Boys hockey: Cards go 2-0 on the Range
VIRGINIA — Senior wing Hunter Schneider continued to dynamite his way through the third period on Saturday as Willmar concluded its two-day journey on the Iron Range.
After two scoreless periods at Miner’s Memorial arena, Schneider lit the fuse on Willmar’s third straight victory with a pair of goals to defeat the Blue Devils of Virginia/Mountain Iron-Buhl 2-1.
Schneider scored a pure hat track in the third stanza at Eveleth the night before, a 6-0 victory over the Golden Bears.
Cardinal goalie Joey Benson was working on a second consecutive shutout in hockey country when the Devils’ Jordan Prybylski scored with 91 seconds left in the third frame.
Benson finished with 29 stops after stopping all 15 he faced at Eveleth the night before in a 6-0 Willmar victory at the Hippodrome.
Schneider’s first goal was on a powerplay; Evan VanDenEinde had a helper on the second. Schneider hiked his team-high goal account to 23 with 23 assists.
The Cardinals (10-7-1) are at Sauk Rapids (4-12-1) on Tuesday before hosting Alexandria on Thursday in the second game of a girl/boy doubleheader with the Douglas County Cardinals.
Willmar Cardinals 2,
Virginia/Mountain Iron-Buhl 1
Willmar (10-7-1) 0 0 2 — 2
Virginia/MIB (6-11-1) 0 0 1 — 1
FIRST PERIOD – no scoring
SECOND PERIOD – no scoring
THIRD PERIOD – Wil: Hunter Schneider 7:25 pp .. Wil: Schneider (Evan VanDenEinde) 10:35 … VMIB: Jordan Prybylski (Travis Kemp, Zach Voss) 15:29
GOALIE SAVES – Willmar: Joey Benson 30-29 … Virginia/Mt. Iron/Buhl: Lucas Murray 27-25
Result Friday
Note: The full box score of Willmar’s game in Eveleth was not available at press time Friday.
Willmar 6,
Eveleth-Gilbert 0
Willmar (9-7-1) 1 2 3 — 6
Eveleth-Gilbert (5-9-1) 0 0 0 — 0
FIRST PERIOD – Wil: Ryan Woltjer (Hunter Schneider) 7:32 pp, 5-on-3,
SECOND PERIOD – Wil: Evan VanDenEinde (Riley Grabow) 1:29 …. Wil: Zech Streed (Buzzy Tollefson) 13:38
THIRD PERIOD – Wil: Schneider (Tollefson) 0:46, pp … Wil: Schneider 2:38 .. Wil: Schneider (Streed) 5:51
GOALIES – Willmar: Joey Benson 15… Eveleth-Gilbert: Chad Hietela 38
Southwest
Morris/Benson Area 10,
Worthington 4
The Storm offense feasted at the Worthington Arena on Saturday in a 10-4 Southwest Conference victory playing the Worthington Trojans.
After one period it as tied 3-all but Morris/Benson Area piled up 7 goals over the next 34 minutes of clock time to one by the Trojans.
Brody Gimberlin, Mac Beyer, Riley Blake and Tanner Picht each scored twice. Kyle Kennedy was the winning goalie with 14 saves.
MBA (4-3, 9-7) 3 4 3 — 10
Worthington (0-7, 3-10) 3 1 0 — 4
FIRST PERIOD – Wor: Andy Johnson (Levi Leach) 2:02 … Wor: Kody Honius 11:30 … MBA: Brody Gimberlin (Mac Beyer, Tanner Picht) 11:47 … MBA: Lincoln Pahl (Taner Gimberlin, Jordan Staples) 14:48 .. Wor: Nick Newman 15:30 … MBA: Tanner Mikkelson (Corey Storck) 16:27
SECOND PERIOD – Beyer (B. Gimberlin, Picht) 5:16 … MBA: Riley Blake (Storck, Darion Helberg) 6:18 … Wor: Alex Thompson (Kody Honius, Levi Leach) 8:03 … MBA: Beyer (B. Gimberlin, Picht) 10:38 … MBA: Picht (B. Gimberlin, Beyer) 16:52
THIRD PERIOD – MBA: B. Gimberlin (Beyer, Staples) 1:24 … MBA: Blake (Helberg, Storck) 2:12 … MBA: Picht (B.Gimberlin, Beyer) 16:52
GOALIE SAVES – Morris/Benson: Kyle Kennedy 18-14 … Worthington: Rylan Scholtes 36-26
