Benilde-St. Margaret's Boys' Hockey

Benilde-St. Margaret's wrapped up a successful northern road trip by handing Hibbing an 8-0 loss at the historic Hibbing Memorial Arena.

Unlike a night earlier, when the Red Knights registered a 6-1 win behind the scoring of it's big names, getting five goals from Grant Besse and Spencer Naas, there were contributions from a number of players.

Besse scored twice and Naas had a goal, but Nate Meyer scored twice, including a short-handed goal, and Evan Fleming had a goal and two assists to help lead the scoring parade.

It was Besse's goal off a goalmouth feed from Naas, six minutes, six seconds into the game that got the scoring started for the visitors.

Just 63 seconds later, Chris Hickok won a faceoff on the left side of the offensive zone. He and Alec Baer worked the puck back and forth in the left corner before Hickok took the puck behind the net, came out the right side and got the puck past Bluejacket goalie Tyler Carlson.

Meyer's first goal of the game came at 8:20 off a Chase Jungels assist and finished Carlson's day after he had faced 12 shots.

Seth Chumley got in on the scoring act with 2:16 remaining in the opening frame when he converted a rebound from Fleming to send BSM into the first intermission with a 4-0 lead.

Besse, whose first-period goal was the 128th of his career and moved him into sole possession of 12th place on the state's all-time goal-scoring list, added his 14th goal of the season 3:50 into the second period and, with 3:52 to play in the middle stanza, during the game's only power-play, Nate Meyer made a short-handed rush up the right-wing boards after getting a pass from Johnny Austin to spring him loose, and he wristed a shot into the back of the net from the right circle.

With running time in effect for the third period due to the Red Knights' six-goal lead, they added two more in the final frame as Fleming scored his first of the season and Naas regained a share of the team lead with his 14th goal of the season.

Picking up where he left off last night, which end in a 37-save effort, Andrew Sprang stopped 20 shots through two periods before giving way to Paul Lundberg for the final 17 minutes. Lundberg completed the shutout by stopping four shots.

The Red Knights return to action, Thursday, when they take part in the three-day Sports Authority Hockey Holiday Classic. BSM opens play with a 5 p.m. game versus Lakeville North at the St. Louis Park Rec Center.