BISMARCK — The Bottineau-Ruby boys’ hockey team wrapped up its season at the West Region tournament last week, with a win in the play-in game, before dropping its quarterfinal and consolation bracket games to finish its season at 9-13-0-2 overall and 4-13-2 in WDA play.

No. 8 Bottineau-Rugby 7, No. 8 Hazen-Beulah 3

Hazen-Beulah opened the scoring when Grant Krause found the back of the net to take a 1-0 lead. It didn’t take long for the Braves to answer though. A minute later, Will DeMontigny scored the first of his two goals off assists from Lucas Getzlaff and Tukker Fedje to tie the game at 1-1.

That goal was the first of six straight goals for the Braves before the North Stars found an answer in the third period. Brooks Siemens added a hat trick for Bottineau Rugby, who advanced to the West Region quarterfinals with the 7-3 win. In addition to DeMontigny and Siemens, Fedje and Peyton Getzlaff also scored goals for the Braves. Khaliel Abdurrahman had three assists. Fedje, Getzlaff and Brody Nordmark each recorded two, and Landon Siemens added one assist to round out the Braves scoring.

Ronan Klindworh scored the first of his back-to-back goals 27 seconds into the third period and added a second one two minutes later, both assisted by Adam Graney. Klindworth’s goals cut Bottineau-Rugby’s lead to 6-3.

De Montigny scored his second goal and final goal of the game with two minutes left, assisted by Fedje, extending the Braves lead to 7-3.

Bottineau-Rugby goaltender Easton Freeman finished with 16 saves, while Parker Frei and Tracen Barclay stopped 24 shots on goal for the North Stars.

With the win, the Braves advanced to a West Region quarterfinal matchup against the Bismarck Century Patriots.

No. 1 Bismarck Century 2, No. 8 Bottineau-Rugby 1

A goal from Lewis Gorder, assisted by Cooper Beckman and Fedje, and 24 saves from Freeman weren’t enough for the Bottineau-Rugby Braves against the No. 1 seed Bismarck Century in the West Region quarterfinals, on Thursday, Feb. 15.

Charlie Vig opened the scoring for the Patriots with two minutes left in the first period, assisted by Kaden Roness and Andrew Brubakken.

Gorder’s goal tied things up six minutes into the second period, but four minutes later, the Patriots’ Ben LaDuke found Brycen Hanson, who scored to put the Patriots ahead for good. Haydon Eckhart also assisted on Hanson’s goal.

Freeman finished with 24 saves for the Braves, while Bismarck Century’s Hoy Uhl stopped 17 shots on goal.

The loss moved the Braves to the consolation bracket where they faced Mandan on Friday, Feb. 16.

No. 5 Mandan 7, No. 8 Bottineau-Rugby 3

The Bottineau Rugby Braves started the week off by routing the Hazen-Beulah North Stars 7-3 just to get into the West Region tournament. The team ended the week on the other side of the same score, falling to Mandan 7-3, ending its season.

The two teams traded goals for the first period-and-a-half, with Brooks Siemens scoring two goals for the Braves, off assists from Getzlaff and Landon Siemens, the second of which knotted the score at two all. Mandan’s first goals were scored By Camerson Beaver and Brayden Krouse.

When Parker Drengson scored an unassisted goal to put Mandan ahead 3-2, it sparked five straight goals from the team including a power-play goal from Logan Blair with a minute-and-a-half left in the game. 32 seconds later Getzlaff scored a short-handed goal for Bottineau Rugby to cut the score to 7-3.

With the loss, Bottineau-Rugby concluded its regular season.

Brooks Siemens led the WDA in scoring during the year. The senior closed out his career with 42 goals and 24 assists for 66 points, eight more than second-place scorer Drew Beasley of Bismarck Legacy. Peyton Gezlaff finished his freshman year with 34 points and Khaliel Adburrahman closed out his junior campaign with 32 points.

Eastman Freeman saved 87.1 percent of shots on goal during his senior campaign for the team.