Richfield Girls Hockey Team Wins Again

Tuesday night was a good one for the Richfield girls hockey team, as coach Jeff Caspar's club claimed its second win of the season to join the Spartans boys basketball squad as the only local teams to garner victories on the evening.

Richfield Girls Hockey: Spartans 4, C-H-P 0

The Richfield girls hockey team claimed its first shutout of the season and improved to 2-6-2 on the season with a 4-0 win against Cooper/Heritage/Providence at the .

Spartans goaltender Rebecca Hendrickson had by far her easiest night of the season as the senior needed to make just six saves to earn the clean sheet victory.

Offensively for Richfield, forward Miranda Matuke scored twice, with forward Kalie Johnson and defender Alex Westman each contributing one goal apiece on the night.

The Spartans are now off for a week before hosting Holy Family/Waconia on Dec. 21 at 7 p.m.

Richfield Boys Hockey: Waconia 5, Spartans 2

The Richfield hockey team's first trip out of the metropolitan area proved to not be a kind one as the Spartans dropped their second-straight game in a 5-2 loss to Waconia.

Early on, the game was going fairly well for Richfield as the Spartans held a 1-1 tie with the Wildcats after forward Tyler Martinez's goal just nine seconds into the second period.

However, Waconia exploded for four goals in the frame to take a 5-1 lead into the third period, where another Martinez goal could only cut the Wildcats' lead to the eventual final of three scores.

Richfield goaltender Jon McGinness made 24 saves in the loss that dropped the Spartans to 3-2 on the season.

Next up for Richfield is a home matchup against the re-formed St. Paul Highland Park team on Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m. The Scots are fielding an independent varsity team for the first time since 1987 and are 0-4 on the season thus far.

Holy Angels Girls Hockey: Northfield 3, Stars 0

Host Northfield scored one goal in each period to shutout the Holy Angels girls hockey team, 3-0, at the Northfield Ice Arena.

The Stars could not muster a score on any of the 17 shots on the Raiders' goal, while Holy Angels goaltender Kelly Mellon made 24 saves in the loss that dropped her team to 1-5-1 on the year.

Holy Angels returns home to the Richfield Ice Arena to face Wayzata at 7:15 p.m. Thursday night.

Richfield Girls Basketball Game Moved To Wednesday

The Richfield girls basketball team's game at St. Paul Highland Park, originally slated to be played Tuesday night, was moved to Wednesday due to the St. Paul public schools being closed on Tuesday. Game time is 7 p.m.

Results were not available for the Richfield Nordic ski team's Classic Suburban Conference meet at Trollhaugen on Tuesday evening.