Willis Kantonen scored two goals and Tyler Ampe made 17 saves as fourth-ranked Hermantown edged No. 6 Virginia-Mountain Iron-Buhl 4-2 in a high school boys hockey nonconference game Tuesday night at Hermantown.
The Hawks improved to 5-1 and dropped the Blue Devils to 6-3-1.
Cloquet-Esko-Carlton 7,
Duluth Central 1
The Lumberjacks' first five goals all came on the power play and Corbin Morse added his second goal shorthanded as Cloquet-Esko-Carlton won the LSC game at Heritage Center.
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The Trojans (5-1, 0-1) had their five-game season-opening win streak snapped, though their conference winless streak reached eight.
Duluth East 2, Moorhead 2
Despite a 41-19 edge in shots on goal, the 12th-ranked Greyhounds only managed a tie against the No. 15 Spuds at Heritage Center.
Boys basketball
Duluth East 69,
Duluth Central 44
Dyami Starks scored 31 points to inch closer to 2,000 for his career and the visiting Greyhounds won the next-to-last meeting between the schools.
Starks, the Columbia-bound senior, is within 50 of reaching the milestone previously attained only by Rick Rickert and Cory Johnson at East.
