BEMIDJI — It doesn’t take lengthy for the complexion of a sport to switch.
The Bemidji State ladies’s hockey workforce was once proper there with No. 1 Ohio State via two classes on the Sanford Center, trailing 1-0 and just about equalizing with Raeley Carney’s zinger off the crossbar on the finish of the second one period.
The third period was once a special tale, even though, because the Buckeyes buried 3 objectives within the first six-plus mins of the body, reworking a good affair right into a relaxed 4-0 merit that OSU rode the entire method to the end line.
“It’s, to be honest with you, a little frustrating,” BSU head trainer Jim Scanlan stated. “Despite it being 1-0, I just didn’t think we brought our A-game necessarily the first two periods. (Goaltender Hannah Hogenson) was very, very good, but we just didn’t seem to have the energy that we needed.”
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That loss of leap value Bemidji State within the ultimate body, when the Buckeyes flipped the competition on its head.
“We’re going into the third period, it’s a one-shot game,” Scanlan stated. “We talked about not having played our best hockey, now we’ve got an opportunity. It’s right there. And we come out and we give up one in the first shift of the third period.”
An calmly performed first body ended with Ohio State (5-0, 5-0 WCHA) in entrance after Kenzie Hauswirth’s extensive try from the purpose line discovered its means into the again of the online, spoiling what was once in large part a powerful defensive 20 mins for the Beavers (2-4-1, 0-3 WCHA). Reece Hunt had a super likelihood to equalize for BSU on a breakaway, however she was once stoned by way of Ohio State goalie Raygan Kirk.
The 2nd period was once a defensive battle and featured some stellar particular-groups play from Bemidji State, because the Beavers killed two OSU energy performs. But BSU couldn’t equalize, hanging power on them to respond to coming into the third period.
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“We just needed to get more shots on the net,” stated junior ahead Kayla Santl, who was once across the crease within the latter two classes and scored in opposition to Ohio State remaining season however didn’t file a shot on purpose Saturday. “Make sure we’re hitting the net, and then making one go in.”
The Buckeyes outshot Bemidji State 38-14 on purpose, main Scanlan to echo Santl’s review.
“Fourteen shots, I think we had way more opportunities than that,” Scanlan stated. “We missed the net on a number of chances. You’ve got to make the goalies make a save, because if you get pucks to the net, now you’ve got rebounds, now you’ve got chaos. We’ve talked about that a lot. That’s how we’re going to need to score, is by creating chaos.”
The Buckeyes brought about quite a lot of nuttiness early within the third period. Sophie Jaques scored simply 24 seconds into the body, on the other hand at 4:57. Jenna Buglioni added the backbreaker at 6:17, and the Beavers had been left licking their wounds and questioning what will have been.
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“Our effort in the first two periods was there,” Santl stated. “The third period kind of got away from us. We need to play a full 60 (minutes), obviously, and score some goals.”
“When you get chances, boy, you’ve got to take advantage of them,” Scanlan added. “That’s going to be our challenge tomorrow. We get chances, we’ve got to see if we can’t bury a couple.”
Hogenson stored BSU inside putting distance for lots of the contest with a powerful efficiency, compiling 34 overall saves. Kirk contributed 14 stops for OSU.
Bemidji State will get every other shot on the Buckeyes at 2:01 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 16, on the Sanford Center.
Ohio State 4, Bemidji State 0
OSU 1 0 3 — 4
BSU 0 0 0 — 0
First period — 1, OSU GOAL, Hauswirth (Jaques, Maltais), 15:04.
Second period — No scoring.
Third period — 2, OSU GOAL, Jaques (unassisted), 0:24; 3, OSU GOAL, Jaques (Maltais), 4:57; 4, OSU GOAL, Buglioni (Gardiner, Rosenthal), 6:17.
Saves — Hogenson (BSU) 34; Kirk (OSU) 14.
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