By John RittenhouseThe Luverne boys’ hockey team had a successful week that featured winning two games in a six-day span.The Cardinals posted a six-goal win in Sleepy Eye Thursday and beat the same team by seven goals in Luverne Tuesday. Luverne lost a six-goal home decision to Fairmont Saturday.The 3-11 Cards host Wadena-Deer Creek Saturday before playing in Worthington Tuesday.Luverne 9, SE 2Matt Reverts and Tyler Elbers scored a combined seven goals during a seven-goal home victory over Sleepy Eye Tuesday.Reverts netted four goals and passed for one assist in the game and Elbers scored three times as well as charting one assist during the lopsided win.Reverts opened the scoring 23 seconds into the game after being set up by Andre Landtwing, who contributed five assists and one goal to the winning cuase.Landtwing set up goals by Elbers and Reverts at the 2:39 and 2:32 marks of the first period, and Elbers scored again at 1:30 with assists going to Landtwing and Tim Drost to make it 4-0.SE’s Brandon Havemeier scored at 9:18 of the second period to make it 4-1 before Luverne’s Reverts (assists going to Elbers and Steve Berghorst) and Elbers (assist going to Landtwing) found the net in the final eight minutes of the stanza to make it 6-1.Bryan Tauer scored for SE early in the third period. Luverne countered with goals by Landtwing (assists going to Reverts and Jordan Siebenahler) and Andres Wellig (assists going to Siebenahler and Drost) to cap the scoring.Luverne outshot SE 51-17 in the game. Brad Van Santen made 15 saves for LHS.Fairmont 7, Luverne 1A six-goal run by Fairmont in the final two periods of the game provided the margin of victory during Saturday’s game in Luverne.The teams skated to a draw at one in the first period, but Fairmont scored five goals in a span of 10:22 minutes of the second period before Matt Harris capped the scoring with the lone goal of the third period.Pete Bissen, Jordan Meyer, Matt Sieg, Brian Hinrichsen and Jake Kot all scored one goal during the 12:31 and 2:09 marks of the second period for the visitors.Hinrichsen opened the scoring at the 6:39 mark of the first period before Luverne’s Dan Schneekloth tied the game at one after being set up by Tyler Elbers with 29 seconds left in the opening stanza.Luverne outshot Fairmont 39-29 in the game. Van Santen and Pat Bennett played in net for LHS.Luverne 8, SE 2The Cardinals posted their first conference win of the season when they bested the Indians by six goals in Sleepy Eye Thursday.Nick Otten and Justin Arndt combined efforts to score five goals and Steve Berghorst registered five assists for an LHS team that outshot SE 52-9 in the game.Luverne, which scored the first five goals of the game, received goals 19 seconds apart from Brad Deutsch and Otten to gain a 2-0 lead in the first period. Deutsch scored at 7:26 after being set up by Andreas Wellig and Dan Schneekloth. Matt Reverts and Berghorst received assists for Otten’s goal at 7:07.Berghorst set up Otten’s second goal of the game at 10:29 of the second period to make it 3-0. Arndt found the net 1:16 late with an assist going to Tyler Elbers. Otten completed a hat trick at 8:36 with an assist going to Cody Dietrich.SE’s Justin Sellner snapped Luverne’s five-goal run with a counter at the 7:37 mark of the second period. Arndt got the goal back for the Cards two minutes later to make it a 6-1 game. Andrew Landtwing set up Arndt’s second goal.Berghorst capped his three-assist performance by setting up a goal by Landtwing with 4:04 left in the third period. Jordan Siebenahler scored 1:19 later with an assist going to Otten to make the difference 8-1.SE’s Travis Niedecker capped the scoring with a goal at the 1:30 mark of the final stanza.Bennett made seven saves in goal for the Cards.
