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2013-14 Girls' Varsity Hockey Team

Tony  Sandbulte

Tony Sandbulte

Head Coach

Phone: (507) 283-4491

Dakota Steensma

Dakota Steensma

Assistant Coach

Phone: (507) 283-2302

Team Information

Section: 3A
Conference: Southwest
Cooperative: Luverne/Adrian
Combined Enrollment: 470
Nickname: Cardinals
Colors: Red/White
Assistant Coach: Dakota Steensma
Home Ice: Blue Mound Ice Arena
2012-13 Record: 15-5

Recent Luverne News

Girls off to Flying Start

By John Rittenhouse 11/22/2013, 11:15pm CST

The Luverne girls’ hockey team started the 2013-14 season in impressive fashion by posting a pair of convincing wins at the Blue Mound Ice Arena late last week.

The Cardinals coasted to an 8-0 victory over Windom in Thursday’s opener before routing a Le Sueur-Henderson-St. Peter team by an 11-2 tally Saturday.

I took advantage of the situation to watch both games.

When I left the venue after Saturday’s conquest, the two major concerns I had about the team entering the season were completely erased from my mind.

Luverne is playing for its third different head coach in as many years, which led me to believe there might be an adjustment period needed for the players to get on the same page with first-year mentor Tony Sandbulte.

After watching LHS outscore two opponents 19-1 and outshoot the foes by an 83-20 margin in two games, it’s clear to me now no adjustment period is needed.

After hearing Sandbulte delivering instructions from my position at the end of the bench and seeing the players respond in a positive way on the ice, there’s no question in my mind the athletes and their coach already are on the same page.

The other concern I had before last week was how big an impact losing two key point-producers (Morgan Hohn and Monique Aanenson) from the 2012-13 would have on this year’s squad.

If the first two games are any indication, scoring points in bundles will not be a problem for this team.

One player in particular appears to be thriving under Sandbulte’s instruction.

Sophomore Makayla Sterrett has been one of the top scorers since breaking onto the varsity scene as a seventh-grader during the 2010-11 campaign.

I realized Sterrett was a unique talent four years ago, but I can’t recall seeing her dominate games the way she did against Windom and L-H-SP.

Sterrett was nothing less than sensational in the opener, scoring five goals during a seven-point performance.

She also came up big by scoring four goals and registering one assist against an L-H-SP team that defeated LHS when Sterrett was a seventh- and eighth-grader.

When the weekend ended, Sterrett tallied a total of 12 points in two impressive victories.

Only time will tell what the rest of the season has in store for the LHS girls’ hockey team.

If the first two home games are any indication, I firmly believe more good things are yet to come.

Girls coast to 8-0 win in hockey opener

By John Rittenhouse 11/22/2013, 11:15pm CST

The Luverne girls’ hockey team turned in a commanding performance during its 2013-14 debut at the Blue Mound Ice Arena.

With Makayla Sterrett turning in a seven-point performance and Emilie Bartels registering a shutout in her first varsity start as the LHS goalie to lead the charge, the Cardinals coasted to an 8-0 victory.

Sterrett, who registered two assists in the contest, scored four goals in the first two periods of play and added another in the third period to cap a five-goal night.

Bartels stopped all seven shots she face in net to blank the Eagles in a game in which the Cardinals outshot Windom 45-7.

Sterrett opened the scoring 4:33 into the game with an unassisted goal during a power-play situation.

Sterrett made it 2-0 game with another unassisted tally with 3:57 remaining in the opening stanza before registering an assist for a goal by Madisyn Dingmann 2:03 later that capped a three-goal first period for the hosts.

LHS added three more goals in the second period to up its lead to 6-0.

Carly Serie scored the first goal 2:14 into the second stanza after being set up by Sterrett during a short-handed situation.

Sterrett completed her hat trick with 7:00 remaining in the period before scoring her fourth goal of the game with 1:11 left to play in the stanza.

Luverne added two more goals to its cause in the third period.

Sterrett capped her five-goal night with 13:55 left to play before Madison Crabtree scored the final goal of the game with 9:233 remaining.

Dingmann and Ellen Dahl matched Sterrett by recording two assists each.

Madi Oye and Hailey Sommers added one assist each to the winning effort.

Cardinal girls tame Bulldogs

By John Rittenhouse 11/22/2013, 11:15pm CST

The Luverne girls ran their hockey record to 2-0 with an impressive home performance against Le Sueur-Henderson- St. Peter Saturday.

Sparked by an offensive eruption the included LHS scoring six goals in the first 7:51 of the game, the Cardinals strolled to a commanding 11-2 victory over the Bulldogs.

Makayla Sterrett led the charge by scoring four goals, while Madison Crabtree, Mariah Aukes and Madisyn Dingmann chipped in two goals each.

Aukes and Madi Oye led an LHS team that outshot L-H-SP 38-13 by recording four and two assists respectively.

The Cardinals put the game away early by scoring six goals in a span of 4:33 in the opening period.

Sterrett opened the scoring at the 13:42 mark and Dingmann added a tally 1:03 later to make it 2-0.

Aukes and Madi Oye scored one goal each 58 seconds apart to up Luverne’s lead to 4-0.

Sterrett netted an unassisted tally at the 10-minute mark of the stanza before Crabtree capped the six-goal run with her first tally with 9:09 remaining in the stanza.

L-H-SP’s Chole Bachman snapped the run by scoring with 5:04 remaining in the first period, but the Cards scored four unanswered goals in the second period to open a 10-1 advantage.

Aukes opened the scoring 1:15 into the second period before Sterrett added a pair of unassisted tallies (the second goal was a power-play tally).

Dingmann ended the scoring in the second period with 4:33 remaining in the stanza.

L-H-SP’s Chelsea Kaelberer scored 1:40 into the third period before Crabtree netted the game’s final goal with 14:30 left to play.

Emilie Bartels recorded 11 saves in net for the Cards, who receive one assist each from Sterrett, Dingmann and Carly Serie.

Luverne plays Northern Lakes in Long Prairie Friday.

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