Final	1	2	3	T
UW-Eau Claire (3-9-2)	1	1	1	3
St. Mary's (Minn.) (3-6-3 Overall)	1	0	0	1

Scoring Summary
1st - 15:36	Abbie Hawthorne (UW-Eau Claire)
1st - 18:42	Mary DeBartolo (St. Mary's (Minn.))
2nd - 06:40	Toni Simones (UW-Eau Claire)
3rd - 18:19	EN - Katie Ward (UW-Eau Claire)

UW-Eau Claire	St. Mary's (Minn.)
G: 3 Players (#4, #11, #27 - 1) A: 5 Players (#4, #6, #14, #22, #25 - 1) Sh: TEAM - 32 Sv: Morgan Pieper - 24	G: Mary DeBartolo - 1 A: 2 Players (#5, #26 - 1) Sh: Alex Braun - 5 Sv: Megan Brantley - 29

TEAM STATISTICS	UW-Eau Claire	St. Mary's (Minn.)
Power Plays	0 for 3	0 for 7
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	8 (16)	4 (8)
Shots on Goal	32	25
Face Offs Won	31	23

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WINONA, Minn. (Blugolds.com) – The UW-Eau Claire women's hockey team battled back to a weekend split with nonconference opponent St. Mary's University as it won 3-1 Saturday afternoon. 

The Blugolds got things started scoring the first goal of the afternoon.  Abbie Hawthorne (Jr.-Brookfield, Wis./Central) found the back of the net at 15:36 on a pass from Emily Haluska (Jr.-Stevens Point, Wis./SPASH).  With less than two minutes left in the first period, the Cardinals took away the Blugolds lead as they evened up the game at 1-1 at 18:42. 

Toni Simones (Sr.-Rosemount, Minn./South St. Paul) came out in the second period and scored the game winning goal for the Blugolds at 6:40 from a pass from Dani Kerr (Jr.-Little Canada, Minn./Roseville) and Nikki Kothenbeutel (So.-Sauk Rapids, Minn/Sauk Rapids-Rice).  In an effort to increase the scoring possibilities, the Cardinals pulled their goalie.  However, it did not work out the way they hoped as Katie Ward (Jr.-Andover, Minn./Coon Rapids) would get the puck in on the empty net with 1:41 remaining in the game. 

Morgan Pieper (Sr.-Williams, Minn./Warroad) got the win for the Blugolds.  She stopped 24 Cardinal shots and improved to 3-5-2 on the year.

The Blugolds return home to Hobbs Ice Center Wednesday for a nonconference matchup against St. Thomas.  Game action starts at 7 p.m.

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