Watertown, SD — Second year forward Kyle Greene burst through offensively this weekend to help propel the Watertown Shamrocks to their first divisional sweep of the season.
The Shamrocks squared off this weekend against the St. Cloud Norsemen for the first time this season. Coming off a Halloween night win over the Minot Minotauros the weekend before where the offense snapped out of a slump, the Shamrocks scored five more goals on Friday night to overcome an early deficit.
Greene assisted on the Shamrocks’ first goal of the night, in what would be a preview of more to come from the now leading scorer for Watertown, to tie the game at 1-1 in the first period.
Facing a 2-1 deficit after the first period, Andrew Smulkstys and Stefans Rots would score in the second period to give the Shamrocks a lead. Then, Greene would make an impact again in the third period, assisting on Justin Obrochta’s game winning goal in and burying an empty-net goal in a 5-3 win on the front end of the home-and-home series.
On the road on Saturday, the Shamrocks, once again led by Greene, secured their first divisional sweep of the year with a 4-3 win in St. Cloud.
Greene was once again dominant offensively as he assisted on all four of the Shamrocks’ goals. Owen Chartier scored first to give Watertown a 1-0 lead before St. Cloud clawed back for a 2-1 advantage midway into the second period.
Roy Chung scored his second goal of the season to tie the game at 2-2. Kirill Borodulin would follow it up with a late power play goal to give Watertown a 3-2 lead with just six seconds left in the period.
The two sides exchanged goals in the third period as the Shamrocks collected their third straight win to improve to 8-6-2-0 overall.
Over the weekend, Greene scored or assisted on seven of the teams’ nine goals. He now leads Watertown with 16 assists and 18 points. He was named the Central Division Second Star of the Week by the league for his performance.
Watertown is off this weekend, their only off weekend of the season, and will return to action at home on November 20 and 21 against the Austin Bruins for Military Appreciation Weekend.