{"id":483970,"date":"2026-02-22T14:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483970\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T14:45:10","slug":"record-breaking-night-for-fuji-suzuki-lifts-bulls-over-bobcats-in-mason-city-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/483970\/","title":{"rendered":"Record-breaking night for Fuji Suzuki lifts Bulls over Bobcats in Mason City | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MASON CITY, Iowa \u2014 Fuji Suzuki led the North Iowa Bulls to a thrilling 6-4 victory over the Bismarck Bobcats at Mason City Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki, a forward and assistant captain, scored three goals, achieving a hat trick and breaking the team record for most goals in a North American Hockey League (NAHL) season.<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki&#8217;s performance began with two goals in the first period, putting the Bulls ahead early. Denis Hodas added another goal, giving the Bulls a 3-0 lead. Bismarck&#8217;s Dennis Lominac scored before the end of the period, closing the gap to 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>In the second period, Suzuki scored again on a power play, and Denis Kuzmenkov capitalized on a pass from Suzuki, extending the Bulls&#8217; lead to 5-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Bobcats fought back in the third period with goals from Cam Alemond and George Porier, narrowing the score to 5-4. However, Denis Hodas set up Vitaliy Korolyuk for the final goal, sealing the Bulls&#8217; victory.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Hodas and Brody Dietz celebrated their 100th NAHL games. Dietz, from Hudson, Wisconsin, tied the Bulls&#8217; single-season assists record and set a new record for assists by a defenseman.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Charlie Durkin contributed with 22 saves, earning his seventh win in his 12th appearance this season.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northiowabulls.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bulls<\/a> will face the Minnesota Mallards in Forest Lake on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MASON CITY, Iowa \u2014 Fuji Suzuki led the North Iowa Bulls to a thrilling 6-4 victory over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[78156,36780,4,450,42236,451,6755,133200,3,210345,6308,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-483970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-bismarck","9":"tag-bobcats","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-breakingnews","12":"tag-bulls","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-mason-city","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-north-iowa","18":"tag-score","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}