Prep Hockey Roundup: River Lakes rallies to topple Willmar
Mar. 8—WILLMAR — The River Lakes boys hockey team blew open a close game with four third-period goals to beat Willmar 6-3 on Saturday.
Willmar took a 3-2 lead early in the third period with goals from Aaron Fischer and Elijah Van Buren.
The Stars then scored four straight goals. Scoring goals for River Lakes were: Jacob Phillippi, Bradey Blaschko, who scored twice, and Tanner Stanley, who scored an empty-netter.
River Lakes is scheduled to play Thursday at Little Falls. Willmar is scheduled to play at 7:15 p.m. Monday at Fergus Falls.
River Lakes 6,
Willmar 3
River Lakes (4-7-2) 1 1 4 — 6
Willmar (2-13-0) 1 0 2 — 3
FIRST PERIOD — (1) RL: Jacob Philippi (Sam Zeiher, Joel Sowada), PP ... (2) W: Jason Malmgren (Taton Hansen, Aiden Donelan), PP
SECOND PERIOD — (3) RL: Bennet Schultz (Cole Pientka)
THIRD PERIOD — (4) W: Aaron Fischer (Kory Behm, Donelan) ... (5) W: Elijah Van Buren (Blake Tersch, Hansen) ... (6) RL: Philippi (Pientka) ... (7) RL: Bradey Blaschko (Bennet Bjerke) ... (8) RL: Blaschko (Jayden Scheierl) ... (9) RL: Tanner Stanley (unassisted), SH EN
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — River Lakes: Josh Venable 29/32 ... Willmar: Gavin Steinwand 20/25
Litchfield/D-C 10,
Redwood Valley 0
Jaxon Gustafson, Ryan Schutz and Logan Benson had two goals apiece to help push Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato past Redwood Valley in Litchfield.
Darby Halonen stopped 18 shots to record the shutout for the Dragons.
Litchfield/D-C plays at 7 p.m. Monday at Waconia.
Redwood Valley (8-8-0) 0 0 0 — 0
Litchfield/D-C (7-6-2) 3 6 1 — 10
FIRST PERIOD — (1) LDC: Daniel Estrada (unassisted), 5:02 EN ... (2) LDC: Jaxon Gustafson (Mason Schroeder), 6:06 ... (3) LDC: Ryan Schutz (unassisted), 9:49
SECOND PERIOD — (4) LDC: Schroeder (unassisted), 0:36 ... (5) LDC: Tristen Pieti (Gavyn Lund), 2:18 ... (6) LDC: Logan Benson (Gavin Hanson), 2:35 ... (7) LDC: Schutz (Hanson, Maison Olson), 7:50 ... (8) LDC: Gustafson (Schroeder, Benson), 10:42 ... (9) LDC: Benson (unassisted), 15:53
THIRD PERIOD — (10) LDC: Hanson (Gustafson), 4:39
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — Redwood Valley: Camden Cilek 30/39 ... Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato: Darby Halonen 18/18
Sartell 7,
MBA 0
Billy Vogt and Lacen Van Den Berg each had two goals to help lead Sartell past host Morris/Benson Area.
The Storm play at 5:15 p.m. Monday against Prairie Centre at Long Prairie.
Sartell (7-7) 1 2 4 — 7
MBA (10-4) 0 0 0 — 0
FIRST PERIOD — (1) S: Billy Vogt (Sterling Teddy McCabe, Thomas Franke), 4:39 PP
SECOND PERIOD — (2) S: Jack Schmitz (Parker Comstock, Conner Hacker), 8:50 ... (3) S: Tory Lund (McCabe), 9:50
THIRD PERIOD — (4) S: Lacen Van Den Berg (Lund, McCabe), 1:27 PP ... (5) S: Van Den Berg (Michael Webster, Hacker), 5:14 ... (6) S: Vogt (Lund), 6:57 SH ... (7) S: Hayden Walters (Hacker, John Kern), 11:42
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — Sartell: Quentin Sigurdson 19/19 ... MBA: Brady Backman 41/48
Girls Hockey
New Ulm 2,
Litchfield/D-C 0
Maddie O'Connor and Julia Helget scored goals to lead New Ulm over host Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato.
Avery Stilwell stopped 36 of 38 shots in goal for the Dragons.
Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato's next scheduled game is noon Saturday, March 13, at Orono.
New Ulm (12-2) 0 1 1 — 2
Litchfield/D-C (3-10) 0 0 0 — 0
FIRST PERIOD — No scoring
SECOND PERIOD — (1) NU: Maddie O'Connor (Julia Helget, McKenna Strong), 10:10 PP
THIRD PERIOD — (2) NU: Helget (Morgan Klein, Jada Rahe), 3:45
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — New Ulm: Ava Brennan 18/18 ... Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato: Avery Stilwell 34/36
Worthington 5,
MBA Storm 3
A three-goal second period helped lift Worthington past host Morris/Benson Area.
The Storm got goals from Karlie Bruns and Allison Michaelson. Leah Thompson stopped 35 of 40 shots in goal for MBA.
MBA plays Windom at 7 p.m. Monday in Morris.
Worthington (6-7) 1 3 1 — 5
MBA Storm (1-10) 1 1 1 — 3
FIRST PERIOD — (1) W: Ashton Fogelman (unassisted), 5:53 ... (2) MBA: Karlie Bruns (Taryn Picht), 10:40
SECOND PERIOD — (3) W: MaKenna Nickel (Fogelman), 2:50 ... (4) W: M. Nickel (Fogelman, Riley Nickel), 12:47 ... (5) MBA: Bruns (Picht), 14:41 ... (6) W: Lauren Nelson (R. Nickel, Fogelman), 16:05
THIRD PERIOD — (7) W: Kessey Aljets (unassisted), 4:34 ... (8) MBA: Allison Michaelson (unassisted), 13:31
GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — Worthington: Alexis Lyons 25/28 ... MBA Storm: Leah Thompson 35/40
