No. 1 Badgers fight for 4-1 victory in Mankato

Friday, February 13

Mankato, MN

3 p.m.

Wisconsin Badgers

26-3-2, 20-3-2

Minnesota State

13-16-2, 7-16-2

Wisconsin

Minnesota St.

The Badgers celebrate a Cassie Hall goal against MSU on 2/13/26

No. 1 Badgers fight for 4-1 victory in Mankato

February 13, 2026 | Women's Hockey

Box Score

UW opens series against MSU with 4-1 win

By: Jake Ross

MANKATO, Minn. — The No. 1 Wisconsin women's hockey team (26-3-2, 20-3-2) worked its way to a 4-1 victory over Minnesota State at Mayo Clinic Event Center in Mankato this Friday.

The Badgers remain atop the WCHA standings with their win. UW capitalizes on special teams, scoring both a power-play and short-handed goal in the contest.

The game started fast, with few stoppages through the first fifteen minutes of the game. The Badgers began the action when Marianne Picard, who missed the last month of play with injury, scored the first goal of the game.

Picard didn't stop after that, as a few minutes later she hit a streaking Finley McCarthy on the other side of the neutral zone, facilitating a breakaway score to make it 2-0 with less than five minutes to go.

The Mavericks were able to sneak a goal of their own in the closing minutes, with the 1st period ending at 2-1.

After a clean first period, there were four penalties called in the second. The first of which resulted in a Maverick power-play where Wisconsin won the initial draw - allowing Lacey Eden to score a short-handed goal ten seconds into the penalty-kill.

The Badgers were able to kill the other two penalties against them in the period to enter the third up 3-1.

A hard cross-check from a Maverick shook up junior Cassie Hall early in the third. Hall recovered to play on the power play, capitalizing with the final goal of the game to make it 4-1.

Freshman Rhyah Stewart was in net for UW, saving 19 shots and allowing just one goal. The Badgers outshot the Mavericks, 44-20.

Notes to Know

UW remains atop the WCHA standings with three games remaining in the regular season
Cassie Hall achieved her 100th career point with her third-period goal.
Lacey Eden scored her 98th career goal in the victory. The fifth-year is now three goals away from joining Hilary Knight, Brianna Decker and Meghan Duggan as the only Badger players with 100+ career goals
Marianne Picard's goal was the first of the season and the fifth-years first since February of 2025.