- 3rd	1	2	3	T
UW-Eau Claire (1-5-1, 1-4-0)	1	0	1	2
Lake Forest (5-2-1, 4-2-0)	0	1	2	3

Scoring Summary
1st - 16:56	PP - Casey McMullen (UW-Eau Claire)
2nd - 16:26	PP - Laura Reckdenwald (Lake Forest)
3rd - 07:27	PP - Jessica Dare (Lake Forest)
3rd - 15:00	Maeve Connelly (Lake Forest)
3rd - 18:07	Nikki Kothenbeutel (UW-Eau Claire)

UW-Eau Claire	Lake Forest
G: 2 Players (#21, #25 - 1) A: 2 Players (#15, #27 - 1) Sh: Stephanie Hatcher - 6 Sv: Morgan Pieper - 21	G: 3 Players (#5, #13, #21 - 1) A: 5 Players (#6, #9, #10, #11, #24 - 1) Sh: 2 Players (#10, #13 - 4) Sv: Stacey Dierking - 20

TEAM STATISTICS	UW-Eau Claire	Lake Forest
Power Plays	1 for 4	2 for 5
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	5 (10)	4 (8)
Shots on Goal	22	24
Face Offs Won	0	0

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LAKE FOREST, Ill. (Blugolds.com) – Despite a late comeback attempt, the UW-Eau Claire women's hockey team couldn't overcome Lake Forest College (Ill.) and fell 3-2 this evening.

The Blugolds struck first, as Casey McMullen (Jr.- Minneapolis, Minn./South) took advantage of a power play at 16:56 in the first to give Eau Claire the one-goal advantage. But Lake Forest scored two power play goals of its own – one in the second and one in the third – and tacked on another score with five minutes remaining in the third to go up 3-1.

With the clock winding down, Nikki Kothenbeutel (So.-Sauk Rapids, Minn./Sauk Rapids-Rice), assisted by Toni Simones (Sr.- Rosemount, Minn./South St. Paul), pulled the Blugolds within one score of Lake Forest with less than two minutes remaining. Eau Claire couldn't find the tying score, however, and fell 3-2.

Lake Forest outshot the Blugolds, making 24 attempts to Eau Claire's 22.

Morgan Pieper (Sr.- Williams, Minn./Warroad) made saves on 21 shots and played all but 47 seconds of the game, when the Blugolds went to empty net in a last-ditch effort to tie the game.

The Blugolds drop to 1-5-1 on the season and 1-4 in the NCHA.

Eau Claire will take on Lake Forest again at 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon.

-AH-