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| 2006-2007 Records: 7-6-1 MIAC, 7-12-2 Overall |
| Last Week's Results Saint Mary's 3, St. Olaf 2 / Details St. Olaf 5, Saint Mary's 1 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Fri., Feb. 16: SMU at Bethel, 7:00 Sat., Feb. 17: Bethel at SMU, 7:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: With their split vs. St. Olaf last weekend, the Cardinals find themselves in fifth place in the MIAC standings, two points back of both St. Olaf and Hamline — and three points in front of Bethel — in the race for one of the five MIAC playoff spots. A sweep of the Royals this weekend would assure the Cardinals a berth in the conference tournament for the seventh straight time. … SMU's loss to St. Olaf Saturday snapped the Cardinals' season-high three-game winning streak. … SMU's three-game win streak was its longest since stringing together five straight wins from Jan. 27-Feb. 10, 2006. … SMU has now won five of its last seven games. … The Cardinals' three goals vs. St. Olaf Friday marked the third straight game in which SMU had scored three goals. … Amy Madden (East Grand Rapids, Mich.), who scored twice vs. the Oles Friday, has now scored at least one goal in four of SMU's last six games. … SMU scored two goals in the first period Friday — the third straight game in which the Cardinals scored twice in the first period. … SMU holds a 19-18 edge in first-period scoring, but have been outscored 22-7 in the second — including 2-0 Friday and 1-0 on Saturday. … Melissa Mondo (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) netted SMU's lone goal in Saturday's loss and remains the team-leader in goals (12) and points (20). Mondo's 47 career goals are just one back of Christy Hicks for No. 3 all-time. … Mondo's 87 career points are also No. 4 all-time. … SMU's loss on Saturday snapped the Cardinals' three-game road winning streak. |
Oles, but SMU can't repeat feat in settling for split
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Madden 2 goals in SMU's 3-2 Friday win |
Good things have been coming in threes for the Saint Mary's University women's hockey team.
Fours and fives, on the other hand, haven't been nearly as kind.
The Cardinals, bidding for their first four-game winning streak since the middle of last season, gave up five goals in last Saturday's rematch against St. Olaf — and scored just once — as the Oles rolled to a 5-1 Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victory.
"It was one of those games where, we played with a lot of energy, but we didn't play as a team," said SMU coach Terry Mannor. "We came out and played extremely well for the first four minutes of the first period — I don't think the puck left their zone.
"But then (the Oles) came down and scored their first goal, and it just deflated us."
It was the Oles' Lindsey Boeser who burst the Cardinals' first-period balloon, getting St. Olaf on the board at 6:29 of the first period. Kayla Hill would make it 2-0 before the first period ended, and St. Olaf would add three unanswered powerplay goals — one in the second and two in the third — before SMU finally got on the board with Melissa Mondo's (Vadnais Heights, Minn.) team-leading 12th goal of the season with 19 seconds remaining in regulation.
"St. Olaf is a very good team, and they were much more relaxed and in control than we were," said Mannor, who had gotten a pair of goals from Amy Madden (East Grand Rapids, Mich.) — including the game-winner with less than six minutes remaining in regulation in Friday's 3-2 win over the Oles. "We played much more as a team (on Friday) and that was the key to our success.
"Once we fell behind (Saturday), everyone started trying to do too much themselves, rather than working together to get the job done," added Mannor, whose team dropped to 7-6-1 in the MIAC and fell to fifth in the MIAC standings, three points in front of next weekend's opponent — Bethel. "It would have been nice to get the sweep, but I'll take one out of two against a team like that.
"We've still got a lot of work ahead of us if we want to get back to the conference tournament, hopefully everyone is up to the challenge."