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First Posted: 3/29/2012 Ivan Provorov's overtime goal Thursday morning lifted the The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Knights to a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues and improved the team to 2-0 at the USA Hockey Tier I 14-and-Under national championships in Williamsville, N.Y.
The Knights are assured of one of the top four spots in the National Division and a berth in Saturday's quarterfinals. They will meet the division's other team with two wins, the Belle Tire Hockey Club, Friday at 8:15 a.m. Denis Smirnov and Louis DeNaples, a Moscow resident, scored the other goals for the Knights.
St. Louis opened the scoring in the final minute of the second period.
Denis Smirnov scored on a Nikita Pavlychev assist with 14:02 remaining, but St. Louis regained the lead on a power-play goal.
DeNaples scored on another Pavlychev assist with 4:30 left in regulation.
Provorov scored 3:19 into the five-minute overtime.
Nicholas Vilardo made 22 saves to get the win in goal.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton led in shots, 38-24, including, 28-12, in the final two periods of regulation.
Belle Tire opened with a 2-1 overtime win over Shattuck-St. Mary's Wednesday, then handled the Amherst Knights, 7-0, Thursday.
For more coverage of this event, return to www.golackawanna.com/sports and see Sunday's Go Lackawanna.

UPDATED: Knights improve to 2-0 with OT win