Puck drops on Comets’ hockey season

Home ice has not been an advantage to the Waupaca boys’ hockey team in its first two games.

One day after opening the season with a 5-0 loss to the Fox Valley Stars, the Comets dropped a 5-1 decision to Marquette on Nov. 23 at the Waupaca Ice & Expo Center.

Marquette 5,
Waupaca 1

Colin Everts scored for Waupaca less than four minutes into the game but didn’t find the net the rest of the way.

The Comets trailed the Hilltoppers 2-1 heading into the third period but gave up three goals over the final 17 minutes.

Chris Wilkensen and Joseph Schultz scored for Marquette later in the opening period.

Neither team scored in the second period, but the Hilltoppers added to their lead in the final period with goals from Mick Kaminsky, Schultz and Keegan Kowalke.

FC Stars 5,
Waupaca 0

Ryan Ostermann scored two goals for the Stars, an Appleton-based co-op team.

Parker Janesen, Preston McGinnis and Cale Adamovich added single goals for the Stars.

Waupaca will head to Wausau’s Marathon Park Tuesday, Dec. 3, for a nonconference matchup with Wausau East/Merrill before opening Great Northern Conference play two days later in Tomahawk against the Hatchets.