Staff photo by Ari Selvey New Ulm’s Keaton Weston (15) battles for possession of the puck during a Big South Conference boys hockey game against Luverne Friday at the New Ulm Civic Center.

NEW ULM — Luverne scored four unanswered goals to erase a 1-0 New Ulm lead and went on to down the Eagles 5-2 Friday night in a Big South Conference boys hockey game at the New Ulm Civic Center.

Landyn Lais scored two goals for the conference-leading Cardinals, who improved to 10-0 in conference play and 16-2 overall.

Carson Uecker scored both goals for New Ulm, who dropped to 9-8 overall and 6-3 in conference action.

Brody Nordby had two assists with Ian Brudelie and Kaden Klein each getting a helper.

Luverne goalie Gavin Hoven stopped 35 of 37 New Ulm shots.

Jayden Grunst stopped 19 of 23 Cardinals shots with Graham Glaser stopping four of five Luverne shots.

“I thought that we played a good game overall,” New Ulm head coach Ryan Neuman said. “Their late goal at the end of the first period kind of took our momentum away as we were kind of taking it to them. We won a clean face-off and it ends up all the way the other end — we made our one mistake of that first period, and it ended up in the back of our net.”

Blake Sauer’s goal off-set Uecker’s goal to tie the game after the first 17 minutes.

But it seemed to give Luverne some momentum as they scored two goals — one on a power play — to take a 3-1 lead after two periods.

“I don’t think that they took control in that [second] period,” Neuman said. “We were a little flatter. It did go back and forth and I think that their late goal in the first period kind of took momentum away from us.”

Luverne used a Will Bergman goal five minutes into the third period to take a 4-1 lead before Uecker connected on his second goal of the game to pull the Eagles to within 4-2 at the 7:01 mark.

But any momentum that New Ulm may have gotten from Uecker’s goal was erased 27 seconds later by Lais’ second goal of the game and a 5-2 lead.

“They had two wrap-around goals — you do not want to let them in — so we have to clean some things up,” Neuman said. “We need to score when we have our chances.”

New Ulm was ineffective on the power play, going 0-6 with a man advantage.

“Today was the first day of running a new [power play] unit out there,” Neuman said. “I thought that we moved the puck well. We just have to generate more scoring chances.”

New Ulm plays Tuesday at Providence Academy.