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Girls hockey plays tough in tie game with St. Peter, loses to New Ulm

By Shane PalmquistThe girls hockey team played two last week getting a tie Saturday and losing in New Ulm Tuesday. This week two conference games await the girls, tonight at Windom and Tuesday hosting to Worthington.NEW ULM 6, LUVERNE 1Cardinal girls hockey traveled to New Ulm Tuesday hoping to keep their recent good luck rolling but a road block stood in their way and Luverne was crushed 6-1. New Ulm came out shooting and playing great defense, out-shooting Luverne 16-2 in the first period and 22 shots to four in the second.The Cardinals couldn’t get the puck into their own zone, and after two periods found themselves shut out trailing 6-0. Luverne did manage to get on the board and avoid the complete shutout as senior standout Natalie Domagala registered Luverne’s only goal. Goalie Sarah Schneekloth stopped 42 of 48 shots for Luverne.LUVERNE 6, ST. PETER 6It took an extra session of skating Saturday for the girls hockey team, and a winner still couldn’t be decided as the girls skated to a 6-6 tie at Blue Mound Arena. Coach Dave Siebeanahler said, "We just got outskated and we ran out of gas toward the end of the game."Sarah Schneekloth stopped an impressive 57 of 63 shots. During some point in the second period, Her goalie stick broke, and she was forced to use it regardless. Broken stick and all she turned away 15 of 17 shots in the second. Luverne had only 19 shots on goal all game, but converted six of them.Natalie Domagala continued her scoring spree, like she has been doing all season long. Domagala put five scores on the board for the home team and teammate Sadie Dietrich scored the other goal, but was more in the giving mode recording two assists. The game went back and forth with St. Peter matching Luverne goal for goal. That was until a goal by Dietrich put Luverne up 4-3. With 45 seconds left in the second period Domagala took a pass off the stick of Dietrich and went high glove side to close out the second period with Luverne up 5-3.A very physical third period by both teams and Luverne having trouble clearing the puck out of its zone gave St. Peter what it needed to get three third-period goals and put the game into overtime.The game-tying goal by St. Peter was a power play goal, the only power play of the game as Luverne registered the only penalty of the game.

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