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Cardinals roll Saturday against Minnesota River

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By
Matt Lais for the Star Herald

The Luverne girls’ hockey team improved its record to 3-1 Saturday afternoon, Nov. 20, at the Blue Mound Ice Arena where the Cardinals edged Minnesota River 7-3.
Reghan Bork started the scoring 2:25 into the game when she beat Minnesota River’s Amilia Messer with an assist from Kamryn Van Batavia.
Play went back and forth until Minnesota River Sophia Doherty found the back of the net to even the score at 1-1 midway through the period.
Luverne would put up 17 total shots on Messer in the first period, but at the end of 17 minutes the score remained 1-1.
The Cardinals came out buzzing with three goals to open up the second period.
Bork tallied her second of the game with assists coming from Van Batavia and Payton Behr. Ten seconds later Ella Apel got on the scoresheet with assists going to her linemates Greta McClure and Billi Connell.
The scoring kept coming just a minute later when Van Batavia got her first of the game with assists coming from Behr and Bork to take a 4-1 lead.
Minnesota River’s Anna Pavlo would get the Bulldogs within two points with a goal, but that didn’t last long when Bork took matters into her own hands and netted her third score of the game on an unassisted power-play goal.
The second period ended 5-2 in favor of the Cardinals.
The Cardinals struck again with two goals at the 2:39 and 16:10 respectively in the third period.
Apel tallied her second of the game with an assist from Van Batavia. Then it was Van Batavia, with the assist going to Anika Boll, to take a commanding five-goal lead.
Minnesota River scored with just nine seconds left in the game, leaving the final score at Luverne 7, Minnesota River 3.
The Cardinals had 42 shots on goal compared with the Bulldogs’ 25.
Luverne hosts Fairmont Tuesday, Nov. 23, at the Blue Mound Ice Arena.

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