Wisconsin draws the second-largest women’s hockey crowd in NCAA history but falls to St. Cloud State

MADISON – No victory. No attendance file. No objectives.

The eighth-ranked Wisconsin ladies’s hockey workforce fell to No. 14 St. Cloud State, 1-0, Friday night time in entrance of 14,430 on the Kohl Heart, the second-largest crowd for a recreation in NCAA historical past because the Huskies snapped a 33-game UW unbeaten streak within the sequence.

Senior Jenniina Nylund scored the winner on the 15:36 mark of the primary interval off passes from sophomore Dayle Ross and senior Taytum Geier, a local of Verona.

The Badgers (20-8-1, 16-6-1 WCHA) managed the motion except scoring. They outshot St. Cloud, 39-15, however suffered their fourth shutout of the brand new 12 months.

Field rating:St. Cloud State 1, Wisconsin 0

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“I feel it comes right down to the little gritty issues,” senior defenseman Nicole LaMantia stated. “They received a pair extra bounces right here and there, however we’ve received to tighten it up a bit bit, 50-50 battles, pucks which are within the impartial zone. You need to make a reasonably play and we now have a lot expertise and oftentimes could make these fairly performs, however these pucks received to get deep.”

The competition marked the seventh Fill the Bowl Recreation. The Badgers and St. Cloud set the nationwide file 15,359 followers on the Kohl Heart in 2017. The second-best draw till Friday was the gang of 14,361 that attended the UW-Ohio State recreation three years in the past.

Wisconsin has hosted the seven most extremely attended video games in NCAA historical past.

The group marked one other huge second for Badger ladies’s sports activities. UW is the one college within the nation to have three ladies’s sports activities applications draw at the least 8,200 for single occasion this 12 months. Wisconsin had 16,833 followers at volleyball’s Kohl Heart Traditional in September and drew 8,217 for basketball in opposition to Northwestern final Sunday.

“It was an incredible occasion,” UW coach Mark Johnson stated. “You praise and thank the individuals who selected to come back to the sport tonight. I do know it’s chilly outdoors, however to have that sort of crowd in entrance of the groups was excellent.”

Johnson typically talks about how scoring purpose can typically result in a flurry of others. His workforce virtually received on the board first, however senior Britta Curl’s purpose on the 14:54 mark of the primary interval was overturned by video assessment because of an offsides infraction.

“You could possibly simply see the vitality on our bench and from the gamers after we did rating, and the vitality inside the constructing,” Johnson stated. “That was lacking. We weren’t in a position to give the gang one thing to cheer about, so that’s the very first thing that stands proud.”

UW’s struggles Friday have been just like those it confronted in opposition to Quinnipiac and Minnesota-Duluth. Creating possibilities wasn’t the issue. Ending was.

The Badgers’ night time Friday ended with a flurry of alternatives after they pulled goalie Cami Kronish. That they had eight pictures, lots of them good possibilities, throughout the closing 2 minutes.

The groups are scheduled to shut out their weekend set at 3 p.m. Saturday, however this time at LaBahn Enviornment.

“Tomorrow shall be actually good,” LaMantia stated. “Hopefully we will get a pair early and get our ft moist. I feel it will likely be actually good for us, particularly in that first interval, if we come out laborious and return into the locker room up a few objectives.”