Cali Kid Gets The Trick And Treats Cobbers To A Season-Opening Win

MOORHEAD, Minn. (10/31/25)---The Cali Kid put on his best LA Dodgers costume for Halloween and led the Cobbers to a 5-2 win over Concordia (Wis.) in the season opener for both teams.

Joe Harguindeguy (Sr., La Habra, Calif.) scored three of Concordia's five goals as he recorded his first collegiate hat trick.

Harguindeguy, who was the MIAC Rookie of the Year in 2023, scored the first two goals of the game to stake the Cobbers to a 2-0 lead after the first 20 minutes of play.

Harguindeguy's two goals came only 41 seconds apart in the first minute of the opening period. He sniped the opener on a 2-on-1 break as he looked off the pass and went top shelf to stake CC to a 1-0 lead at 4:15.

His second goal came at 4:56 when he split the defense on a pass from Caden Triggs and buried a shot on a mini breakaway.

Concordia jumped to a 3-0 lead at 7:53 when Carson Triggs netted his first collegiate goal from an impossible angle after he was denied on a breakaway attempt. Triggs was stopped on his initial attempt but then took the rebound from below the red line and bounced it off the goalie and into the net.

The Falcons cut the lead to 3-2 with goals 2:41 apart in the middle of the second period.

Harguindeguy put any Falcon rally hopes to bed when he scored in the dying second of the second period. Looking to carry their momentum into the third period, the Falcons were killing off a penalty when Harguindeguy struck for the hat trick.

He 1-timed a banger into the top shelf of the net while the Cobbers were on a 5-on-3 power play. His goal with 1-second left in the period got CC back a 2-goal lead which they would never relinquish for the final 20 minutes of the game,

Tal Halliday completed the scoring in the contest when he buried a shot from the bottom of the right faceoff circle in the fifth minute of the final frame.

The game featured 19 total penalties for a combined 41 penalty minutes. CC was 2-for-6 on the power play, while the Falcons went 1-for-7.

Cobber goalie Dane Couture stopped 18 shots to earn his 16th career win.

The two Concordias will finish their 2-game series on Saturday, Nov. 1 at 2 p.m.