GRAND FORKS, N.D. - For the second straight game the Bemidji State University women’s hockey team came out of the gates quickly and for the second straight game the outcome has been good. In the first 10 games of the season the Beavers were out scored 11-3 in the first period of play and went 2-4-2 over that stretch. In the last two games the Beavers have out scored their opponents 3-0 in the first period and have a record of 1-0-1 in those games.

Bemidji State was led by two-point performances from both Guylaine Haché and Alicia Kinsman and Jill Luebke earned her first win for the Beavers as she allowed only three power play goals in the 5-3 win.

The Beavers got on the board just 2:20 into the game when Kinsman scored her second goal of the season on an assist form Guylaine Haché. Just two minutes and four seconds later (4:24) Haché would score an unassisted goal of her own to put the Beavers up 2-0. She now leads the team in goals scored with six. The Beavers would shoot twelve more times in the period, out shooting the Sioux 14-4, but the North Dakota goaltender Amber Hasbargen would make saves on 12 hots to stay within two goals of the Beavers 2-0.

In the second period the Beavers would come out with guns blazing again to take a 3-0 over the Sioux when Katie Ward scored her third goal of the season.

At the 7:20 mark of the period the Sioux would get a goal past the BSU goaltender Jill Luebke on a power play opportunity. But Amber Fryklund would give Bemidji State the three-goal lead back when she beat Hasbargen off the feed from Kinsman and Sara Zuelke. The goal gives her 97 career points in a Bemidji State uniform. The Sioux would take advantage of another power play opportunity when Abby Strong scored her first career goal at the 16:54 mark of the period to come within two goals of the Beavers at 4-2 before the end of the period.

Just over five minutes into the third period (5:20) UND would score their third power play goal of the game as Meghan Mutrie scored her first goal of the season. The goal brought UND within one goal of the beavers at 4-3. But Caesare Stimson put the win in the books for the Beavers as she scored an unassisted goal just 34 second later to put the Beavers up 5-3, and that is the way the score would stay
The win brings Bemidji State’s record to 4-5-2 and 3-3-1 in WCHA competition The two teams will face off again tomorrow at 2:05 p.m. on the Olympic sheet at Engelstad Arena in Grand Forks, N.D.

Scoring Scored by Assist
1st BSU Alicia Kinsman (2) Guylaine Haché (3)
BSU Guylaine Haché (6) unassisted
2nd BSU Katie Ward (3) unassisted
UND Elizabeth Funk (3) Devon Fingland (1)
BSU Amber Fryklund (4) Alicia Kinsman (3)
Sara Zuelke (3)
UND Abby Strong (1) Sherrie White (1)
Mikaela Tofte (2)
3rd UND Meghan Mutrie (1) unassisted
BSU Caesare Stimson (1) unassisted

Saves
UND Amber Hasbargen (60:00) - 29 BSU Jill Luebke (60:00) - 30