves, and junior goalie Ian Schwab (PH) had 32 saves for Lake.
On Friday in a White Division game at Tam-O-Shanter, senior forward Bailey Coe (Otsego) scored five times as Lake routed Whitmer (3-20, 2-5), 10-1. Lake outshot the Panthers, 49-13.
Freshman forward Colin Rasmusson (Bowling Green Christian) had two goals and three assists, Mason Jardine scored twice and Stoller had one goal and two assists.
Lake senior forward James Bickley (Milan Edison) had four assists and Urbanyi, sophomore defenseman Aiden Buehrer (Wauseon), senior forward Ashton Graham (Springfield), and senior defenseman Dallas Staton (Eastwood) had one assist apiece. Schwab got the win in goal.
Whitmer’s goal was scored by center Nolan Wyges and assisted by Jordan Fielding.
Other Lake players are senior defenseman Luke Vida (Whiteford, Mich.), junior defenseman Kolton Nowicki (Lake), sophomore defenseman Aidan Doll (Springfield/Penta), senior forward Jacob Harder (Whiteford), freshman forward Vinny Slack (Eastwood), sophomore forward Spencer Varnes (Toledo Central Catholic), and sophomore goaltender Alan Horton (Toledo St. Francis).
