Tyden Bergeson and the Moorhead Spuds are one win away from back-to-back state titles.

The senior forward and Mr. Hockey finalist finally got his team on the board when he scored with 15:55 remaining in the third period Friday night to break a scoreless deadlock. Moorhead then added two more goals down the stretch to beat Edina 3-1 in a Class 2A state semifinal at Grand Casino Arena.

The Spuds (26-3-1) take on Minnetonka (26-2-2) at 7 p.m. Saturday. The Skippers defeated Rosemount 4-3 in overtime in Friday’s other semifinal.

Minnetonka handed Moorhead one of its only three losses, winning 4-2 when the two teams met in the regular season on Dec. 20.

The Spuds and Edina met in the Class 2A semifinals last season, a game Moorhead won 4-3, and again in this season’s opener on Nov. 21 – a game the Spuds won 6-3.

Friday, though, neither team got on the board through the first two periods. Moorhead junior Max Cullen appeared to break the stalemate with 4:42 to play in the second, but the goal was disallowed on review.

The Spuds had a 4-on-3 advantage to end the second period and at the start of the third. That expired, but on the four-on-four with another delayed penalty on Edina resulting in an extra attacker, Bergeson scored to put his team in front.

Junior Zac Zimmerman and senior Michael Herman followed with goals of their own. Edina got a late goal from senior Alex White with 1:15 remaining, but it is Moorhead returning to the 2A title game. The Spuds defeated Stillwater 7-6 for the first state championship in program history a year ago.

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The St. Thomas men’s hockey team had to rally to avoid being upset by Lake Superior State in the opening game of the CCHA Mason Cup quarterfinals on Friday night at the Lee & Penny Anderson Arena in St. Paul.

Caige Sterzer and Ryan O’Neill staked the second-seeded Tommies (19-11-5) to a 2-0 lead after one period. However, the seventh-seeded Lakers (11-21-3) stormed back for three goals in the middle frame.

The score remained 3-2 in favor of the visitors until O’Neill recorded his second tally of the night at 11:50 of the third to send the game into overtime, where Chase Cheslock saved the game for the hosts with the game-winning tally at 7:51 of the first added session.

St. Thomas goalkeeper Carsen Musser made 22 saves, while Lakers netminder Rorke Applebee was busy with a 36-save performance.

The two teams take the ice for Game 2 at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Anderson Arena. If necessary, a deciding Game 3 is slated for 5 p.m. Sunday.

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Rising from the ashes of a 7-1 loss to Michigan State Thursday night, the Gophers men’s hockey defeated the Spartans in a shootout after forging a 3-3 tie with the second-ranked team in the nation inside the 3M Arena at Mariucci on Friday.

Minnesota (12-21-2 overall, 8-15-1 Big Ten) took the initial lead on a goal by Brodie Ziemer at 6:11 of the first period. However, Michigan State (25-8-1, 16-7-1) countered with the next three scores to take a 3-2 advantage at 4:34 of the third period.

However, the Gophers climbed out of the hole to forge a tie on goals by Beckett Hendrickson and Mason Moe to send the game to a scoreless overtime session and a shootout to wrap up the regular season.

Minnesota’s Mooney and Javon Moore scored in the shootout, with Moore’s second-round tally standing as the winner as Gophers goaltender Luca Di Pasquo turned away MSU’s final two shootout efforts to secure the victory.

Di Pasquo, who made 30 saves, didn’t start the game as senior Zach Wiese played the first 99 seconds of the contest. Wiese made the team’s first save before giving way between the pipes on Senior Night.

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Sophomore Cash Hardie’s goal with 4:11 left in the first overtime lifted Minnetonka past Rosemount 4-3 in a Class 2A state semifinal Friday night at Grand Casino Arena, despite a 41-save performance from Irish goaltender Drew Sherman.

The Skippers (26-2-2) advance to meet the winner of Friday night’s late semifinal between Moorhead and Edina for the state championship at 7 p.m. Saturday. Minnetonka is back in the title game for the first time since winning the Class 2A championship in 2023.

The loss stopped the second state tournament run in Rosemount program history just short of the championship game. The Irish (24-5-1) — who will play for third place at 4 p.m. Saturday at Grand Casino Arena — advanced to the title game in the first year of the two-season Tier II tournament in 1992. Teams during those two seasons were assigned to Tier I and II based on regular-season performance.

Rosemount goaltender Drew Sherman (1) deflects a shot by Minnetonka in the second period of a Class 2A semifinal game of the State Boys Hockey Tournament at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul on Friday, March 6, 2026. (Craig Lassig / Special to the Pioneer Press)

The two-class system began in 1993-94.

It marked the second overtime game in as many days for the Irish, who beat Grand Rapids 3-2 in OT in the quarterfinals Thursday afternoon.

Both teams had plenty of chances in the opening period, finishing with 12 shots-on-goal apiece.

But Rosemount struck first early when senior forward Quinton VeDepo had a shot blocked by Minnetonka goalie Chase Jerdee. As the loose puck floated in front of the net, senior forward Peter DeGroot swooped in to score, putting the Irish on top 1-0 with 14:42 to play.

That was where the goals ended in the first period, but they came fast and furious during an under-four-minute stretch of the second.

Irish junior Connor Schubert fired off a long-range shot to score with 12:58 remaining before Skippers senior Ethan Sturgis answered exactly one minute later, cutting the Rosemount lead to 2-1.

The Irish again expanded their margin to two when senior Cade Sherman scored 19 seconds into a Rosemount power play. But Minnetonka responded once more on an unassisted goal by sophomore Mason Schemenauer from inside a crowd in front of the Irish net, trimming the gap to 3-2 with 9:11 still to play before the intermission.

The Skippers held a 17-6 edge in shots-on-goal in the period, but the Irish again took a one-goal lead into the third.

That changed when Sturgis tied things up on his second goal of the night with 14:15 remaining in regulation. But neither team scored from there, sending the game to overtime and setting the stage for Hardie’s heroics.

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