For their first hockey game of the year, the Monroe Avalanche Co-op team traveled to Sparta on Saturday, November 19th, to play a non-conference game. They lost to Sparta, 3-7.

In the first period, Sparta scored three goals.

Sparta started the second period by scoring another goal, but Monroe’s Tyler Johnson scored the first goal for the Avalanche. After another Sparta goal, Travis Edmunds, assisted by Jared Dillon and Tyler Johnson, scored again for the Avalanche. Sparta ended the second by scoring yet again, and the score at the end of the second was 6 to 2.

The Avalanche’s Joe W...