MIDDLETON, Wis. - Conrad Fondrk (White Bear Lake, Minn.) scored two goals for the third time in four games and the U.S. National Under-18 Team used five unanswered goals to take down the Madison Capitols, 6-2, Friday night at Bob Suter's Legacy20 Arena in Wisconsin. 

The Capitols stormed back with the next two of the period to take a 2-1 advantage after 20 minutes of action. Ryker Lee, a top-5 scorer in the USHL, collected them both. First, he connected from the top of the left circle on a transition rush just a minute after McKinney. He gave Madison the lead near the midway mark with good positioning in front of the net to one-touch a pass home. 

The game stayed 2-1 for nearly 20 minutes of game action until Jake Stuart (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) knotted it up at a pair apiece at 7:25 of the second. The U.S. entered the zone at a high pace on a 4-on-2 rush. Gallant found Drew Schock (Green Bay, Wis.) on the right wing, who centered a perfect feed for Stuart to knock home to crack double digit goals on the season. 

The U18s worked themselves in front less than a minute into the final stanza. Fondrk was the recipient of a beautiful cross-crease pass from LJ Mooney (West Mifflin, Pa.) and the BU commit banged home the one-timer to put Team USA on top. Will Moore (Ithaca, N.Y.) earned the secondary helper on the 3-2 score. 

Jacob Kvasnicka (Wayzata, Minn.) went the length of the ice and finished with a pretty move at the circle to extend the lead to 4-2. He made a hard cut at the face-off dot to breeze by the defender and roofed a quick wrister past Caleb Heil for his 13th score of the season. Stuart and Garrett Lindberg (Moorhead, Minn.) added assists on the goal. 

Fondrk and Mooney teamed up on another quick one-timer goal at 11:27 of the third to give Fondrk multiple scores in three of his last four games and push the U18 lead to 5-2. 

Mooney found an empy net late in regulation for the 6-2 final.

Joey Slavick (Westland, Mich.) made 16 stops in net to pick up his seventh win of the season for Team USA. 

The U18s continue the Wisconsin road trip as they finish up their 2024-25 Kroger College Series Sunday evening at the University of Wisconsin. Puck drop is slated for 7:00 p.m. ET from the Kohl Center and the game will stream live on BigTen Plus.