WINONA, Minn. – Friday in Winona, the College of Saint Benedict hockey team gave up a trio of first-period goals in a MIAC loss to Saint Mary's. Saturday in Winona, CSB flipped the tables on the Cardinals.
CSB scored three first-period goals – including two in the first seven minutes of play – en route to a 5-1 win over Saint Mary's to pick up the team's third win of the season. Saint Benedict is now 3-4-1 overall and 2-3-1 in the MIAC. Four different players scored for Saint Benedict in the win, and three others had assists.
First year
Julia Pias led the CSB offense Saturday with a pair of goals and an assist to move into the team lead with four goals, three assists and seven points on the season. It is the first multi-goal game of her career. She got CSB on the board at the 3:59 mark of the first period on assists from
Annika Brodt and
Myka Stave, and it was Stave scored the eventual game-winner at the 7:02 mark on an unassisted goal to put CSB up 2-0. The assist on Pias' goal marked the first of her career, and her goal three minutes later was also a career first for the sophomore.
CSB didn't let up there. With just under two minutes left in the first period, Brodt notched the second goal of her collegiate career to put CSB up 3-0. Pias and
Mollie Wise registered assists on the goal. Saint Benedict made it 4-0 early in the fourth when Pias scored her second goal of the game and fourth of the season on a power play at the 4:14 mark.
Zoe Culshaw-Klein and
Rylan Bistodeau both had assists on the goal.
Saint Mary's (3-6, 1-5) avoided the shutout with a goal at the 3:18 mark of the third period, but Saint Benedict added one last goal for good measure at the 13:39 mark of the final period when
Courtney Conlin scored unassisted. That marked her third goal of the season.
CSB outshot the Cardinals 25-23. Conlin led the team with six shots on net and Brodt, Pias and
Mariah Reed all had three. Medved had 22 saves and picked up her third win of the season. She had nine saves in the first period to keep SMU off the board, and added six and seven in the second and third periods.
Saturday's game marked the last of the calendar year for Saint Benedict, which is off now until Jan. 4-6 when it plays a trio of games on back-to-back-to-back days. The team is in Stevens Point, Wis., for a tournament Jan. 4-5 where it takes on Marian and UW-Stevens Point, then heads to Northfield for a nonconference matchup with St. Olaf in the team's new rink on campus.
