Bemidji State started slow again Saturday, giving up an early goal to Ohio State. But the team used a dominant second period to beat Ohio State 4-2 and take three points on the weekend series.<\/p>\n
After a night were the teams’ play mirrored each other, the Beavers stepped their game up to take sole position of third place in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.<\/p>\n
The Buckeyes found the net first to take 1-0 first-period lead. Jana Harrigan scored her fourth goal of the season off a Jennifer Desson rebound to beat Beaver goaltender Anik Cot\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Coming into the second period down 1-0, the Beavers skated to arguably their best individual period of play this season. They outshot the Buckeyes 17-12 and scored four goals.<\/p>\n
Katie Ward led the Beaver scoring attack as she scored her first goal of the season, to tie the game 1-1. At the 2:33 mark of the period, Amber Fryklund faked the shot and passed to Ward to beat the OSU goaltender Natalie Lamme.<\/p>\n
Fryklund would again be in on the scoring as she beat her former Hibbing High School teammate, Lamme, for an unassisted goal at the 3:44 mark. The goal gave the Beavers a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Guylaine Hach\u00e9 scored her fourth goal of the season at the 13:23 as Fryklund recorded her second assist of the game and Lisa Peters added an assist. Just 24 seconds later (13:47) the Beavers would find the net when senior assistant captain Betsy Hegland scored her first goal of the season as Caesare Stimson fed her the pass on a 2-1 break.<\/p>\n
The Beavers took a 4-1 lead into the second intermission.<\/p>\n
Beginning the third period with a three-goal lead is something that Bemidji State has not done much this year.<\/p>\n
“We played a good second period and wanted to play the third period smart and I think we did that,” said head coach Bruce Olson. <\/p>\n
The Buckeyes would score another goal to move within two goals when Emma Laaksonen beat Cot\u00e9 at the 12:42 mark of the period. In a last-ditch effort to gain ground, Ohio State pulled the goaltender with 2:05 remaining. The Beavers held off the Ohio State charge to get the win.<\/p>\n
“This was a a good step for us, confidence-wise,” said Olson. “It was a really gutty performance and a good team effort. We did a good job bottling them up and Anik played well in the net.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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