Boys hockey: Delano/Rockford roars past LDC

LITCHFIELD — Mike Krueger scored the hat trick, Eric Ylitalo scored twice and Nate Meyers scored a goal and had three assists in Delano/Rockford’s 6-0 Wright County Conference win over Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato on Friday night at the Litchfield Civic Center.

Tigers’ goalie Brett Norling made 18 saves in the shutout victory.

Litchfield/DC goalie Braeden Wahl faced 34 shots and 28 saves.

Delano/Rockford 6, Litchfield/DC 0

Delano/Roc. (2-2 10-7) .........2 1 3 — 6

Litchfield/DC (2-3 7-8) ..........0 0 0 — 0

FIRST PERIOD – D: Mike Krueger (Levi Peterson, Lars Halonen) 1:00 … D: Krueger (Hunter Hart, Nate Meyers) 14:26 SECOND PERIOD – D: Eric Ylitalo (Meyers) 2:33 THIRD PERIOD – D: Krueger (Halonen) 0:13 … D: Nate Meyers 2:13 … D: Ylitalo 15:00 GOALIE SAVES – Delano/Rockford: Brett Norling 18 … Litchfield/DC: Braeden Wahl 28 Non-Conference River Lakes 8, Becker/Big Lake 2 Jake Herges’s pure hat trick shot the Stars to a 3-0 lead. Dylan Jude also finished with a hat trick. River Lakes (8-10) ..............2 2 4 — 8 Becker/BL ..........................0 2 0 — 2 FIRST PERIOD – RL: Jake Herges (Joe Spaulding, Stefan Tomovic) 13:01 … RL: Herges (Tomovic) 16:15 SECOND PERIOD – RL: Herges 4:30 … RL: Dylan Jude 7:42 … BBL: Jason Tonneslan 9:26 … BBL: Tucker Wilkendorg 13:09 THIRD PERIOD – RL: Jude (Daiton Johnson, Evan Bayer) 6:19 .. RL: Jude (Grant Thompson) 6:37 … RL: Ethan Parsons (Johnson) 8:07 … RL: Austin Stone (Nick Bergeson, Ethan Parsons) 12:20 GOALIE SAVES – River Lakes: Trevor Meed 24-22…Becker/BL: Ben Manzke 42-34