Northern Lakes goaltender Tyler Carraway, 31, stops a shot by Prairie CenterÕs Cody Bartkowicz in hockey action Tuesday, Jan. 26, at Breezy Point Arena. Prairie Centre skated to a 3-2 win.

The Northern Lakes Lightning pounded Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 15-1 in Mid-State Conference boys' hockey action on Monday, Feb. 1, at Breezy Point Arena.

The Lighting, 11-8 overall, also played two close games in the past week defeating Two Harbors 4-3 in Crosby on Saturday, Jan. 30, and losing to Prairie Center (Long Prairie-Sauk Centre) 3-2 in Breezy Point on Tuesday, Jan. 26.

Northern Lakes travels to Bagley on Thursday, Jan. 4, and Greenway-Coleraine on Saturday, Jan. 6.

Lightning 15, Walker-H-A 1

On Monday, Feb. 1, eight players scored to lift Northern Lakes past the Wolves. Collin Burke led the scoring with a hat trick while teammate Sam Johnson had two goals and two assists.

The Lightning led 6-0 after the opening period as Jordan Severance, assisted by Alec Fitch, and Jace Goodmanson, assisted by Severance, scored in the first 5:25 of the game. Burke made it 3-0 with a goal, assisted by Johnson, at 11:12. Cody Chambers scored, assisted by Connor Chambers and Burke, to make it 5-0 just 1:18 later. Kyler Decent finished the opening-period scoring with a goal, assisted by Cody Chambers and Goodmanson, at 15:40.

Northern Lakes added four goals in the middle period. Alex Christofferson, assisted by Cody Chambers, made it 7-0 at 8:41. Brady Roy scored, assisted by Johnson, at 9:28 and then Johnson netted an unassisted goal at 12:47. Denver Monn, assisted by Decent and Goodmanson, finished the scoring in the period at the 15:32 mark.

Connor Chambers had an unassisted goal at 1:05 of the third period. Ray Nelson, assisted by Blake Demars and Jacob Box, scored to make it 12-0. Johnson tallied, assisted by Decent and Cody Chambers, at 5:16, and then Burke scored, assisted by Monn and Goodmanson at 9:42. W-H-A scored its only goal when Cole Garoutte tallied at 12:32. The Lightning came back as Burke finished the scoring, assisted by Tyler Heinlen, at 13:45.

Winning goaltender Tyler Carraway stopped five shots while Evan Wilson made 29 saves.

Lightning 4, Two Harbors 3

On Saturday, Northern Lakes fired 58 shots at the Agates' net as the Lightning rallied from a two-goal deficit with 3:12 remaining for a non-conference victory.

Jake Homick of Two Harbors opened the scoring midway through the second period before Heinlen tied it with an unassisted power-play goal with seven seconds left in the period.

Casey Fitzpatrick tallied for the Agates midway though the third period and then Two Harbors grabbed a 3-1 lead at 11:19. Northern Lakes started its comeback as Demars, a defenseman playing just his second game since coming back from an injury, scored with 3:12 remaining. Fitch and Box assisted on the goal that cut the deficit to 3-2.

The Lightning tied it with 52 seconds remaining after goaltender Joey Bergquist was pulled for an extra skater. Johnson netted the tying goal, assisted by Cody Chambers and Burke, after a scramble in front of the Two Harbors' net.

Northern Lakes triumphed 1:24 into overtime when Decent picked up the puck in the corner and had a clear path to the net and shot the puck past netminder Aaron Lee.

"Kyler had a clear lane as no one picked him up," Coach Chambers said. "It was a nice, powerful move to the net."

Lee finished with 54 saves while Bergquist stopped 19 shots.

Prairie Centre 3, Lightning 2

On Jan. 26, Cody Bartkowicz snapped a 2-2 deadlock with an unassisted goal at 5:13 of the third period.

Decent opened the scoring, assisted by Burke and Cody Chambers, at 4:18 of the first period. Prairie Center's Brady Schulzenberg tied it on the power play at 9:47 of the period.

The Lightning regained the lead when Smieja scored on the power play, assisted by Cody Chambers, at 1:55 of the second period. But Prairie Centre tied it when Cody Stewart scored at 15:07 of the period.

Northern Lakes fell behind on Bartkowicz's goal and failed to tie the game after pulling Carraway for the extra skater in the final minute.

Carraway finished with 20 saves while winning goaltender, Aaron Olson, turned aside 24 shots.