Caroline Harvey, Claire Enright lead our look at Wisconsin women’s hockey

MADISON – A weekly take a look at the Wisconsin girls’s hockey group.

FOR THE RECORD

Badgers climb in polls

UW moved up two spots within the USCHO rankings to No. 6 and climbed one spot to No. 7 within the USA Right now/USA Hockey Journal ballot. Wisconsin gained its collection at then-No 3 Minnesota final week, getting one level from a shootout win Friday and scoring a 7-5 victory on Saturday.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Caroline Harvey continues to shine

The WCHA has honored freshman Caroline Harvey twice as its Rookie of the Week and twice because the Rookie of the Month. This week she claimed her first defender of the week award after serving to the Badgers win their collection at Minnesota.

Saturday her help to freshman Laila Edwards within the second interval tied the sport, 2-2. Harvey later scored the game-winning aim on the 16:26 mark of the ultimate interval. It was her second game-winner of the season.

With 34 factors, solely Sis Paulsen and Kerry Weiland, who had been each freshman in 1999-2000, have scored extra factors as rookies in program historical past.

“When it goes properly like Saturday night time you watch her in apply at present, she’s acquired slightly further bounce in her stride,” UW coach Mark Johnson mentioned. “You possibly can inform her confidence shot up slightly bit and also you see that with youthful gamers …”

NOTABLE

Claire Enright places on present for residence crowd

Contemplating the opponent, UW’s victory Saturday might be thought of its most spectacular of the season. The seven objectives they scored are probably the most allowed by Minnesota this season. Enright, a freshman from Farmington, Minn., was in the midst of the motion with the primary three-point sport of her profession.

She helped UW dig out of a 2-0 deficit with the Badgers’ first aim on the 10:43 mark of the second interval and later assisted freshman Kirsten Simms on consecutive objectives that gave the Badgers a 4-2 benefit 5½ minutes into the ultimate interval. The efficiency raised Enright’s level complete to 14 and netted her WCHA Rookie of the Week distinction.

Britta Curl comes by way of in clutch

Senior captain Britta Curl scored the lone aim in a shootout win for the group Friday. She completed the night time with two pictures and three blocks. The sport marked her first shootout alternative of the season; UW misplaced a shootout to the Gophers earlier this season.

“I simply had a intestine feeling that that it’s higher to shoot the puck in a shootout than to deke it,” Johnson mentioned. “I figured Britta being the third individual taking pictures, she’s going to shoot the puck which provides us the most effective probability to attain a aim and it ended completely.”

BY THE NUMBERS

5 Objectives scored by Badgers freshmen throughout UW’s victory Saturday.

80 Saves made by goalie Cami Kronish through the Minnesota collection final week.

7 Badgers who acquired WCHA scholar-athlete awards (3.5 grade-point common or higher and one-year at their faculty previous to this faculty 12 months): Curl, Kronish, Lacey Eden, Jane Gervais, Marianne Picard, Grace Shirley and Sarah Wozniewicz.

COMING UP

Wisconsin may sprint top-ranked Ohio State’s WCHA title hopes

Vs. No. 1 Ohio State, 3 p.m. Saturday and a couple of p.m. Sunday: The Buckeyes took it to UW within the groups’ final assembly, scoring a 5-0 win on Jan. 14 wherein they out-shot the Badgers, 39-17. The Badgers seem to have shaken out of the offensive funk that plagued them on the time. Nonetheless, they’ll have their fingers full. Each video games might be seen on BTN+. Barring an upset loss by Minnesota to St. Thomas, the Buckeyes will want one win to guarantee themselves of a share of the WCHA title and a sweep to say the crown outright.