Win tonight means one to go for Cardinal girls

By Tom Obert
Cub Reporter
It didn't take long tonight.
The Cardinal girls hockey team took on the Hutchinson Tigers in a section 2A semi-final at the MAC in St. Cloud. We had barely settled into our seats after the national anthem when Abby Williams scored 26 seconds into the game.
Abby went on to also score the next two goals, thus completing a natural hat trick, and the Toft sisters, Sara and Andrea, combined to score the final goal as the Cards won 4 - 1.

The final score was not indicative of the Cards dominance as they outshot Hutch 52 - 17. The Cards will play the winner of the Totino Grace - Mound Westonka Friday night at the MAC, the winner to advance to the state tournament at the Xcel Center the following weekend.
We fully expect to provide full coverage of the game. In attendance at tonight's game were fellow classmates Bud Bruzek and Sue Graves Seltz - and Bud introduced us to the son of one of our ex-teachers, Ted Lohrman.
Bud had a long lens camera (maybe the cub reporter can latch onto some of his photos, for Bud has finally read the '65 blogsite's coverage of the Cards), realizing that each game could now be daughter Brittney's last.
We are also aware of this "sudden death" status now for each of the team's 11 seniors and are trying to track their respective matriculations. It appears that Brittney will be heading to St. Thomas, primarily to play softball (Bud said Brittney, along with fellow senior hockey players Tiffany Zacher and Michaela Carlson, are the stars of the softball team) but hockey may also be a consideration. The Toft sisters apparently will be taking their skills to Augsberg. And Ahna Olson is considering Bethel, among others, though it is not known if hockey is in her future.