Women's Hockey Silences Huskies
October 20, 2001 | Women's Hockey
The Badger women's hockey team used a balanced scoring attack, including 10 different goal-scorers, and five first-period goals on its way to a 10-1 victory over Connecticut on Saturday at the Kohl Center.
It took the Badgers (3-0-0 overall, 3-0-0 WCHA) 1:50 to gain a 1-0 lead when Karen Rickard (Bowmanville, Ont.) scored her first of the season. Kerry Weiland (Palmer, Alaska) pinched along the boards to keep the puck in, before skating into the corner. Weiland found Rickard in front for the score.
Jackie Friesen (Regina, Saskatchewan) scored to make it 2-0 at 5:21. She finished the rebound of Molly Engstrom's (Siren, Wis.) point shot. Kendra Antony (Yorkton, Saskatchewan) earned her first assist and first of four points in the contest.
The third of Wisconsin's goals came from Steph Millar (Hudson, Wis.) at 8:21. Meghan Hunter (Oil Springs, Ont.) passed the puck off the boards to Weiland in the high slot. Millar took Weiland's pass and redirected it past UConn 's Shannon Murphy for her second of the season.
Jocelyn Cookson (Edina, Minn.) made it 4-0 at 17:19 when she found the puck after Kathryn Greaves' (Mentor, Ohio) original shot banked off the post. For the frosh Cookson, it was her first career point.
Wisconsin scored its fifth goal of the first period with the scoreboard clock stopped at 00:00.1. Kelly Kegley (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) got credit for her second goal of the season from Friesen and Antony just before the buzzer sounded.
Early in the second period of play Meghan Hunter beat the Connecticut defense on the breakaway off a pass from Kathy Devereaux (Seaforth, Ont.) to make the score 6-0. Devereaux found the puck in her own zone, passed off the boards past a UConn forward, and received her own pass before finding Hunter.
Sophmore Kathryn Greaves (Mentor, Ohio) scored her first goal as a Badger when she returned her own rebound toward the goal at 9:25 of the second.
The lone Huskie (0-1-0) goal was scored at 1:57 of the third when Megan Mcleod stripped a Badger coming out of the defensive zone and took a shot off that went off the post before crossing the goal line.
The Badgers answered the Huskies lone goal with three goals, from Julia Ortenzio, Kerry Weiland, and Kendra Antony respectively making the final score 10-1.
'I thought our team did a great job today,' stated head coach Trina Bourget. ' It was a whole group effort. It was nice to see that the point production was pretty well spread out and that there are several people on the team that can contribute to point production.'
Jackie MacMillan (Buffalo, Minn.) started the contest and made two saves before giving way to Jen Neary (Dallas, Texas), midway through the second. MacMillan improves to 3-0-0 on the season. UConn split the goaltending duties as well, with Murphy playing the first and making 7 saves. Samantha Dexter made 18 saves in two periods of work.
The Badgers held UConn shotless through the first period and held the Huskies to just 14 shots for the game. Wisconsin peppered UConn goalies with 35 shots.
'One thing that we discussed before this game and after the St. Cloud series was not letting our opponents holding up the shots from our team and we did a pretty good job of that,' added Bourget. ' I'm very proud of the whole team.'
The Badgers will conclude their series against the Huskies tomorrow at the Kohl Center at 2:35 p.m.
