Brooke Ammerman notched a hat trick and Brianna Decker tallied three points as No. 1 Wisconsin crushed Robert Morris, 7-1, at the RMU Island Sports Center Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n
In addition to three-point efforts from Ammerman and Decker, Hilary Knight scored two goals, and sophomore Stefanie McKeough posted two assists. Senior Meghan Duggan had one goal and one assist.<\/p>\n
The Badgers jumped out to a 4-0 lead after the first period as Ammerman tallied her third-career hat trick in a span of 9:11 during the opening frame. She scored the first goal of the game off assists from Decker and Duggan on a power-play at 7:35.<\/p>\n
Knight extended UW’s lead to 2-0, scoring her 13th goal of the season at the 11:21 mark. McKeough fed a pass to freshman Kelly Jaminski (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.), who sent a cross-ice pass to Knight inside the right faceoff circle, and Knight beat RMU goaltender Daneca Butterfield on a high shot.<\/p>\n
Ammerman then scored back-to-back goals at 14:44 and 16:47 of the first period, assisted by freshman Madison Packer (Birmingham, Mich.) and sophomore Breann Frykas (East St. Paul, Manitoba), respectively.<\/p>\n
Duggan netted the Badgers’ second power-play goal of the game at the 8:56 mark of the second period, extending UW’s lead to 5-0. McKeough and Decker picked up assists on the play.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin opened the final stanza with two short-handed goals in 31 seconds. UW started the period on the penalty kill, and Decker tallied an unassisted short-handed goal just 29 seconds into the period. Knight then recorded her second tally of the game off a feed from Prevost at the 50-second mark.<\/p>\n
RMU’s Kylie St. Louis scored the final goal of the game, spoiling the Badgers’ shutout with her first career goal with 18:46 remaining. Dayna Newsom and Sara O’Malley assisted on the play.<\/p>\n
Freshman goaltender Alex Rigsby made a career-best 26 saves saves, improving to 6-0-0 on the season. RMU goaltender Daneca Butterfield recorded 38 saves for the Colonials and fell to 0-6-0. The Badgers outshot the Colonials, 45-27.<\/p>\n
The victory marked the UW women’s hockey program’s 300th win, and the Badgers improved to 6-1-0 all-time against Robert Morris.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin and Robert Morris wrap up the nonconference series at 2 p.m. (CT) Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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