MADISON, Wis. – Thanks to a balanced attack, the fifth-ranked Wisconsin women's hockey team extended its winning streak to eight games with to a 8-0 win over Bemidji State on Thursday. 

Vivian Jungels, Sophie Shirley, Lacey Eden, Britta Curl, Sarah Wozniewicz, Kirsten Simms, Claire Enright and Marianne Picard all tacked on goals for the Badgers (8-1-0, 5-0-0-0-0-0 WCHA) victory against the Beavers (2-6-1, 0-5-0-0-0-0). 

Jungels got things started for Wisconsin just 1:40 into the period, scoring her first goal as a Badger. 

A backhanded goal from Sophie Shirley doubled the lead with 13:06 left in the first. 

Eden snuck in her seventh of the season, extending the lead to 3-0.

Curl wrapped up the scoring for the first period with her 50th career goal, making it 4-0.

The second period began with a Wozniewicz goal at 1:19, giving the Badgers a five goal advantage on the Beavers.

Simms scored on a breakaway before Enright recorded her second of the season. 

Scoring her first of the season, Picard tallied the only goal of the third period. 

Three Notes of the Game
- This marks the seventh time this season that the Badgers have scored five or more goals in a game. 
- With Marianne Picard potting her first of the season, every Badger forward has scored a goal this season. 
- Sophie Shirley is now one point away from moving into the top-10 in school history in career scoring as she has 166 career points. Daryl Watts sits in 10th place with 167 points during her three years as a Badger. 

Straight from the Rink
UW head coach Mark Johnson
On the UW freshmen adjusting to collegiate hockey:
"They're adjusting, they're making strides. Every game is not gonna be a perfect game for them. It's gonna be an experience for them. They're growing and if they have success like they did tonight that'll certainly help their confidence."

On Jungels' first goal:
"You could sense the energy on the bench when it went into the back of the net because everybody was excited for her. It really set the tone early on. I was able to play everybody consistently throughout the night so that's good too and everybody gets to feel good about themselves. Now you talk about being consistent from game to game and we'll see what happens tomorrow night as we start that game, if we can play at that consistent level that we're expecting ourselves to play at."

Freshman forward Kirsten Simms
On team preparations for the series:
"All week we have been talking about outworking them right from the drop of the puck and I guess we kind of just went in with that mindset, had more energy than them, knew we were going to outwork them and it kind of just worked for us."

Freshman defender Vivian Jungels 
On the team's connection:
"I think we have a really good group of girls here and they are all just like family, so I think that shows we have each other's backs… I think coming in as a freshman, we were here all summer so that helped and we have really good leaders ahead of us that are setting a good example."

Up Next:
The Badgers and Beavers wrap up their series on Friday with a 7 p.m. tilt at LaBahn Arena. Tickets are still available on UWBadgers.com