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Gophers Fall to Badgers in Overtime of WCHA Semifinal
3/8/2024 9:00:00 PM | Women's Hockey
MINNEAPOLIS – The University of Minnesota women's hockey team fell to Wisconsin, 4-3, in overtime in the WCHA Final Faceoff semifinals at Ridder Arena on Friday evening.
Kirsten Simms opened the scoring for Wisconsin (32-5-0) just 38 seconds in. Minnesota (27-9-2) responded with two goals in the period from Josefin Bouveng and Ella Huber to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.
The Badgers evened things up in the second period with a power play goal from Simms, her second of the game.
In the third, Peyton Hemp scored for the Gophers to retake the lead with 3:44 to play before Wisconsin's Casey O'Brien tied the game with eight seconds remaining.
Wisconsin's Lacey Eden scored 7:59 into overtime to send the Badgers to tomorrow's title game.
Junior goaltender Skylar Vetter made 38 saves in the overtime defeat.
Quotable
"I'm really proud of our group," head coach Brad Frost said. "Man, they battled and competed. I thought we played really well and Skylar made some great saves. In the end, we couldn't find a way to win it, even though we had some chances. We were right there against a very good opponent."
Notable
Abbey Murphy picked up an assist to give her 60 points this season for the first time in her career
Josefin Bouveng has recorded 12 points (6g-6a) in her last four games
Up Next
The Gophers will learn their NCAA Tournament seed on Sunday, March 10 when the NCAA selection show airs on ESPNews at 11:00 am CT.
Kirsten Simms opened the scoring for Wisconsin (32-5-0) just 38 seconds in. Minnesota (27-9-2) responded with two goals in the period from Josefin Bouveng and Ella Huber to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.
The Badgers evened things up in the second period with a power play goal from Simms, her second of the game.
In the third, Peyton Hemp scored for the Gophers to retake the lead with 3:44 to play before Wisconsin's Casey O'Brien tied the game with eight seconds remaining.
Wisconsin's Lacey Eden scored 7:59 into overtime to send the Badgers to tomorrow's title game.
Junior goaltender Skylar Vetter made 38 saves in the overtime defeat.
Quotable
"I'm really proud of our group," head coach Brad Frost said. "Man, they battled and competed. I thought we played really well and Skylar made some great saves. In the end, we couldn't find a way to win it, even though we had some chances. We were right there against a very good opponent."
Notable
Abbey Murphy picked up an assist to give her 60 points this season for the first time in her career
Josefin Bouveng has recorded 12 points (6g-6a) in her last four games
Up Next
The Gophers will learn their NCAA Tournament seed on Sunday, March 10 when the NCAA selection show airs on ESPNews at 11:00 am CT.
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