Friday night the Prowlers faced the Crookston Pirates in the first round of Section 8A playoffs. The game was close all night, and after one period of play the score was still 0-0, with each team having 6 shots on goal. Riley Soderstrom gave the Prowlers a 1 goal lead in the 2nd. The Prowlers outshot Crookston 10-1 in the 2nd period, but only managed to take a 1 goal lead into the 3rd period. The Pirates battled back in the 3rd and tied the game at 1. Thief River’s Chris Forney answered back for the Prowlers to go up by one again, with just over a half of period to play. Just 2 minutes later Crookston scored again to tie the game up, but that as close as they would get as Brady Meunier and Riley Soderstrom (ENG) gave the Prowlers a 4-2 win over the Pirates.
The Prowlers will face the East Grand Forks GreenWave Monday night at the Civic in EGF. The winner of this game will go on to play the Warroad Warriors in the Section 8 Championship Game.