Luverne defenseman Tim Drost swipes at a puck controlled by Wadena-Deer Creek’s Andrew Murray during Saturday’s boys’ hockey game at the Blue Mound Ice Arena. The visiting Wolverines upended the Cardinals by an 8-0 tally.By John RittenhouseThe Luverne boys’ hockey team slipped to 3-14 for the season after dropping a pair of games since Saturday.Wadena-Deer Creek skated to an eight-goal win over the Cardinals in Luverne Saturday. The Cards lost by six goals in Worthington Tuesday.Luverne hosts Waseca Saturday.Worthington 8,Luverne 2The Trojans scored the game’s first eight goals during a convincing six-goal home win Tuesday.Ben Clark recorded a hat trick and Michael Wildeman scored twice for a Worthington team that outshot the Cardinals 45-26 in the contest.Clark opened the scoring at the 13:10 mark of the first period before Cameron Koopman made it 2-0 with 5:02 left in the stanza.Wildeman scored twice in the first 8:09 of the second period, and Jared Smith and Clark added goals 1:41 apart as the period progressed to make it 6-0.Clark completed his hat trick with 11:54 left to play in the third period. Paul Elsing added a goal at 6:58 to end Worthington’s eight-goal run.Luverne’s Nathan Boler scored after being set up by Andre Landtwing and Tyler Elbers with 1:45 left to play. Landtwing received his second assist of the game when Matt Reverts scored with 22 seconds remaining.Pat Bennett stopped 38 shots in net for LHS.W-DC 8, Luverne 0The Cardinals proved to be no match for a solid Wadena-Deer Creek team when the squads squared off in the Blue Mound Ice Arena Saturday.The Wolverines scored eight goals in the first two periods and outshot the Cards 43-15 in an 8-0 game.Luverne limited W-DC to goals by Mike Mays and Kyle Dickhaus in the first period, but the Wolverines exploded for six goals in the second period to settle the issue.Tyler Neu and Andrew Murray scored two goals each for W-DC in the second period. Brandon Kvaame and Dustin Postell netted one goal each in the stanza.Bennett, who kept the Cardinals in the game by making 15 saves in the first period, stopped 35 of 43 shots overall.
