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Women's Hockey

Bulldogs sweep weekend series with Pointers

Box Score

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The UW-Stevens Point women's hockey team dropped its fifth straight game on Sunday afternoon as the Pointers fell 6-4 to the Bulldogs of Adrian College.

Like Saturday evening, the visiting Bulldogs (10-8-2, 8-6-2 NCHA) struck first, scoring at the 6:26 mark of the first period.

The Pointers evened the score at the 13:14 mark of the opening period as Michelle Lunneborg (Richfield, MN/Richfield) scored off an Allie Tanzer (Chippewa Falls, WI/Chippewa Falls) to make the score 1-1.

In the second, the Bulldogs tallied a pair of goals to take a 3-1 lead before Cassandra Salmen (Stillwater, MN/Stillwater) tallied a goal at the 17:48 mark to cut the deficit to one, 3-2.

Adrian responded just 15 seconds later on the power play to push the lead back to two goals and took the 4-2 edge into the intermission.

In the third, Adrian tallied a pair of power-play goals to extend its lead to 6-2.

UW-Stevens Point tallied a pair of goals midway through the third to pull within two, 6-4, but the Bulldogs kept the Pointers out of goal for the final 5:27 to secure the league victory.

Johanna Sommers (Rhinelander, WI/Rhinelander) suffered the loss, tallying 13 saves while Adrian's Brittany Zeches stopped 18 UWSP shots on target.

UW-Stevens Point (9-10-2, 8-7-1 NCHA) will head to Lake Forest, Ill., for a weekend series with the Foresters Feb. 11-12 before returning home to close out the regular season Feb. 17-18 at home against Concordia (Wis.).
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