St. Cloud State

Pankowski’s hat trick lifts Badger women

March 3, 2019 By Bill Scott

Annie Pankowski (Photo by David Stluka).

Annie Pankowski’s hat trick gave the second-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team a 8-0 win over St. Cloud State and a sweep in the opening round of the WCHA playoffs on Saturday.

Pankowski, who has been named one of three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier award, now had 21 goals on the season. She is the third Badgers player to score 20 goals in each of her four seasons, joining Hilary Knight and Meghan Duggan.

Pankowski’s three goals left her with 199 points in 148 career games. One more point, Pankowski will become the sixth Badgers player to reach 200 points.

With the win, the Badgers head into the WCHA’s Frozen Faceoff semifinal against 10th ranked Ohio State on Saturday in Minneapolis. Top-seeded Minnesota meets Minnesota-Duluth in the other semifinal with the winners to meet for the WCHA Tournament Championship.

The Badgers are looking for their fourth playoff title in the last five years.

Top ranked Badger women blank St. Cloud State

January 26, 2019 By Bill Scott

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.

Three goal 3rd period shut down Badgers

March 9, 2013 By Bill Scott

Wisconsin coughed up a 2-1 lead and fell to St. Cloud State 4-2 at the Dane County Coliseum on Friday night. The win gives the Huskies at least a share of the WCHA’s McNaughton Cup. The Huskies (21-13-1, 18-9-1 WCHA) can do no worse than tie with Minnesota or North Dakota, the teams closes to them with 1-game left to play.

St. Cloud State scored three times in the third period, with Nick Jensen scoring the game-winner at 16:25 of the period.

Joe LaBate and Tyler Barnes scored for Wisconsin (16-12-7, 12-8-7), which dropped the Badgers to 0-6-1 in the last 7-games against the Huskies.