Hockey Roundup: Fergus Falls Knocks Down Willmar Girls – The Rink Live

FERGUS FALLS — The state-ranked Fergus Falls women’s hockey team edged Willmar 4-3 Thursday night at the Fergus Falls Ice Arena.

Fergus Falls, ranked seventh in Class A, leads the Central Lakes Conference with an 8-2 record and a 17-4 record overall. Willmar fell to 3-9 in the CLC and 13-12 overall.

Willmar will head to the Section 6A playoffs next week.

Riley Nyberg scored twice to help Alexandria beat River Lakes at Runestone Community Center in Alexandria.

The Cardinals are now 8-4 in the Central Lakes Conference and River Lakes are 3-8.

The Stars got goals from Jordyn Bebus and Sophia Hess.

River Lakes ends the regular season playing St. Cloud at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday in Richmond.

River Lakes (14-11) 0 2 0 — 2
Alexandria (12-10) 3 2 1 — 6
FIRST PERIOD – (1) A: Riley Nyberg (Julia Doherty) 9:28 a.m. … (2) A: Peyton Boesl (Kennedy Ellingson) 10:31 a.m. … (3) A: Cadence Ellingson (Kylie Lattimer, Doherty) 12:55 p.m.
SECOND PERIOD – (4) LR: Jordyn Bebus (Sophia Hess, Kianna Roeske): 21 … (5) F: Riley Nyberg (K. Ellingson) 3:08 … (6) F: Kaci Trosvig (Hanley Block, Lauren Maras) 13:18 … (7) RL: Hess (Roeske) 15:42.
THIRD PERIOD – (8) A: Lattimer (unassisted) 8:07.
SAVED/SHORING KEEPERS – River Lakes: Kaydence Roeska 40/46 … Alexandria: Jordan O’Kane 20/22

Northern Lakes improved to 13-10-1 with the win over Morris/Benson Area Storm at Breezy Point Ice Arena.

MBA fell to 1-20-1.

MBA plays at 5:45 p.m. Friday at Detroit Lakes.

Fergus Falls extended his record to 14-6 with the win over Willmar at the Willmar Civic Center.

Willmar, 4-14, plays Redwood Valley at 12:30 p.m. Saturday in Redwood Falls.

State-ranked Little Falls overcame a 1-0 first-period deficit to beat River Lakes at Exchange Arena in Little Falls.

Blake Schultz opened the scoring at 11:40, giving the Stars a 1-0 lead.

The Flyers went wild with four goals in the second period. Carter Oothoudt scored two of his third goals in the second period. George Moore also netted twice for eighth-placed Class A Little Falls.

Cole Pientka had the other goal for River Lakes.

The Stars play at 7:15 p.m. Friday against Mora/Milaca in Richmond.

River Lakes (9-11) 1 1 0 — 2
Small fall (19-3) 0 4 2 — 6
FIRST PERIOD – (1) GM: Blake Schultz (Brady Blaschko) 11:40 a.m.
SECOND PERIOD – (2) LF: Carter Oothoudt (Hayden Johnson, Matt Fliippi) 2:15, PP… (3) LF: Oothoudt (M. Filippi, Johnson) 6:07… (4) RL: Cole Pientka (Bennett Schultz, Jacob Philippi ) 11:27 … (5): LF George Moore (Johnson) 13:20, PP … (6) LF: Moore (Johnson, Mr. Flippi) 15:41, PP.
THIRD PERIOD – (7) LF: Oothoudt (Johnson, Mr. Flippi) 10:28 a.m.… (8) LF: Alec Lindberg (Hudson Flippi, Aaron Marod) 4:43 p.m.
SAVED/SHORING KEEPERS – River lakes: Ashton Fischer 34/40. Small falls: DJ Kicker 15/17

Daniel Estrada, Ryan Schutz and Jack Hillmann scored goals for Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato in their win over New Ulm at Litchfield.

New Ulm beat the Dragons, 37-25.

Litchfield/DC plays at 8 p.m. Friday at Southwest Christian/Richfield in Chaska.

New Microlight (10-10-1) 0 0 1 — 1
Litchfield/DC (12-7) 0 2 1 — 3
FIRST PERIOD – No score.
SECOND PERIOD – (1) LOC: Daniel Estrada (Grant Haataja) 4:09 a.m.… (2) LOC: Ryan Schutz (Connor Taber, Gavin Hanson) 2:35 p.m., SH.
THIRD PERIOD – (3) NU: Austin Uecker (unassisted) 2:27 … (4) LDC: Jack Hillmann (unassisted) 2:51.
SAVED/SHORING KEEPERS – New Ulm: Dawson Sellner 22/25 … Litchfield/DC: Chase Zwilling 36/37

The Morris/Benson area storm skated past Prairie Center in Morris.

Brady DeHaan had a hat trick for the Storm, who also got goals from Sam Thompson, Tim Blume and Cole Blume.

MBA is now 11-10-1. Prairie Center fell to 6-15.

MBA plays at 3 p.m. Saturday in Luverne.

Central Prairies (6-15) 0 1 0 — 1
MBA (11-10-1) 2 2 2 — 6
FIRST PERIOD – (1) MBA: Brady DeHaan (Kaleb Breuer) 10:20 a.m. … (2) MBA: Tim Blume (Tyler Hadfield) 4:19 p.m.
SECOND PERIOD – (3) MBA: DeHaan (unassisted) 1:56 … (4) MBA: DeHaan (Ryan Tolifson) 6:00 … (5) PC: Derrick Sorenson (unassisted) 12:44.
THIRD PERIOD – (6) MBA: Cole Blume (Tyler Hadfield) 3:21, PP… (7) MBA: Sam Thompson (unassisted) 9:28.
SAVED/SHORING KEEPERS – Prairie Center: Joe Nedoroscik 28/34 (46:15), Ben Millard 5/5 (4:45) … MBA: Christopher Danielson 22/23