POCATELLO — The Pocatello Thunder didn’t finish their season as they expected: hoisting a trophy for the fourth consecutive year.

But the shorthanded Thunder, with several players in street clothes during the state tournament, battled the No. 1 seed Hillcrest Knights for a third-place trophy, eventually falling 3-1. Before they got to that point, though, they had to beat a Twin Falls team that had not lost all year — and had beaten Pocatello twice.

Poky claimed a 2-0 shutout victory over the Bruins in the tournament’s opening round, behind one of what was many dominant efforts from sophomore goalie Madysen Torngren. The towering sophomore keeper turned away 21 shots in the opening-round victory and earned high praise from head coach Mark Wetstein, who called Torngren’s performance “incre

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