The Grand Forks Border Bruins couldn’t hold onto an early two-goal lead, falling 5-2 to the Beaver Valley Nitehawks on Tuesday.
Grand Forks started strongly, with Hayden Evans opening the scoring at 7:30 of the first period. Dekkam Dallas and Gavin Davis picked up the assists.
Hunter Paterson doubled the Border Bruins’ advantage at 17:13, converting a setup from Evans and Keegan Bailey to make it 2-0.
Beaver Valley cut the deficit to one with 20 seconds remaining in the opening period when Blaine Nelson beat Grand Forks goaltender Cole Fox.
The Nitehawks pulled even at 9:22 of the second on a goal from David Ross, sending the teams into the third period tied 2-2.
Grand Forks held Beaver Valley off until Jackson Rendall scored on the power play at 10:59 of the third to give the Nitehawks their first lead.
Beaver Valley extended the advantage just 57 seconds later when Niklaas Braaksma made it 4-2.
Felix Hawryluk added an unassisted goal at 17:27 to complete the scoring.
The Border Bruins were outshot 34-24 and went scoreless on three power-play opportunities. Beaver Valley finished one-for-three with the man advantage.
Fox stopped 29 of 34 shots for Grand Forks, while Beaver Valley goaltender Kayd Mercier made 22 saves in the 5-2 win.
