MOORHEAD, Minn. – The College of Saint Benedict hockey team kept its current win streak alive Friday evening with a 4-2 MIAC win at Concordia.
Four different Bennies scored to help the team push its win streak to four games – the longest winning streak for CSB since the 2008-09 season when it won a trio of exhibition games before sweeping Augsburg. Saint Benedict is now 9-7 overall and 5-4 in the MIAC.
CSB outshot the Cobbers (6-12, 2-9) 12-3 in the first period, and sophomore
Corrine Brown got the Bennies on the board in the 12
th minute of the period off assists from
Brynn Sexauer and
Ava Stinnett. That 1-0 lead held until the final two minutes of the second period when the Cobbers scored for the first time to tie the game at 1-1.
Brown and Sexauer flipped roles in the third as Sexauer scored off an assist from Brown at the 1:56 mark of the third to make it a 2-1 game, and first year
Aurora Opsahl scored the eventual game-winner just over two minutes later at the 4:19 mark off an assist from
Isabelle Heim.
Concordia scored again less than two minutes later to make it a one-goal game once again, but the Cobbers pulled their goal with just under a minute and a half left to play, and
Shauna Miller scored an empty net goal with four seconds left to play to seal the win.
Junior goalie
Ally Frantzick made 35 saves to help CSB hold on for the win, including 19 saves in the second period alone. The Bennies had 30 shots to the Cobbers' 37, and
Annika Brodt led the team with four shots on net.
The two teams play again at 2 p.m. Saturday in Moorhead. The Bennies are trying to hit the 10-win mark for the seventh time in program history and just the second time since 2001-02.
