Women’s Hockey Knocks Off No. 3 Wisconsin

By Aubrey Nelson on February 14, 2015 at 6:48 pm
Melani Moylan, expert Badger hunter
Ohio State University
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This was a senior day for the record books. Kayla Sullivan and Danielle Gagne scored goals and Taylor Kuehl and Kari and Sara Schmitt chipped in assists as they and assistant captain Kara Gust celebrated their final home game as Buckeyes with an upset of No. 3 Wisconsin. 

goals by period 1 2 3 final
No. 3 Wisconsin  0 2 1 3
Ohio State 1 1 2 4

Sullivan kicked off the scoring midway through the first period. The 1-0 lead held until the 6:02 mark of the second, when Wisconsin’s Courtney Burke leveled the score. Melani Moylan responded for the Buckeyes, capitalizing on an OSU power play to go up 2-1, but Wisconsin knotted the game up once again moments later. The teams went to the final intermission locked at two goals apiece.

Ohio State regained the lead in the third period when the team's co-leader in scoring, Claudia Kepler, potted a shorthanded tally. Gagne extended the lead to 4-2 with nine minutes to play. The Badgers put the extra attacker on in the final, desperate minutes of the game and drew within a goal of the Buckeyes, but the ladies in scarlet and gray held off Wisconsin’s last charge. 

pd time buckeye goal scorer (assists)
1 7:38 Kayla Sullivan (Melani Moylan, Kendall Curtis)
2 11:14 Melani Moylan (Sara Schmitt, Kari Schmitt)
3 6:00 Claudia Kepler - SH (Julia McKinnon)
3 11:03 Danielle Gagne (Taylor Kuehl, Kari Schmitt)

Stacy Danczak stopped 28 shots in the victory. The Bucks were 1-for-3 on the power play. The penalty killers shut down three of Wisconsin’s four chances and netted a goal of their own.

Today’s game marks just the third time the Badgers have allowed four goals in a single outing this season. Minnesota is the only other team to achieve that mark.  

Ohio State concludes its regular season schedule next weekend. The team travels to face the No. 6 Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs. 

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