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Badgers pegged as WCHA preseason favorites

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Abby Roque

Fresh off winning its fifth NCAA title, the Wisconsin women’s hockey team has been picked to win its eight WCHA regular-season title, according to the league’s annual preseason coaches’ poll that was announced Wednesday.

The Badgers earned 36 points and six first-place votes, while Minnesota earned 31 points and the other first place vote.  The two Border Battle rivals will rekindle their rivalry with a series on Nov. 2-3 in Minnesota and a series Jan. 24-25 in Madison.

Abby Roque was named the Preseason WCHA Player of the Year along with Ohio State forward Emma Maltais.  Roque, who was the league’s forward of the year in 2016-17, was second on the Badgers last year with a career-high 43 points.

The Badger forward was one of four Badgers named to the Preseason All-WCHA Preseason Team along [Read more…]

Badger Women Win 5th NCAA Hockey Title

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Annie Pankowski (Photo by David Stluka).

The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team captured their 5th NCAA Championship and first since 2011, blanking the rival Minnesota Gophers 2-0 on Sunday afternoon in Hamden, Connecticut.

Senior’s Sophia Shaver and Annie Pankowski scored for the Badgers, who capped the title season with their 35th win (35-4-2).

Shaver gave the Badgers a 1-0 lead at the 11:20 mark of the first period on a pass from behind the net from Presley Norby.

Pankowski scored Wisconsin’s second goal in the second period with a short-handed back-hander at the 10:45 mark.  Pankowski got the breakaway feed from Junior Abby Roque. [Read more…]

Wisconsin women’s hockey captures WCHA tournament title

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The Wisconsin women’s hockey team earned the top overall seed in the 2019 NCAA Women’s Ice Hockey Championship and will host Syracuse in a tournament quarterfinal on Saturday at LaBahn Arena.

The Badgers captured the WCHA Tournament Championship earlier in the day on Sunday, knocking off the Minnesota Golden Gophers 3-1 at Ridder Arena.

Sophomore Caitlin Schneider, freshman Britta Curl and senior Annie Pankowski all scored for the Badgers (32-4-2, 18-4-2-0 WCHA) in Sunday’s contest to lead UW to its eighth WCHA tournament title, the most of any school in the league.

Wisconsin now has won 17 of its last 18 WCHA postseason games and holds a 51-15-0 all-time record in conference playoff games.

The Badgers, who have the country’s best record of 32-4-2, enter the quarterfinal looking to advance to the NCAA Frozen Four for the sixth-straight year.

Syracuse is making its first NCAA tournament appearance after winning the 2019 CHA Tournament, winning three games in three days to claim its first conference title.

Top ranked Badger women blank St. Cloud State

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The top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team dominated from start to finish en route to a 5-0 win over St. Cloud State on Friday night at LaBahn Arena.  It was the Badgers fifth shutout of the season.

Junior Alexis Mauermann opened the scoring for the Badgers (22-3-0, 12-3-0-0 WCHA) less than six minutes into the game, collecting a blocked shot between the circles and firing it past Huskie (8-17-2, 3-13-0-0 WCHA) goalie Emma Polusny.

The Badgers also got goals from senior Sophia Shaver, Freshman Sophie Shirley and a pair of tallies from Junior Mekenzie Steffen.

Junior goaltender Kristen Campbell recorded 14 saves on her way to her 17th career shutout, tying her for fifth place on UW’s all-time list.

The win was the 18th straight for Wisconsin over St. Cloud State, and 40th in the last 41 meetings with the Huskies.

The same two teams close out the series at LaBahn Arena on Saturday night at 6 p.m.

 

Badger women back in NCAA Frozen Four (AUDIO)

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The Wisconsin women’s hockey team are back in the NCAA Frozen Four for the fifth consecutive year and 11th time overall, blanking the rival Minnesota Gophers 4-0 on Saturday at LaBahn Arena in the quarterfinals.

The 2nd-seeded Badgers (31-4-2) went 5-1 against the Gophers this season.

Sophomore goaltender Kristen Campbell faced only 12 shots and sophomore center Abby Roque (Rock) scored back-to-back goals in a span of 16 seconds and added an assist to help the Badgers knock off the Gophers.

UW had more shots on goal (14) in the first 20 minutes of the game than the Gophers managed the entire game.  Wisconsin outshot Minnesota 39-12.

The Gophers, who upset the Badgers in the WCHA title game last week, saw their season come to an end with a 24-11-3 record.

The Badgers will meet third-seeded Colgate (33-5-1) at 7 p.m. Friday at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis.  Top-seeded Clarkson (34-4-1) meets Ohio State (24-10-4) in the first semifinal at 4 p.m. Friday.  The winners will meet for the championship on Sunday at 2 p.m.

All three NCAA Frozen Four games will be televised by BTN.

AUDIO: Kristen Campbell on losing at Minny 3-1 last week, then playing their best game of the year :12

AUDIO: Mark Johnson on his team playing their best game on a big stage :19

AUDIO: Abby Roque on scoring two goals in a 16-sec. span in 2nd period :17

Campbell earns spot on Patty Kazmaier Top-10 list

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Wisconsin women’s hockey goaltender Kristen Campbell has been named a Top-10 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award finalist.

It marks the third-straight year a UW goaltender has been on the list as Ann-Renee Desbiens was a top three finalist in 2015-16 before winning the award during the 2016-17 season.

Campbell leads all NCAA Division 1 netminders in shutouts (11), wins (29), save percentage (.942) and goals-against average (1.15) during her first year with the Badgers after transferring in from North Dakota.

The Brandon, Manitoba, native has a 29-3-2 record in net for the top-ranked Badgers and her winning percentage of .882 leads the country this year.

Campbell was named WCHA Goaltender of the Month three times this year, WCHA Defensive Player of the Week three times and twice was an NCAA Star of the Week.

The Badgers are off this weekend, getting a first round WCHA playoff bye.  They’ll open the tournament with a semifinal game on Saturday, March 3 at Ridder Arena in the Twin Cities.

Hockey Badgers blow 2-0 lead, fall to Irish

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The 12th ranked Wisconsin hockey team led 2-0 in the final period before falling to 4th ranked Notre Dame 3-2 in their series opener at the Kohl Center on Friday night.

The Badgers (10-8-2, 4-4-1-0 Big Ten) outshot the Fighting Irish 36-32, but Notre Dame (15-3-1, 9-0-0-0) capitalized on the momentum from six Wisconsin penalty kills to extend their win streak to 12 games.

The Badgers got goals from senior captain Cameron Hughes and freshman forward Tarek Baker.

Notre Dame scored all three of their goals in the third period.

Sophomore goaltender Jack Berry had 29 saves in goal for the Badgers, who outblocked the Irish 23-12.  The Badgers finished 1-for-3 on the power play.

The two teams wrap up the series at the Kohl Center tonight (7 p.m.).

Badger women win

Sam Cogan’s first-period goal held up in Wisconsin’s 1-0 win over St. Cloud State.  Kristen Campbell finished with 16 saves for the Badgers, who improved to 20-1-0 overall and 12-0-0 in the WCHA.