Lady Saints Fall, Tie Lake Forest

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women’s hockey team played Lake Forest College (Ill.) to a 2-2 tie Friday night in Illinois.

The Foresters led after one period as Erin Shamley scored a power-play goal midway through the opening period. Lake Forest had a 7-5 advantage in shots in the first 20 minutes.

The Saints were only able to get four shots off in the second period, but made one of them count as Abby Sawyer (Owatonna, Minn./Owatonna HS) knotted the game at 1-1 with a power-play goal of her own seven minutes into the period. Taylor Guzzo (Silver Bay, Minn./William Kelley HS (UW-River Falls)) and Amanda Broman (Mankato, Minn./Mankato East HS) had the assists.

It remained 1-1 until Brandi Malwitz (Thief River Falls, Minn./Lincoln HS) gave St. Scholastica its first lead of the night with 7:16 remaining in the third to make it 2-1. Katie Josephson (Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) and Kaleigh Hamann (St. Michael, Minn./St. Michael-Albertville HS) had the assists.

However, the Foresters tied the game with 2:41 remaining in regulation when Allie Girard found the back of the net. CSS had a power-play after the tying goal, but could not capitalize as the contest went to overtime.

In overtime, both teams would hit some iron as Nikki Logergren (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS (Northern Stars)) and Allie Girard both struck the pipe. In the end, neither team would find the back of the net and the game ended in a 2-2 tie.

Lake Forest out-shot the Saints 34-16 in the contest. Lindsey Hartfiel (Big Lake, Minn./Buffalo HS) had 32 saves for the Saints, while Allie Carter had 14 saves for the Foresters.

St. Scholastica women’s hockey suffered its second loss of the season to Lake Forest College 3-1 on Saturday night in a Northern Collegiate Hockey Association matchup.

Melissa Paluch got the scoring started for the Foresters with her third goal of the season at 15:08 of the first period with Holly Lesperance adding the assist on the goal.

CSS struggled offensively in the opening period only managing five shots compared to 12 shots for Lake Forest.

In the second period the Foresters doubled their lead on a goal from Allie Girard. Emily Wybo and Kayla Griffith were credited with assists.

The Saints would finally break the shutout in the third period with Nina Waidacher (Arosa, Switzerland/Wirtschaftschule KV Chur (ZSC Lions/Swiss U18 National)) scoring her NCHA leading eighth goal of the season. Nikki Logergren (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS (Northern Stars)) picked up the assist on the goal.

Despite registering 11 shots in the third period alone, the Saints were unable to score the tying goal. Michelle Greeneway iced the game for the Foresters with 40 seconds remaining by adding an empty-net goal to make the score 3-1.

Kristen Hunt (Winnipeg, Manitoba/West Kildonan) made 27 saves for St. Scholastica in a losing effort. The loss is Hunt’s first of the year in four starts.

Casey Hartfiel made 24 saves for Lake Forest in her third start of the season.

CSS drops to 5-2-1 overall on the season and in the conference but remain tied for first place in the NCHA standings with Adrian College.

The Saints travel to Adrian, Michigan next weekend to take on the Adrian College Bulldogs in a two-game series starting on Saturday night with puck drop at 7 p.m. (ET).