Junior hockey: Granite City takes control, beats Willmar WarHawks

Junior hockey: Granite City takes control, beats Willmar WarHawks

SAUK RAPIDS — The Willmar WarHawks stuck with the best team in the NA3HL’s West Division, but it wasn’t quite enough. The Granite City Lumberjacks improved to 17-2-0-0 with a 5-3 victory over Willmar on Wednesday night at the Miller Buick GMC Rink. Willmar opened the scoring with a goal by Dylan Mees at 10:21 of the first period. It was the defenseman from Mankato’s third goal with the WarHawks and fourth of the season. He began the year with th…