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 | 1 Wisconsin 5, St. Cloud State 0
National Hockey Center • St. Cloud, Minn. • Attendance: 253
Box Score | Box Score  |  |
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Final | Wisconsin
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | | St. Cloud State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
| | | Scoring Summary | | 1st | 12:12 | WIS | Knight (Brit. Ammerman, Unser) | | 1st | 13:56 | WIS | Prévost (Decker, Bro. Ammerman) | | 2nd | 3:21 | WIS | Decker (Bro. Ammerman, Prévost) | | 2nd | 8:01 | WIS | Turnbull (Brit. Ammerman, Packer) | | 3rd | 9:22 | WIS | Bro. Ammerman (Prévost, Haverstock) | | | Goaltender Summary | Min | GA | Sv | | WIS | Rigsby (27-2-2) | 60:00 | 0 | 19 | | SCSU | Friend (5-12-0) | 60:00 | 5 | 36 | | Statistical Comparison
| WIS | SCSU | | Shots on Goal | 41 | 19 | | Power Plays | 1-5 | 0-4 | | Penalties-Minutes | 4-8 | 5-10 | | |
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Feb. 9, 2012
ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- Five different players scored goals as the Wisconsin women’s hockey team defeated St. Cloud State, 5-0, Friday night at the National Hockey Center. Brooke Ammerman scored one goal and recorded two assists leaving her just one point shy of reaching 200 career points.
“We’re starting to do the little things and focus in on that we need to play a 60-minute game in order to advance to wherever we want to be,” senior captain Hilary Knight said of the team’s effort in the win. “I think people are really taking ahold of the concept of working hard and competing for every puck.”
| Fast Facts | | • Wisconsin needs one more win to secure at least a share of the WCHA regular season championship | | • Carolyne Prévost scored one goal and tallied two assists | | • Brittany Ammerman extended her scoring streak to five games with two assists | |
Wisconsin (27-2-2; 21-2-2-1 WCHA) now only needs one more win to secure at least a share of the WCHA regular-season championship. St. Cloud State (5-24-2; 4-21-0-0 WCHA) remains in seventh place in the WCHA, three points ahead of last-place Minnesota State.
Sophomore goaltender Alex Rigsby made 19 saves in the win, recording her seventh shutout of the season. Already owning the single-season record for most saves in a single season at UW, Rigsby now has 824 saves on the year and hasn’t conceded a goal since Feb. 3.
“We’ve had pretty good discipline as far as penalties,” Wisconsin head coach Mark Johnson remarked about the defensive effort. “In [last] Sunday’s game against Minnesota State we didn’t take any penalties. Defensively we’ve tightened up and eliminated some of the scoring chances that we maybe would have given up in previous games.
“Rigsby has been seeing the puck well and been consistent all year. She’s been having a great season and hopefully she’ll continue to play this way.”
The Badgers posted two quick goals in the first period with Hilary Knight scoring first at the 12:12 mark. Tallying her 27th goal of the season, Knight now sits one point shy of reaching 250 career points. Carolyne Prévost scored less than two minutes later as the Badgers carried the 2-0 lead into intermission.
In the second period, Brianna Decker and Blayre Turnbull notched goals for the Badgers for a two-period total of four. The second period saw the Badgers and Huskies go toe-to-toe in shots, but Rigsby came through making all 12 saves, while SCSU goaltender Julie Friend only made 10 saves.
Wisconsin outshot St. Cloud State, 12-3, in the final period of play and Brooke Ammerman scored the lone goal of the 20-minute span while on the power play.
The Badgers saw scoring from nine different players in Friday’s win after seeing 10 players record points in the team’s previous game. With a stronger showing of depth on offense in the last few contests, the Badgers are starting to prepare themselves for the rigors of upcoming postseason play.
“It’s a time where everyone has to come together,” Johnson said. “We have three regular-season games left and each one, in itself, has meaning right now. The big thing is to try to take care of the little things and tune-up some things that you may need to work on to become even more difficult team to play against.”
On special teams, the Badgers killed off all four penalties they were assessed in the game and only allowed one shot on goal while St. Cloud State was on the power play. Wisconsin went 1-for-5 on the man-advantage, scoring on the tail-end of a double minor penalty against SCSU’s Katie Allen.
Wisconsin wraps up the series against St. Cloud State tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m. back at the National Hockey Center. The Badgers then return to the Kohl Center for senior day against Ohio State on Feb. 17-18.
