12/7 – #1 Wisconsin 8 – St. Cloud State 2

 

The St. Cloud State women’s hockey team could not recover from four first period goals scored by the #1 ranked Badgers Friday afternoon falling 8-2 to Wisconsin.

 

Three of the four first period goals for Wisconsin came late in the period, led by junior Presley Norby who had two goals of the four goals total in the period.

Goal scoring trends for UW would remain headed into the second, as Annie Pankowski scored her 12^th goal of the season for the Badgers pushing the lead to 5-0. Just minutes later, SCSU’s Hallie Theodosopoulos would find the back of the net for her 9^th goal of the season to cut the lead to 5-1.

 

Wisconsin’s Annie Pankowski would fire in her second goal of the second period to take away any momentum the Huskies collected from the Theodosopoulos goal.

  

A five goal lead into the third period for the Badgers would be extended, as Sophie Shirley found the back of the net to push the lead to 7-1. SCSU’s Laura Kluge would collect the puck after a mistake in the crease by UW’s Kristen Campbell to give the Huskies their second goal of the game.

The Badgers were not done scoring, as Alexis Mauerman would find the second power play goal of the game for the Badgers propelling them to a 8-2 victory at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center Friday afternoon.

 

Emma Polusny in goal for SCSU came up with 42 saves but suffered her 6^th loss in goal on the season for SCSU.

 

12/8 – #1 Wisconsin 3 – St. Cloud State 1

 

St. Cloud State battled to the end in a strong performance against the #1 ranked Badgers but came up short falling 3-1 completing the weekend sweep for Wisconsin.

 

The visiting team appeared to be keeping the first period scoring trend from Friday’s win going in Saturday’s battle, with freshman Britta Curl finding the back of the net just 6 minutes into the game giving a quick 1-0 lead to Wisconsin.

 

Despite the early setback, St. Cloud State played a very strong defensive effort keeping the Badgers at bay. Janine Alder was solid in goal the entire game for SCSU, stopping 22 Wisconsin shots alone in the second period. This led to the Huskies finding their only goal of the game, as Janna Haeg tipped in a shot from the blue line to tie the game at 2 in the 2^nd period on the power play.

 

Haeg’s goal gave the Huskies life and momentum headed into the third period but it was not enough to hold off the offensive powerhouse of the Badgers. Wisconsin defender Mekenzie Steffen found the game winning goal with just over 7 minutes remaining in the third period. Annie Pankowski would find an empty net goal late for the Badgers to seal the game for UW.

 

Janine Alder was outstanding in goal for the Huskies, finishing the game with 46 saves.

 

With the win, Wisconsin extends its current win streak to 10. SCSU falls in a losing slump of four straight after getting swept in WCHA play two weekends in a row.

 

The Huskies are back on the ice December 29^th and 30^th in a non-conference match up with Lindenwood at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center.