Junior Hockey: WarHawks dominates Blizzard

Jeremiah Konkel and Collin Kerchoff each scored two goals and Brady OBrien scored a goal and four assists for Willmar (3-1). The reported presence was in the 500 Willmar Civic Center area.

Konkel also had four passes. He is a Bloomington striker who played for Willmar last season.

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

OBrien is a defender of White Bear Lake.

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

Alexandria (0-4-0) 0 1 1 2

Willmar (3-1-0) 2 3 5 10

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

SECTION TWO (3) A: Matt McIntyre 2 (Benjamin Tschida 2, Matt Scribner 2) 0:11 (4) W: Luedtke 1 (Nolan Grier 1, Brady OBrien 3) 4:28 PP (5) W: Collin Kerchoff 2 (Konkel 4, Ethan Mock 2) 7:06 (6) W: Read 2 (OBrien 4, Konkel 5) 10:45 PP. PENALTIES: (3) A: Logan Lukasezck (shot-small, 2 min) 2:47 (4) A: Erick Sanborn (shot-small, 2 min) 10:15.

THIRD TIME (7) L: Max Cohen 3 (Elbridge Dekraai 6, Tyler Misialek 1) 1:23 (8) L: Dekraai 2 (Konkel 6, OBrien 5) 3:41 SH (9) A: Kaden Peterson 1 (Ryan Hadland 1 )) 5:28 PP (10) W: OBrien 1 (without assistance) 6:13 SH (11) W: Konkel 5 (OBrien 6, Grier 2) 8:58 PP (12) L: Kerchoff 3 (Konkel 7, Kluesner 1)) 15:47. PENALTIES: (5) W: Dalzell (check from behind the minor, 2 min) 3:07 (6) W: mock (hook-small, 2 min) 4:03 (7) W: Dekraai (disturbance-low, 2 ) min) 4:24 (8) A: Justin Wasvick (hook minor, 2 min) (9) L: Dalzell (knee minor, 2 min) 10:00.

PAINT BENEFITS / PAINTINGS Alexandria: Joey Greilich 37/47 Willmar: Will Kunka 24/26.