Nineteen Goals in Two Nights: Reno Sweeps the Outlaws

MHL WEEKEND WRAP — Nov. 6–7, 2026

FINAL: Southwest Outlaws 2, Reno Ice Raiders 9

Friday, Nov. 6 — Reno Ice

FINAL: Southwest Outlaws 4, Reno Ice Raiders 10

Saturday, Nov. 7 — Reno Ice

You want to know what a defending champion looks like? It looks like Reno on Military Appreciation Weekend.

The Southwest Outlaws came up from Vegas, and they came to play. They scored first on Friday night — Jensen Baehr, nineteen-oh-two left in the first, Outlaws up 1-0 in Reno's barn. For about thirteen minutes, it was a hockey game.

Then Matt Pederson happened.

Pederson tied it before the first was out. He put Reno ahead in the second. And with under five to go in the third, he finished off his hat trick to make it 9-2. Jake Minton set up all three of them — plus Hunter Sine's goal and Johnny Garrity's. Five assists from Minton on Friday night. That's why he was the first star. Rob Hallowell, Garrity on the power play with four seconds left in the second, Bobby Watson, Andrew Peterson, Victor Gonzalez — nine goals from seven different guys. Reno outshot Southwest 50 to 32. Justin Sand made 30 saves in the win. Mario Vrab stood in there and made 41 for the Outlaws, and he deserved better.

Saturday, Reno didn't wait. Sine on the power play, 8:35 in. Garrity twenty-five seconds later. Minton forty-three seconds after that. Three-nothing before the Outlaws had their skates under them. Minton scored again shorthanded — shorthanded! — and by the end of the first it was 6-1.

Garrity made it 10-3 with his third of the night early in the third, and Zoran Saavedra got one back late for the Outlaws. That's a hat trick for Garrity, two goals and three assists for Sine, two goals and two assists for Minton. Justis Gyori stopped 20 of 24. Vince Sorgentoni faced 45 shots for Southwest.

It got chippy, too. Roger Hutchison dropped the gloves in the first period and was gone with a misconduct in the third. Both teams combined for 67 penalty minutes on Saturday. That's old-time hockey, folks. Nobody got hurt and everybody went home with a story.

Here's the thing I want the Outlaws to hear: you scored first in their building on Friday, Dalton Chaney scored both nights, Zach Pochiro set one up and buried one on the power play, and you'll see these guys again. Nineteen-to-six over a weekend stings. Use it.

And everybody else? The champs are rolling. Nineteen goals in two nights. Minton and Garrity put up nine points apiece. Sine had six. Pederson can score from anywhere. If you want The Clear Cup, you're going through Reno.

Photo: Reno Ice Raiders / Instagram

— From the Office of the MHL