University of St. Thomas Athletics
Concordia-Moorhead
Women's Hockey wins 4-2 in playoff semifinals
3/1/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Hockey
Lauren Bradel had 21 saves and second-seed St. Thomas received goals from four different players in Saturday's 4-2 victory over third-seed Concordia-Moorhead in an MIAC women's hockey playoff semifinal game in Mendota Heights.
The Tommies (21-5), who never trailed, will go on the road to face top-seed Gustavus in Wednesday's championship game. The Gusties won 5-0 over Hamline to stay unbeaten in 19 conference matches this season.
Kelley Fallen's unassisted second-period goal put the Toms ahead 1-0. The match stayed 1-0 until Marie Omann's goal made it 2-0 with 7:52 left in the third period. The Cobbers answered with Mandi Samuelson's power-play goal with 5:16 left to make it 2-1. But a penalty was called on the next faceoff and UST's Rachel Zilles converted a power-play goal to make it 3-1 with 4:46 remaining.
Concordia's Bre Bian scored with 4:08 to go to make it 3-2, but the Toms used an empty-net goal by Kristine Beese with 19 seconds to go to seal the victory.
Conc------0/0/2
UST-------0/1/3
Second period
1, ST: Fallen (unasst.) 7:34
Third Period
2, ST: Omann (Reinhardt, Carroll) 12:08; 3, CC: Samuelson (VanderKooy) 14:44 pp; 4, ST: Zilles (Carroll) 15:14pp; 5, CC: Bian (Dahl, Bextermueller) 15:22; 6, ST: Beese (Unasst.) 19:41 en
Goalies
CC: Haroldson 59:25 min, 3 GA, 26 saves (8-15-3)
UST: Bradel 60:00, 2 GA, 21 saves (6-3-12)
Penalties
CC: 2 for 4
UST: 3 for 6
Power Plays:
CC: 1 for 3
UST 1 for 2
