2012-13 Bemidji State Women’s Hockey Game Notes March 1, 2013 • Bemidji State Athletic Media Relations • Contact: Jake Ford • Phone: 413-218-9064 • [email protected] 2012-13 Schedule BEMIDJI STATE at (1) MINNESOTA CURRENT RECORDS Overall: 6-24-2 Dates/Times: WCHA: 5-22-1-0 March 1, 2013, 6:07 p.m. (CT) Home: 2-13-1 March 2, 2013, 4:07 p.m. (CT) Road: 4-11-1 March 3, 2013, 4:07 p.m. (CT) Streak: L6 Location: Ridder Arena (3,400) OCTOBER 2012 (2-5-1) Minneapolis, Minn. 5 at (RV) Providence W 3-2 Series History: 6 at (RV) Providence L 1-5 Minnesota leads 52-4-6 12 St. Cloud State * L 1-3 Radio: 13 St. Cloud State * L 0-1 Bemidji State (1) Minnesota BeaverRadioNetwork.com 19 at (9) Wisconsin * W 1-0 6-24-2 Overall 34-0-0 Overall 21 at (9) Wisconsin * T 3-3OT/ShL Facebook.com/BSUBeavers 26 at (10) Ohio State * L 1-4 5-22-1-0 WCHA 28-0-0-0 WCHA @BSUBeavers 27 at (10) Ohio State * L 1-10 4-11-1 Road 16-0-0 Home NOVEMBER 2012 (1-4-1) 1 vs. Minn. Whitecaps # W 3-2OT LAST TIME OUT 9 Maine L 3-4 Bemidji State finished off its regular season last weekend with a home series against 10 Maine T 2-2OT/ShL Wisconsin. After BSU won its first-ever weekend series against the Badgers in October, 17 (10) North Dakota * L 1-3 the Badgers got revenge by sweeping the Beavers by 2-0 and 3-1 scores. In the first 18 (10) North Dakota * L 3-7 game, the teams went 37:59 without a goal before Molly Doner got UW on the board 23 at Minnesota State * W 4-3 with her first-career goal. Brianna Decker added an empty-net goal with 0.1 seconds 24 at Minnesota State * L 1-4 to go. In the second game on BSU’s Senior Day, Kelly Jaminski gave Wisconsin a lead late in the first period, but Bemidji State responded in the second period when Emily DECEMBER 2012 (0-4-0) Erickson scored the 45th goal and 93rd point of her career to knot the score. The Bad- 1 Minnesota Duluth * L 2-4 gers went onto win on goals by Katy Josephs in the second and Decker in the third. 2 Minnesota Duluth * L 1-4 7 (1) Minnesota * L 1-5 BSU VS. MINNESOTA BEAVER STAT BREAKDOWN 8 (1) Minnesota * L 0-5 The Beavers are 4-52-6 all-time against Minnesota after going 1-2- 2011-12 TO 2012-13 JANUARY 2013 (2-4-0) 4 at St. Cloud State * L 2-4 1 against the Gophers last year Scoring 2011-12 Returned Lost Pct. Ret. 5 at St. Cloud State * W 2-0 and losing four games to them Goals 101 72 29 71.3% this season by scores of 5-1, 5-0, Assists 167 115 52 68.9% 11 Minnesota State * W 2-0 Points 268 187 81 69.8% OT 12 Minnesota State * L 3-4 8-0, and 3-2 in overtime. Shots 1163 773 390 66.5% 18 at Minnesota Duluth * L 0-3 19 at Minnesota Duluth * L 2-4 ABOUT THE GOPHERS Penalties 2011-12 Returned Lost Pct. Ret. Top-ranked Minnesota has had a Penalties 161 112 49 69.6% PIM 344 243 101 70.6% FEBRUARY 2013 (1-7-0) record-breaking season in 2012- OT PPG 36 22 14 61.1% 1 Ohio State * L 1-2 13 and enters the weekend with SHG 3 2 1 66.7% 2 Ohio State * W 2-1 an unblemished 34-0-0 record. OT 8 at (9) North Dakota * L 3-4 Dating back to last year’s NCAA Goaltending 2011-12 Returned Lost Pct. Ret. 9 at (9) North Dakota * L 0-7 title run, the Gophers have won Wins 17 0 17 0.00% 15 at (1) Minnesota * L 0-8 Saves 1087 10 1077 0.01% 42 consecutive games. Minnesota 16 at (1) Minnesota * L 2-3OT Minutes 2243 20 2207 0.01% is led by junior Amanda Kessel’s Shutouts 5 0 5 0.00% 22 (6) Wisconsin * L 0-2 23 (6) Wisconsin * L 1-3 nation-leading 43 goals and 53 assists and freshman Hannah RETURNING LEADERS MARCH 2013 (0-0-0) Brandt’s 73 points (28g-45a). On Goals Emily Erickson (17) 1 at (1) Minnesota ^ 6 p.m. the blueline, senior Megan Bozek Assists Sadie Lundquist (23) 2 at (1) Minnesota ^ 4 p.m. leads the way with 47 points Points Sadie Lundquist (35) 3 at (1) Minnesota ^ 4 p.m. (15g-32a). Senior goaltender Shots Emily Erickson (127) Plus/Minus Kostenko/Arola/McKnight (3) Noora Räty is 31-0-0 with a .953 Penalties Tess Dusik (22) Home games in bold save percentage and a 0.99 goals PIM Tess Dusik (44) * Denotes WCHA game against average with 13 shutouts. Power-Play Goals Sadie Lunquist (8) # Game held in Eveleth, Minn. The Gophers have the nation’s top Shorthanded Goals Erickson/Lundquist (1) Erickson/Kelly/Lundquist (3) ^ WCHA Playoffs scoring offense (5.41 goals per Game-Winning Goals All times Central Goals Against Avg. Jessica Havel (0.00) game) and defense (0.85 goals Save Percentage Jessica Havel (1.000) against per game). 2011-12 Quick Facts BEMIDJI STATE WOMEN’s HOCKEY Notebook AGAINST THE GOPHERS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION This season, Minnesota has beaten BSU by 5-1, 5-0, 8-0, and 3-2 (in overtime) scores. Kaitlyn Tougas Location: Bemidji, Minn. is the only Beaver with multiple points against the Gophers after notching two goals in the teams’ last meeting. She also leads the team with a +1 rating in those four games. In goal, Jessica Havel has started Founded: 1919 three of the four games and has an .889 save percentage in those games. Leading the Gophers is national Enrollment: 5,360 leading scorer Amanda Kessel, who has six goals and four assists. Next for Minnesota is Becky Kortum, Nickname: Beavers who has eight points in four games. Noora Räty has a .959 save percentage between the pipes. Colors: Green & White A RECORD ON THE LINE Arena: Sanford Center (200 x 85) If Minnesota wins Friday night’s game to open the series against Bemidji State, the Gophers will hold the Capacity: 4,373 record for consecutive wins in NCAA hockey (any level) with 43. Currently, Minnesota is tied at 42 with the Bemidji State men’s team, who reeled off 42 straight victories from 1983-85. BSU’s 42-game streak EAM NFORMATION stretched from Nov. 8, 1983 to Jan. 1, 1985 and included a perfect 31-0-0 season in 1983-84 season that T I ended with an NCAA Division II championship, one of the program’s 13 national titles. 6-24-2 2012-13 Record: 2012-13 WCHA Record: 5-22-1-0 BSU IN THE POSTSEASON Average Age (as of 3/1): 20.51 In its 14 years of existence, Bemidji State holds a 3-19 record in playoff games. The current senior class 2011-12 Record: 17-17-3 has a 3-6 record in such games and helped guide BSU to its only WCHA Final Face-Off in 2009-10. Against Minnesota, the Beavers are 0-5 in postseason action, but they haven’t faced the Gophers in the 2011-12 WCHA Record: 11-15-2-0 playoffs since 2009. Letterwinners Returned: 20 Letterwinners Lost: 8 JESSICA SAVEL Newcomers: 8 Jessica Havel has come on strong over the last couple weeks in her senior season. After a career perfor- mance in which she made 41 saves in forcing No. 1 Minnesota to overtime for the only time all season, Top Returning Scorers G-A-Pts. Havel stopped 53 of 57 shots (.930 save perctage) against No. 6 Wisconsin. In the second half of the Sadie Lundquist, Sr., F 12-23-35 season, Havel is 2-5-0 with two shutouts and a 2.56 goals against average and a .906 save percentage. Emily Erickson, R-Sr., F 17-15-32 Erika Wheelhouse, Sr., D 8-16-24 TOUGAS TOUGAS Freshman forward Kaitlyn Tougas registed two goals in BSU’s last tilt against Minnesota. It was the sec- MacKenzie Thurston, Sr., F 1-14-15 ond game in which a BSU player potted multiple goals this season—the other was also by Tougas. It was Nastasha Kostenko, So., F 6-7-13 the fifth time the Gophers conceded a multiple goals by one player all year. Kristin Huber, So., F 5-8-13 GOING STREAKING After going through the season’s first 18 games with no points, redshirt senior forward Abby Williams went COACHING STAFF on a four-game point steak from Jan. 19 to Feb. 8. The four-game point streak tied a season best for the Head Coach: Beavers. MacKenzie Thurston, Emily Erickson, and Natasha Kostenko (two streaks) had at least a point in Steve Sertich (Colorado College ‘74) four-straight games, as well. Assistant Coaches: LOOKING TO BECOME A CLASS OF ITS OWN Amber Fryklund (Bemidji State ‘03) By recording their sixth win of the season Feb. 2 against Ohio State, this year’s senior class tied the 2011- Shane Veenker (Bemidji State ‘01) 12 seniors as the four-year class with the most wins all-time at BSU with 49. EDIA NFORMATION BLOCK PARTY M I Erika Wheelhouse now has 141 blocks on the season, at least 66 more than anyone else in the country.