DULUTH, Minn. - The Bemidji State University women’s hockey team ended its season Saturday night with a 5-1 loss to the No. 3-ranked University of Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center.

After getting shut out in the first game of the first round of the WCHA Quarterfinals Friday, Lisa Kissick (Jr., Carman, Manitoba) made sure BSU would not be shut out again as she scored her first career short-handed goal with 41 seconds left in the game.

Her goal gave BSU a school record four short-handed markers for the season. Julie Rising (Fr., Millbrae, Calif.), Erin Cody (Fr., Roseville, Minn.) and Tara Hiscock (Sr., Turtle River, Minn.) were the other Beavers to score shorty’s this year.

Bemidji State was unable to shut out the Bulldogs in the first period, something it had done the night before. Sara O’Toole put the puck in the net just 1:20 into the game with assists to Elin Holmlov and Saara Tuominen, and Minnesota Duluth entered the first intermission with a 1-0 lead.

Jocelyne Larocque and Laura Fridfinnson each netted goals in the second period off assists by Myriam Trepanier, O’Toole, Heidi Pelttari and Haley Irwin. Emmanuelle Blais and Fridfinnson put UMD ahead 5-0 in the third period with goals just 50 seconds apart midway through the final stanza. Irwin, Pelttari, Trepanier and Libby Guzzo all had assists on the two goals.

Kissick got her goal at the 19:19 mark to give the Beavers their first goal of the two-game sweep. She finished the year tied with Annie Bauerfeld (Fr., Woodbury, Minn.) and Rising for the most goals on the team with five.

Bemidji State ended its season with a 4-29-3 record overall and a 1-25-2 mark in conference play. The four wins are the second-lowest in school history, with the two wins in the team’s first season (1998-99) being the only other year the Beavers didn’t achieve at least five wins.

Emily Brookshaw (Sr., Webster, Wis.) saved 43 shots in net for BSU, giving her a final total of 3,075 for her illustrious four-year career. She sits alone on top of the Bemidji State record books in multiple categories, including career saves, shots faced, shutouts, minutes played, games played, goals against average and save percentage. She had a career save percentage of .911 and a 2.98 goals against average, making her the only Beaver goaltender to ever finish a career with a GAA less than 3.00, and a save percentage higher than .900.

She finished just two saves shy of tying for third place for career saves in Western Collegiate Hockey Association history. She did, however, move into second all-time in conference history with 110 career games played, and is fifth in minutes played with 6075:02.

The top two leading scorers on the team this year were Bauerfeld (5-5=10) and Cody (4-6=10), both freshman.

Hiscock finished in third with three goals and five assists. She and Haley Balcom (Sr., Elk River, Minn.) both played 143 career games, making them each first in BSU history. Jessica Pullar (Sr., Elk River, Minn.) finished her career with 139 games played, putting her in a tie for sixth place on the all-time school list.

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