About 30 feet separated Mentor’s locker room from Strongsville’s on Feb. 8.

From one emanated plenty of noise.

From another emanated a shroud of silence.

The Cardinals were in the less-preferable predicament. Mentor built a two-goal lead five minutes into the second period, but it evaporated quickly as the Red South champion Mustangs dispatched the Cardinals, 4-2, in a Baron Cup I first-round showdown.

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