Box Score St. Scholastica (16-2-1, 13-0-0 UMAC) cranked up their offense in Saturday afternoon's 7-0 rout of the host Purple Storm from Crown College (10-6-0, 6-6-0 UMAC) in St. Bonifacius, Minn.
Twenty-seven of the Saints' 31 shots made it on goal giving Crown goalie Bronwyn Weiss a week's worth of work in one 90-minute game.
Robin Johnson (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Marshall School)'s team-leading 13th goal of the season got the Saints up on the scoreboard with her score in the 17th minute.
It took 15 more minutes before the offense heated up as they scored three more times in less than 15 minutes to go into the half ahead 4-0.
Jen Krokum (Duluth, Minn./Duluth East HS), Kristen Stangel (Grand Rapids, Minn./Grand Rapids HS), and Victoria Witrak (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Marshall School) scored the second, third, and fourth goals of the game with Krokum and Johnson also each picking up an assist in the barrage.
Soon after the opening touch after halftime, St. Scholastica's Sarah Bartlette (East Grand Forks, Minn./Shattuck St. Mary's) scored for a 5-0 lead. The goal was Bartlette's 12th on the year, pulling her within one score of the pace-setting Johnson.
In the 56th minute, sophomore Angie Groh (Andover, Minn./St. Francis HS) converted a penalty kick for the Saints' sixth score, then late in the game freshman Lisa Hoim earned her first collegiate goal on a header in the 89th minute for the game's final score.
While the Saints were cranking out shot after shot on Weiss, Crown would only muster five shots -- all on goal -- in the loss. St. Scholastica keeper Kelly Momsen (Austin, Minn./Austin HS) stopped four of those shots while a defender blocked the fifth.
The shutout was Momsen's ninth of the season and team record 23rd of her career.
Now only one conference victory away from completing a second consecutive 14-0-0 perfect record in the UMAC, the victory also extends the Saints' regular season conference winning streak to 42 games. Prior to last season the conference schedule only included single round robin play between league opponents but switched to the double round robin format for the 2006 season.
With one final UMAC game left in the regular season, at Northland College on Oct. 27, the Saints are assured the regular season league championship and will therefore host the UMAC postseason tournament in Duluth on Nov. 3rd and 4th as the tournament's top seed.
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