Despite a valient effort in their final pre-season Ice Hockey game in the St. Chuck Cup, the Pioneers lost to St. Dominic 5-2.  The excitement started early when Duchesne scored in the first eleven seconds of the game when Senior Logan Kelsey got the puck off of the facebook and passed to Junior Nick Morgan who got the puck ahead of all of the St. Dominic defense and scored.  The score stayed that way until late in the first period when St. Dominic evened it up.  The Crusaders then got two goals in the 2nd Period to take a 3-1 lead into the third.  In the third, Freshman Dylan Slattery scored his first goal off of assists from Junior Carson Kuhn and Freshman Austin Schoene to get the game within a goal.  St. Dominic got a goal of their own later in the 3rd period to make the score 4-2.  An attempt to pull the our goalie with 2:00 left was unsuccessful with St. Dominic netting an empty net goal to make the score 5-2 which would be the final score.  Sophomore Goalie Dillon Kuhn, despite the loss, recorded 31 saves on 35 shots.

Next action for Duchesne will be the Blue vs. White Scrimmage this Sunday, Oct. 22, at 7:10pm at Wentzville Ice Arena.  The regular season schedule for Duchesne Ice Hockey will be announced by the end of October.