ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Friday night in St. Paul, the College of Saint Benedict hockey team held on for a one-goal win over St. Kate's after holding on to the one-goal lead throughout a frantic third period.
Saturday in St. Cloud, the two teams played the entire game at that frantic pace.
CSB and St. Kate's combined for 17 penalties, eight goals and 67 shots on net as Saint Benedict fell 6-2 to the Wildcats at the MAC in St. Cloud. Five of the eight goals – including both of Saint Benedict's goals – came on the power play, and there were several 3-on-5 opportunities for each team. CSB is now 7-9-1 overall and 4-7-1 in the MIAC.
Saint Benedict killed off two 3-on-5 situation early in the first period, and midway through both teams were called for penalties and the Wildcats scored during the 4-on-4 to go up 1-0.
Maggie Gilchrist made 14 first-period saves to keep her team in the game, but St. Kate's opened the floodgates in the second. Laken Muller – who scored the Wildcats' first goal – notched a hat trick with a pair of goals in the first four minutes of the second period, and St. Kate's added power-play goals at the 10:56 mark and 12:11 mark of the second to go up 5-0.
The Wildcats added one more goal – another power-play goal – in the third at the 10:29 mark before CSB got on the board. With two Wildcats in the penalty box,
Myka Stave notched her second goal of the season off an assist from
Maria Wallace, and less than 45 seconds later
Annika Brodt scored off assists from
Maddie Dockry and
Julia Pias to give CSB its second power-play goal of the game.
The Wildcats (5-12-2, 2-8-1) had 43 shots to CSB's 24. Gilchrist finished with 26 saves before coming out of the game in the second period, and
Kailee Medved made 11 saves in 27 minutes of action. Brodt had four shots on net for CSB and Stave had three.
CSB wraps up the regular season against three of the top teams in the league, starting with Augsburg. The two teams play at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in St. Cloud and again Saturday afternoon in Minneapolis.
