Gophers captain Taylor Heise has scored a lot of big goals in her career. Friday night she got her latest one.
Taylor Heise's overtime goals gives No. 1 Gophers win over Minnesota Duluth
The fifth-year forward from Lake City, Minn., scored 15 seconds into the extra period as Minnesota improved to 8-0-1.
By NEWS SERVICES
November 5, 2022 at 5:31AM
The fifth-year forward took a centering pass from Grace Zumwinkle and, from the edge of the crease, shot the puck past goalie Emma Soderberg to give the No. 1 Gophers women's hockey team a 3-2 overtime victory over No. 5 Minnesota Duluth at Ridder Arena.
Time elapsed in the extra period? Fifteen seconds.
"A big overtime win here tonight," Gophers coach Brad Frost said. "A great first period for us coming out of the gates [with a 2-0 lead]. To Duluth's credit, they found a way to tie it up in the third, but a nice job by our team to get the win in overtime. It's fun hockey. It's hard, it's tough, and it's the way we all like it."
Ella Huber and Lizi Norton, a defenseman who played at UMD for four seasons, had first-period goals for the Gophers (8-0-1, 8-0-1 WCHA).
But the Bulldogs (7-4, 3-4), who split six games with Minnesota last season, tied the score on goals by Gabby Krause in the second period and Nina Jobst-Smith on a power-play at 3:03 of the third.
Sophomore Skylar Vetter had 27 saves for the Gophers, Soderberg 29 for UMD.
Men's Friday results
No. 13 Penn State 3, No. 1 Michigan 0: The Nittany Lions, at least for one night, proved they are as good as their unbeaten record. Ture Linden and Ashton Calder scored goals in the second period as host Penn State (9-0, 3-0 Big Ten) upset the Wolverines (7-2, 0-1). Liam Souliere made 17 saves for the Nittany Lions, Noah West 45 for Michigan.
Michigan State 5, Wisconsin 0: Erik Middendorf scored four goals and Dylan St. Cyr stopped 44 shots as the host Spartans (5-3-1, 2-1 Big Ten) routed the Badgers (2-7, 0-5).
No. 6 MSU Mankato 7, St. Thomas 2: The Mavericks scored four goals in the first 8:30 of the third to break open a 2-2 game against the host Tommies. David Silye had two goals for MSU Mankato (6-3, 3-0 CCHA), Cooper Gay two goals for St. Thomas (2-7, 1-2).
Bemidji State 2, Ferris State 2 (SO): Ross Armour and Kirklan Irey scored goals for the host Beavers (3-2-2, 2-0-1 CCHA) and Mattias Sholl made 22 saves in a tie with the Bulldogs (3-4-2, 1-1-1), who won a shootout 1-0 for an extra point in the conference standings.
No. 10 North Dakota 4, Nebraska Omaha 1: Riese Gaber scored the last two goals for the visiting Fighting Hawks (4-3-1, 1-0 NCHC) and Drew DeRidder made 21 saves.
No. 4 St. Cloud State 4, No. 2 Denver 3 (OT): Veeti Miettinen's goal 1:38 into the extra period gave the Huskies (8-1, 1-0 NCHC) the road win. Zach Okabe tied the score at 3-all with 1:17 left in the third after SCSU pulled its goalie.
Colorado College 5, No. 19 Minnesota Duluth 0: Stan Coole and Noah Laba each scored twice and Kaiden Mbereko made 34 saves as the host Tigers (4-5, 1-0 NCHC) routed the Bulldogs (4-5, 0-1).
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Two offensive linemen from Lakeville, Bryce Benhart and Riley Mahlman, are standouts for Big Ten rivals of Minnesota.
