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Andrea Beatt (Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove HS) put in two goals for St. Scholastica as the team cruised to 5-0 victory over the Northwestern College Eagles in St. Paul on Friday. 

This was the first of two meetings between CSS and Northwestern (5-4-0, 3-1-0 UMAC), with the second coming as the season finale in late October.

The game started off a little bit slow for both teams with Northwestern controlling and getting off a couple shots early on in the first half.  The tides would change in the 27th minute when Beatt put a shot into the back of the net to give St. Scholastica a 1-0 lead.

Northwestern began to put the pressure on after the CSS goal, getting off three shots in the next eight minutes, with two of them coming within 1 ½ minutes of each other. CSS goalkeeper Bailey Mahlum (Bismarck, N.D./Bismarck HS) made a couple of nice saves to keep the Eagles scoreless. 

The control would go back to St. Scholastica and pay off in the 43rd minute as Shannon Carlson (Woodbury, Minn./Woodbury HS) scored to give the Saints a 2-0 lead late in the first half.  The Eagles would once again put on pressure following the Saints goal and get off a shot, but Mahlum was there for a save again to send the Saints into halftime with a two goal advantage. 

The Saints came out ready to score in the second half as Beatt put in her second goal of the day less than three minutes into the period.  Danni Firkus (Hugo, Minn./Forest Lake HS) followed up Beatt's act with a goal of her own in the 73rd minute off a Casey Mitchell (St. Cloud, Minn./St. Cloud Tech) assist to give CSS a 4-0 lead.

The offensive train kept on rolling for the Saints in the 81st minute when Lauryn Wilson (Fargo, N.D./Fargo South HS) put in a goal on Mitchell's second assist of the evening, giving the Saints a 5-0 lead.  Mahlum and the Saints kept the shutout in tact in the final minutes for the 5-0 victory.

Mahlum ended the game with four saves on her way to shutout number three on the year and improving her record to .500 at 3-3-0.  Beatt's two goals give her 11 on the year, Carlson's goal total is up to two, and Firkus and Wilson each put in their first on the season.  Mitchell now has four assists on the year.

The Saints (6-4-0, 5-0 UMAC) will be in action again tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. as they travel to St. Bonifacius to take on the Crown College Storm (0-8-0, 0-4-0 UMAC).