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St. Thomas at (1) Wisconsin<\/b><\/p>\n
Six different players scored on Friday to carry Wisconsin to a 6-1 win. Claire Enright, Kirsten Simms, Lacey Eden, Cassie Hall, Kelly Gorbatenko and Finley McCarthy each lit the lamp for the Badgers. Chloe Boreen was the goal scorer for the Tommies in the loss. Wisconsin jumped out early in the second game as Casey O\u2019Brien scored just 52 seconds into the first period to put the home team up 1-0. But St. Thomas tightened up on defense as Dani Strom made 14 saves the rest of the period and the defense kept the Badgers off the board. In the second, Maddie Brown tied the game 1-1 with a great effort, putting back a second chance opportunity. Less than two minutes later, Cassie Hall gave Wisconsin the 2-1 lead and Laila Edwards extended the lead to 3-1 before the midpoint of the game. With her assist on that goal, O\u2019Brien set a new program record for career assists with 139. Brown scored her second of the game on another second-chance opportunity to make it a 3-2 game heading into the second intermission. In the third, KK Harvey put a shot through traffic during the power play into the back of the net for her 100th career point. She became the fifth ever Wisconsin defender to reach the century mark and is the fastest defender to do it. O\u2019Brien topped off a two-goal, two-assist game by scoring later in the third to give Wisconsin a 5-2 win and weekend sweep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (2) Ohio State at Minnesota State<\/b><\/p>\n Sophomore goalie Hailey Hansen had 36 and Mankato held Ohio State off the board into the third period on Friday night. The Buckeyes outshot the Mavericks 38-16, but MSU\u2019s defense stood strong. Jocelyn Amos broke the stalemate early in the third period, cleaning up a loose puck to make it 1-0 OSU. It looked like that might be enough, but Alexis Paddington came through clutch for the Mavericks, scoring with 46.4 seconds left in regulation to force overtime. It looked like Taylor Otremba was going to win the game for Minnesota State in the extra frame on a great pass from Madison Mashuga, but her shot hit the post. Ohio State did not leave anything else up to chance and Joy Dunne showed off some great skating and puck handling to end the game on the other end shortly after to give the Buckeyes the 2-1 OT win. The Mavericks did not let up on Saturday. Claire Vekich scored early in the first, finding open ice in the high slot to one-time a pass from Otremba to put Minnesota State up 1-0. That tally would hold up for more than 40 minutes as MSU fought for possession, kept OSU from getting many shots off and were able to dictate some of the game. The Mavericks extended their lead to 2-0 early in the third with a goal from Otremba, but Ohio State responded as Maddi Wheeler put back a rebound to make it a 2-1 game. But after the near miss on Friday it was as if Otremba was determined to earn the win on Saturday. With four minutes left on the clock, she trailed a play built by Whitney Tuttle and Mashuga and showed great awareness, keeping an eye on the puck and tucking a rebound around a defender to make it 3-1. Mashuga added an empty netter and Minnesota State completed the upset 4-1 win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (3) Minnesota vs. (10) St. Cloud State<\/b><\/p>\n Minnesota scored just 23 seconds into the game on Friday to set the tone for a mostly back and forth game. Abby Promersberger scored for SCSU on the power play to tie the game 1-1 with under five to play in the first, but Ava Lindsay\u2019s goal shortly after made it a 2-1 game for the Gophers heading into the first intermission even though St. Cloud had a 14-12 shot advantage. Abbey Murphy extended Minnesota\u2019s lead to 3-1 early in the second, but the Huskies fought back again, as Ally Qualley scored on the power play to make it 3-2 going into the second intermission. Murphy put the game away in the final frame, scoring on the power play to make it 4-2 and securing a hat trick with an empty-netter to give the Gophers the 5-2 win. The second game of the series was at St. Cloud and despite outshooting the home team 23-8 and having two power plays, the Gophers were held off the board in the first. Midway through the second, Promersberger took off on a breakaway and did not miss, giving St. Cloud the 1-0 lead. Early in the third, Brieja Parent deflected in the puck to put the Huskies up 2-0. Less than two minutes later, Avery Farrell\u2019s shot hit off a Minnesota skate and found the back of the net and made it 3-0 SCSU. Nat\u00e1lie Ml\u00fdnkov\u00e1 pulled one back for the Gophers a few minutes later, but they could not close the gap any further and St. Cloud earned their first series split with the Gophers and their first win at home against them since Feb. 2010.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Bemidji State at (4) Minnesota Duluth<\/b><\/p>\n In game one, Olivia Wallin scored her first career hat trick and the third goal was her 100th career point as UMD dominated the Beavers 8-1. Tova Henderson lit the lamp twice while Mary Kate O’Brien and Olivia Mobley each had a goal and an assist in the Bulldogs\u2019 win. Shelby Breiland was the goal scorer for Bemidji State in the loss. On Saturday, Bemidji did a great job of clogging the middle, blocking 18 shots. Minnesota Duluth scored twice – Henderson on the power play and Mobley in the second, but that was enough to take the win and weekend sweep.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (5) Colgate at Princeton<\/b><\/p>\n A fast-paced, back-and-forth match saw Princeton tally the last and most important goal on Friday to win 4-3 in OT. Teja Gatfield scored her first collegiate goal midway through the first on the power play to put the Tigers up 1-0. The Raiders replied with an extra attacker tally of their own two minutes later thanks to Kalty Kaltounkov\u00e1. In the second, Mackenzie Alexander used her speed and a gorgeous toe drag to beat the defense and put Princeton up 2-1. Michelle Palumbo tied the game a few minutes later, putting back a rebound from a Kaia Malachino shot. Sarah Paul\u2019s late goal from the slot put Princeton up 3-2 heading into the second intermission. Alexis Petford ripped a shot from the right side boards midway through the third to tie the game and force overtime. Issy Wunder ended the game with 90 seconds left in the extra frame, carrying it from behind her own blue line and using a gorgeous move to beat the defender and go in alone on goal to give the Tigers the 4-3 win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (5) Colgate at (7) Quinnipiac<\/b><\/p>\n Quinnipiac struck first when Kendall Cooper\u2019s shot snuck into the back of the net midway through the first. Colgate tied the game up on Kalty Kaltounkov\u00e1\u2019s power play goal and that\u2019s how the teams headed into the first intermission. The Bobcats had a goal called back to start the second and there would be no scoring in the middle frame. Early in the third, Colgate took the lead on a break by Alexis Petford and Neena Brick that Brick buried to make it 2-1. Kaltounkov\u00e1 scored another power play goal with five to play to make it 3-1 and Emma Pais added an empty-netter to secure the 4-1 win. Kaltounkov\u00e1 became the first Raider in program history to score 100 career goals and is the only active NCAA Division I skater to reach that plateau.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (6) Clarkson at Brown<\/b><\/p>\n Led by Anne Cherkowski\u2019s two goals and an assist, Clarkson took a 4-1 win on Friday. Rhea Hicks opened the scoring at the start of the second, taking advantage of a turnover behind the net to make it 1-0. Cherkowski\u2019s first came on the power play as she used a screen to make it 2-0. In the final minute of the second, Ava DeCoste\u2019s shot deflected off a skate into the net to cut into the lead and make it 2-1. But the Golden Knights did not let it get any closer than that. Haley Winn wristed a shot on the power play to make it 3-1. Cherkowski closed out the scoring after Sidney Fess carried the puck from the defensive zone and fed her as pass she backhanded into the net to give Clarkson the win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (6) Clarkson at Yale<\/b><\/p>\n Like in their Friday game, Yale jumped out to an early lead. Carina DiAntonio cleaned up a loose puck on the backhand and Naomi Boucher had a rebound full right on her stick to put the Bulldogs up 2-0. Kirstyn McQuigge\u2019s wrister through traffic cut the lead to 2-1 heading into the first intermission. In the second period, Raedyn Spademan\u2019s pretty toe drag and backhand tied the game 2-2. The Golden Knights took the lead after killing a penalty on Haley Winn. Winn herself scored just after exiting the box to go up 3-2. Despite a long stretch with the player advantage, Yale struggled to get the puck on net in the early third. DiAntonio tied the game on a great personal effort to tie the game 3-3 with under seven to play in regulation. In overtime, Anne Cherkowski was joined on a break by Caroline Goffredo. The game-winner was scored when Cherkowski\u2019s pass went off Goffredo\u2019s skate and into the net to give Clarkson the 4-3 OT win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (8) Cornell at (7) Quinnipiac<\/b><\/p>\n Alyssa Regalado opened the scoring for Cornell in the first, but Quinnipiac replied quickly as Makayla Watson created a turnover and then ripped a shot from the far boards to tie the game 1-1. Kahlen Marche added a power play goal with 8.4 seconds left in the first to make it 2-1 heading into the intermission. Bryn Prier doubled the lead, tipping in a shot from Kendall Cooper late in the second to make it 3-1 Quinnipiac heading into the third. The Big Red found their rhythm as Gabbie Rud fed first Rory Guilday and then Avi Adam two minutes apart to even the score 3-3. An overtime period did not decide a winner and this ended a 3-3 tie. In the shootout, Piper Grober and Karel Prefontaine scored while Annelies Bergmann stopped two of Quinnipiac’s shots to earn the shootout win for the Big Red.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (8) Cornell at Princeton<\/b><\/p>\n Princeton looked to be well in control of this game after scoring twice in the opening period on goals from Katherine Khramtsov and Issy Wunder and taking a 3-0 lead less than three minutes into the third on a goal from Mackenzie Alexander. But Cornell decided that\u2019s not how things were going to go down. The Big Red reeled off four goals in just more than eight minutes in the second half of the second period to take a 4-3 lead. Lily Delianedis started the flurry and Karel Prefontaine lit the lamp just 95 seconds later. Claudia Yu scored the first of her season to tie the game and Avi Adam\u2019s power play goal would prove to be the game winner. Neither team could score in the third, giving Cornell the come-from-behind win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (9) St. Lawrence at Yale<\/b><\/p>\n Emma-Sofie Nordstr\u00f6m matched her season-high 37 saves while Abby Hehl and Katina Duscio each had a goal and an assist to lead the Saints to a 2-1 win on Friday. Yale pulled back a goal late when Jordan Ray scored on the power play, but it was not enough to overcome SLU\u2019s early goals and St. Lawrence took the win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (9) St. Lawrence at Brown<\/b><\/p>\n SLU hit the post a few times early before Abby Hehl got her third point of the weekend off a pass from Tori Verbeek. But the lead lasted just 36 seconds before Jade Iginla evened the score from the slot. Neither team could find an advantage, even after overtime, though the Saints pinged the posts a few more times. In the shootout, Kassidy Lawrence made four saves and Kiley Mastel, Sarah Thompson and Hehl each scored to give St. Lawrence the win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n (11) Boston College vs. (14) Connecticut (home and home)<\/b><\/p>\n Claire Murdoch\u2019s power play goal had UConn up 1-0 early in the first game of the weekend. Lauren Glaser\u2019s top shelf shot from distance tied the game, sending the teams to the first intermission tied 1-1. The Huskies took the lead on a stretch pass from Meghane Duchesne-Chalifoux right to Livvy Dewar, who beat the defense and the goalie to make it 2-1. In the closing minutes of the second, Julia Pellerin beat the defense to score short-handed to make it a 2-2 game at the second intermission. The game winner came on a misplayed puck by UConn goalie Megan Warrener behind the net. Glaser was coming strong on the forecheck and had an easy tap in to make it 3-2. Boston College stepped up on defense to close out the game and that\u2019s all they\u2019d need to earn the win. On Saturday, Maya Serdachny\u2019s seeing eye shot from the point put UConn up 1-0 six minutes into the first. Boston College tied the game in the final seconds of the period as Keri Clougherty completed a 3-on-2 breakout to make it 1-1. Ashley Allard crept into the slot and slapped home a pass from Mila Josifovic to put Connecticut ahead 2-1 with under four to play in the fourth and that\u2019s all the Huskies would need to earn a win and split the weekend series.<\/span> Robert Morris at (12) Penn State<\/b><\/p>\n <\/b>In game one, Maddy Christian scored twice while Stella Retrum, Brianna Books and Tessa Janecke each lit the lamp to lead the Nittany Lions to 5-0 win. Lucy Phillips made 38 saves for RMU in the loss. In the second game, Katie DeSea earned her third shootout of the season and the program\u2019s first back to back shutouts in two years. Alyssa Machado, Kendall Butze, Grace Outwater and Janecke all scored to make it a 4-0 win.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" St. Thomas at (1) Wisconsin Six different players scored on Friday to carry Wisconsin to a 6-1 win. Claire Enright, Kirsten Simms, Lacey Eden, Cassie Hall, Kelly Gorbatenko and Finley McCarthy each lit the lamp for the Badgers. Chloe Boreen was the goal scorer for the Tommies in the loss. Wisconsin jumped out early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":149885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[949],"tags":[819],"coauthors":[823],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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