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Junior Hockey: WarHawks dominate Blizzard

tom elliott, west central tribune, willmar, minn.
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Oct. 4—WILLMAR — The Willmar WarHawks junior hockey team enjoyed a dominant home-opener Saturday night, beating the Alexandria Blizzard 10-2.

Jeremiah Konkel and Collin Kerchoff each scored two goals and Brady O'Brien had a goal and four assists for Willmar (3-1). The announced attendance was 500 at the Willmar Civic Center Area.

Konkel also had four assists. He's a forward from Bloomington who played for Willmar last season.

Kerchoff is a forward from White Lake, Wisconsin. He played five games for the Chippewa Steel in the NAHL in 2019-20.

O'Brien is a defenseman from White Bear Lake.

Willmar is host to the New Ulm Steel at 7:10 p.m. Friday. The WarHawks then play at 7:10 p.m. Saturday against Alexandria (0-4) at the Runestone Community Center.

Willmar 10,

Alexandria 2

Alexandria (0-4-0) 0 1 1 — 2

Willmar (3-1-0) 2 3 5 — 10

FIRST PERIOD — (1) W: Jeremiah Konkel 4 (Tate Hammitt 3, Enzo Tarducci 3) 0:50 ... (2) W: Luke Johnson 1 (Caleb Roehrich 3, Ben Luedtke 3) 1:45. PENALTIES: (1) W: Teddy Kluesner (too many men-minor, 2 min) 2:53 ... (2) W: Zach Dalzell (high sticking-minor, 2 min) 13:46.

SECOND PERIOD — (3) A: Matt McIntyre 2 (Benjamin Tschida 2, Matt Scribner 2) 0:11 ... (4) W: Luedtke 1 (Nolan Grier 1, Brady O'Brien 3) 4:28 PP ... (5) W: Collin Kerchoff 2 (Konkel 4, Ethan Mock 2) 7:06 ... (6) W: Luedtke 2 (O'Brien 4, Konkel 5) 10:45 PP. PENALTIES: (3) A: Logan Lukasezck (tripping-minor, 2 min) 2:47 ... (4) A: Erick Sanborn (tripping-minor, 2 min) 10:15.

THIRD PERIOD — (7) W: Max Cohen 3 (Elbridge Dekraai 6, Tyler Misialek 1) 1:23 ... (8) W: Dekraai 2 (Konkel 6, O'Brien 5) 3:41 SH ... (9) A: Kaden Peterson 1 (Ryan Hadland 1) 5:28 PP ... (10) W: O'Brien 1 (unassisted) 6:13 SH ... (11) W: Konkel 5 (O'Brien 6, Grier 2) 8:58 PP ... (12) W: Kerchoff 3 (Konkel 7, Kluesner 1) 15:47. PENALTIES: (5) W: Dalzell (checking from behind-minor, 2 min) 3:07 ... (6) W: Mock (hooking-minor, 2 min) 4:03 ... (7) W: Dekraai (interference-minor, 2 min) 4:24 ... (8) A: Justin Wasvick (hooking-minor, 2 min) ... (9) W: Dalzell (kneeing-minor, 2 min) 10:00.

GOALIE SAVES/SHOTS — Alexandria: Joey Greilich 37/47 ... Willmar: Will Kunka 24/26.