By John RittenhouseThe Luverne girls’ hockey team skated in three games during a five-day span that started Friday.The Cardinals posted a seven-goal victory in Windom Friday before a nine-game winning streak came to an end with a tie against LeSueur-Henderson-St. Peter in LeSueur Saturday. Luverne bounced back from the deadlock to secure a four-goal victory in Marshall Friday.Luverne 9-2-1 overall and 4-0 in the conference, hosts Windom tonight, Mankato West Saturday and Fairmont Tuesday.Luverne 8, Marshall 4A four-goal third period gave the Cardinals a victory in Marshall Tuesday.The teams were tied at four heading into the final period, when Natalie Domagala and Sadie Dietrich scored two goals each to settle the issue.Domagala, who had five goals in the game, broke the deadlock after being set up by Dietrich at the 10:39 mark of the stanza.Dietrich, who had three goals and three assists, netted an unassisted tally at 7:45 before teaming up with Taylor Nelson to set up Domagala’s fifth goal of the game with 1:44 left to play.Dietrich capped the scoring with an unassisted effort with nine seconds remaining.Marshall led 1-0 when Ashley Verdeck scored 2:17 into the game, but Domagala countered with an unassisted goal at the 9:05 mark of the first period before Dietrich gave the Cards a 2-1 lead eight seconds later. Chessa Ossefoort set up Dietrich’s first goal.Marshall’s Sara Desaer tied the game at two late in the first period before Domagala opened the second period with goals at 10:39 and 7:45 to give LHS a 4-2 lead. Dietrich and Jenny Braa received assists for Domagala’s goals in the second stanza.Tiger Alyssa Isaackson, however, tied the game at four with a pair of second-period goals.Luverne had a 32-29 shooting edge at game’s end. Sarah Schneekloth made 25 saves for the Cards.Luverne 6, L-H-SP 6A streak of nine straight wins came to an end for the Cardinals when they battled Le Sueur-Henderson-St. Peter to a draw at six in Le Sueur Saturday.It looked like the Cardinals would win handily when they opened a 5-1 lead 5:25 into the second period, but the Bulldogs rallied to outscore LHS 5-1 the rest of the way to tie the game at six.Domagala, who scored five goals for LHS, opened the scoring 41 seconds into the game after being set up by Dietrich, but Casey Hanson tied the game at one for L-H-SP at the 15:27 mark of the first period.Domagala then scored three straight unassisted goals (two in the first period and one 1:52 into the second period) before scoring her fifth goal of the game after being set up by Natalie Morgan to make it a 5-1 difference with 11:34 left in the second stanza.The Bulldogs tied the game at five with two goals by Abby Sunderman and one each from Stacy Gross and Tiffany Gath before the second period was complete, and Gath scored her second goal of the game 2:50 into the third period to give the hosts their first lead at 6-5.Luverne’s Dietrich knotted the score at six with an unassisted goal with 9:30 left in regulation play, and the score remained tied the rest of the way.L-H-SP outshot the Cards 36-33. Schneekloth made 30 saves for LHS.Luverne 9, Windom 2Domagala and Dietrich recorded a combined 13 points to lead the Cardinals to their third straight conference win in Windom Friday.Domagala netted five goals and charted two assists for a seven-point effort. Dietrich compiled six points with four goals and two assists.The game was tied at two when Windom’s Sarah Luhmann scored at the 7:33 mark of the first period, but Luverne outscored the Eagles 7-0 the rest of the way.Domagala put the Cards in front 3-2 after being set up by Dietrich with 4:31 left in the first period. Dietrich netted an unassisted goal with 4:06 remaining before scoring again with 2:15 left with an assist going to Domagala to make it a 5-2 contest.Domagala scored an unassisted goal in the second period to make it 6-2 before scoring another unassisted goal at 6:20 of the third period and finding the net again with the help of Dietrich with 5:47 remaining in the game. Braa set up Dietrich’s final goal of the contest 16 seconds later to cap the scoring.Windom took a 1-0 lead with a goal from Alex Potter 1:12 into the game. Domagala set up a goal by Dietrich at 13:56 to tie the game at one before scoring an unassisted goal at 8:03 to give the Cards a 2-1 lead.Luverne outshot Windom 25-18. Schneekloth made 16 of 18 save attempts for the winners.
