BISMARCK - Keaton Leininger's hat trick helped Bismarck Century force overtime en route to a 6-5 shootout victory against Fargo North in the North Dakota boys hockey opener for both teams Friday.
Alex Samek scored two goals for the Spartans.
FIRST PERIOD: 1, BC, Flicek (Brown, Trzycilla) 11:30. 2, BC, Leininger (Huber) 16:20. 3, FN, Samek (Helming) 16:47.
SECOND PERIOD: 4, FN, Klein (Helming) 3:04. 5, BC, Leininger 6:22. 6, BC, Leininger (Heintz) 6:29. 7, FN, Graalum (Melhoff) 6:50. 8, FN, Helming 7:34. 9, BC, Smrekar (Voss, Johnson) 14:44.
THIRD PERIOD: 10, FN, Samek (Helming) 4:23.
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OVERTIME: No scoring.
SHOOTOUT GOALS: Not available.
SAVES: FN, Toussaint 11-11-7-4-33. BC, Abfulter 6-7-8-4-25.
