Badgers celebrate a goal at Bemidji State
5
Winner #1 Wisconsin WIS 17-1-2, 13-1-2
2
Bemidji State BSU 6-10-2, 3-10-1
Winner
#1 Wisconsin WIS
17-1-2, 13-1-2
5
Final
2
Bemidji State BSU
6-10-2, 3-10-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
#1 Wisconsin WIS 2 1 2 5
Bemidji State BSU 0 1 1 2

Game Recap: Women's Hockey |

Top-ranked Badgers skate past Beavers, 5-2

Watts scores twice to lead UW into break with a sweep

BEMIDJI, Minn. — The top-ranked Wisconsin women's hockey wrapped up the 2021 calendar year with a 5-2 triumph at Bemidji State on Saturday afternoon at the Sanford Center. 

The Badgers (17-1-2, 13-1-2-1 WCHA) were led by a four-point outing by Daryl Watts as the senior had two goals and two assists. Brette Pettet, Casey O'Brien and Sophie Shirley also scored for the Badgers in the road triumph against the Beavers (6-10-2, 3-10-2). 

Watts put the Badgers on the board just over halfway through the first, netting her third goal of the weekend. Pettet then lit the lamp near the end of the frame to send the Badgers into the second up 2-0.

The Beavers scored in the second to cut the Badgers' lead in half. O'Brien then scored a goal to get Wisconsin up 3-1 headed into the final frame.

Bemidji State scored a second goal to cut Wisconsin's lead back to one. Watts answered with a goal on a two-player advantage before Sophie Shirley added an empty-net strike to put the game out of reach. 

Three Notes of the Game

  • Daryl Watts became the sixth player in NCAA history to reach 150 career assists with her assist to Pettet on Saturday. The senior now has 274 career points, four behind Boston College's Alex Carpenter, who sits in fifth place in NCAA history. 

  • The Badgers end the 2021 calendar year with a 33-3-3 record and claimed the program's sixth NCAA title in 2021. 

  • Wisconsin outshot Bemidji State 206-62 in all four matchups between the teams this season.

Straight from the Rink
Head Coach Mark Johnson
On today's game:
"A lot of the game their goaltender played very well. We capitalized when we needed to, power played well in the third. It was a good weekend and a good way to finish off before Christmas break."

On what's next:
"We've got a good opportunity to take a break here with finals and then come back and play Quinnipiac in the New Year."

Up Next: The Badgers return to action on Jan. 1-2 with a series against No. 5 Quinnipiac at LaBahn Arena. Puck drop for both days is set for 2 p.m. and tickets are still available on UWBadgers.Com.


 
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