After a pre-season tournament that showed some promising results for the Duchesne Ice Hockey team, regular season play finally began for the Pioneers on Tuesday Night, Nov. 5.  The Pioneers took on Holt High School and came away with a 4-1 victory in fairly decisive fashion with Holt scoring their only goal late in the game.

After only 1:46 into the game, Freshman Owen Pfeffer scored the first goal of Duchesne's season off of an assist from Senior Trenton Gebben-Thompson.  Gebben-Thompson then went on to score the next two goals himself and giving himself a three point night.  The second goal came late in the first period off of a Freshman Owen Kelsey and Senior Lucas Daleo assist.  That proved to be the game winning goal.  Goal #3 came at 8:08 left in the second period off of a Senior Nick Morgan assist.

The fourth and final goal came from Senior Carson Kuhn off of an assist from Freshman Owen Kelsey and second assist from Senior Nick Morgan.

The Duchesne Defense and Freshman Goalie Braylon Douglas did all they could to try and make the game a shutout victory, but with 3:19 to go in the 3rd period, Holt finally scored on a power play goal to give them their only goal of the game.  Douglas had a great game in the net stopping 15 of 16 shots on goal for a 93.3% save percentage.

The Pioneers have two games this upcoming weekend.  They take on Liberty High School on Friday Night, Nov. 8 at 7:15pm at Wentzville Ice Arena.  The following night, Nov. 9, they host their first home game against Ft. Zumwalt West.  That game will take place at 6:15pm at The St. Peter's RecPlex.  We hope to see the stands full of Pioneer faithful.