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 Box Score |
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 Saint Benedict |
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3 |
3 |
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 St. Catherine |
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St. Paul, Minn. - The Saint Benedict hockey team continued its hot streak with a big win over St. Catherine tonight (Nov 30). The Blazers and Wildcats were both held scoreless until the third period where the Blazers broke out with three goals, ending the game with a final score of 3-0.
After entering the game with a perfect record in MIAC play, the Wildcats fall to 4-1 in the conference and 4-2 overall. The Blazers meanwhile, win their second straight and improve to 3-2-3 on the year and 2-2-1 in league action.
Also their second straight shutout, the Blazers have now allowed just one goal over the past three games, going 2-0-1 during the stretch.
Leading the charge for the Blazers was sophomore forward
Tara Frey who scored 7:05 into the third period with an assist from
Siri Berg-Moberg. Allyson Nielsen followed that up with a goal assisted by
Alli O'Brien and
Megan Schwegman with a little less than four minutes remaining in the period. Neilsen and the Blazers continued to pile it on with an empty netter, assisted by
Megan Brettingen.
Jenna Traut, a sophomore from St. Cloud, Minn., captured her second consecutive shutout as well as the second shutout of her career. Traut, who is having a breakout season early on, compiled 25 saves for the victorious Blazers. On the opposite side of the ice was the Wildcat goaltender Samantha Geissler who allowed two goals off of 27 shots.
Traut has now gone more than two games without allowing a goal, as her last came during the Blazers 1-1 tie at Augsburg on Nov. 16. The Blazers did not record a single shutout last season.
With two goals, tonight marked the first multi-goal game of Nielson's career, while all four of her points on the season have come in the Blazers' last two games. She becomes just the third Blazer on the season with two goals in a game, and the first since Nov. 8.
The only thing that the Wildcats led the game in was in faceoffs, the Blazers won 25 with the Wildcats taking 27. Brettingen contributed heavily to the Blazers in that department, winning 16 of her 28 total faceoffs.
The Blazers will next take the ice at 4 p.m. on Dec. 1 as they come back home to the MAC to finish the series against St. Kate's.
