BEMIDJI, Minn. – It's Thanksgiving weekend and the Bemidji State University women's hockey team will travel to Missouri for a non-conference series at Lindenwood University.
 
The Beavers (4-9-1, 2-9-1 WCHA) travel to Maryland Heights, Mo., for a two-game non-conference series with the Lions (4-13-1, 3-6-1 AHA) beginning Friday, Nov. 28 at 4 p.m. CST. Game two will be held Saturday at 1:00 p.m.
 
Each game will be streamed exclusively online at FloHockey.com.
 
Bemidji State Notes

• Bemidji State plays its first non-conference series of the season by traveling to face Lindenwood over Thanksgiving break.
• The Beavers are fresh-off a series split with No. 10 St. Cloud State University this past weekend at Sanford Center.
• After being held off the scoresheet in Friday's game, the Beavers responded by scoring the most goals this season with a 6-5 overtime win Saturday.
• It was the second time in three weeks that BSU upset a nationally ranked opponent and the second time in second-year head coach Amber Fryklund's tenure.
• After leading 4-1 after two periods on Saturday, SCSU responded with four unanswered goals in the third to take a 5-4 lead. However, with 31.4 seconds remaining, Isa Goettl scored an extra-attacker goal to tie the game and then 1:03 into overtime, Hailey Armstrong netted the game-winning goal to upset the Huskies.
• Goettl scored the first game-tying goal for the Beavers since Makenna Deering on Jan. 26, 2024.
• Armstrong netted the Beavers first overtime goal of the season and the first for BSU since Makenna Deering on Jan. 31, 2025.
• Goettl and Morgan Smith each had a goal and two assists in the series while Raeley Carney scored two goals.
• Carney scored twice in a game for the third time in her career and first time since Nov. 15, 2024.
• Senior Ava Hills made 38 saves for the Beavers to earn her first win as a Beaver.
• Head coach Amber Fryklund earned her 10th career win in the game.
• Smith continues to lead the Beavers in her second season after leading the Beavers during her freshman year.
• This season, she has totaled 12 points (5g-7a) in 14 games after posting 20 points (11g-9a) in 37 games in 2024-25.
• Her career goals per game average of 0.31 is the sixth best in BSU history.
• Three Beavers follow her with each posting eight points in 14 games.
• Hailey Armstrong (7g-1a), Isa Goettl (4g-4a) and Kate Johnson (1g-7a) are all tied for second on the team with eight points.
• Armstrong paces the team with her seven goals and snapped a seven-game scoring drought last Saturday.
• Isa Goettl has found her scoring touch after a tough start to the season and has five points (1g-3a) over the last four games.
• The same is with her linemate sophomore Izy Fairchild who has five points (2g-3a) over the last five games.
• Junior and St. Cloud State transfer Carmen Bray leads BSU's defenders with six points (6a) in her first season with BSU.
• Head coach Amber Fryklund has split time in net between sophomore Kaitlin Groess and senior Ava Hills.
• Groess leads the team with eight starts while Hills has made six.
• Groess has earned all three of the Beavers' four victories this season and has posted a 4.4 goals against average and .880 save percentage.
• Hills leads BSU with a 3.83 GAA and .909 save percentage which ranks fifth in the WCHA.
• Hills leads the WCHA averaging 34.3 saves per game.
• Bemidji State leads the WCHA averaging 13.4 blocked shots per game.
• Freshman defender Katy Comstock leads the team and is ninth in the WCHA with 25 blocked shots despite her 5-foot 0-inch stature.
• Bemidji State is 13-4-2 in 19 career meetings with Lindenwood
• BSU dominates the all-time series but is just 4-3-1 against the Lions in Maryland Heights.
• Hailey Armstrong and Raeley Carney lead BSU with four points against the Lions while Armstrong has four goals including netting her first collegiate hat trick and broke a program record for shots on goal (14) on Oct. 18 of last year.
• Head coach Amber Fryklund is 1-0-1 in two seasons coaching against Lindenwood
• The Beavers are in year two under the leadership of head coach Amber Fryklund.
• She has brought in 11 newcomers to the green and white including transfers Carmen Bray (St. Cloud State) and Elly Klepinger (Minnesota).
• Junior Hailey Armstrong will captain the Beavers during the 2025-26 season and will be assisted by Smith and senior Raeley Carney.
• Eight freshmen join the team in Senja Leeper (Minnetonka HS), Lola Macuiba (Shawnigan Lake School), Kasey Senden (Hill-Murray HS), Addie Morris (Benilde-St. Margaret's), Paige Smith (Edmonton Jr. Oilers), Maddie Kaiser (Balmoral Hall Prep), Katy Comstock (Warroad HS) and Ashlyn Hazlett (Minnetonka HS).

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Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's hockey membership in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and women's hockey membership in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
 
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