DULUTH, Minn. (
csssaints.com) – The St. Scholastica women's hockey team travels to Indiana to take on Trine University in an important weekend in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association (NCHA) standings.
Where:
Thunder Ice Arena – Angola, Ind.
When:
Friday at 4 p.m. (ET) (
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Saturday at 2 p.m. (ET) (
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St. Scholastica Saints
Stats
Record: 8-5-1, 6-2-0 NCHA
Northern Collegiate Hockey Association: Standings | Stats
What You Need to Know about the Saints:
-The Saints come into the weekend against Trine tied with Lake Forest College (Ill.) for second in the NCHA standings.
-The Saints got swept the first week of January by Div. II Saint Anselm College and No. 4 ranked University of St. Thomas.
-Sophomore
Rachel Anderson (Shoreview, Minn./Mounds View HS) leads the NCHA in points (21) and assists (14) and leads the team in goals (7).
-Anderson ranks second in NCAA Division III averaging an assist per game.
-Sophomore
Taylor Thompson (Buffalo, Minn./Buffalo HS) and senior
Alexia Klaas (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfeld HS (Minnesota-Duluth)) also have 13 points on the season.
-Thompson is second in the conference with nine assists.
-Klaas' assist against St. Thomas gave her 60 points as a Saint, the seventh player in program history to hit that mark.
-Freshman
Amber Tilander (International Falls, Minn./Falls HS) leads all NCHA freshmen with 10 points.
-She ranks second in the league with three game-winning goals.
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Lexi Thomeczek (St. Louis, Mo./St. Joseph Academy (St. Louis AAA Blues)) has seen the majority of time in goal for the Saints. She owns a 2.17 GAA to pair with a .933 save percentage with a 4-4-1 record.
-At the halfway point the Saints power play is 14/61 (.230) which leads the conference.
-CSS has four players ranked in the top six of the conference in power-play points (Anderson-8, Thompson-6,
Greta Nundahl (New Brighton, Minn./Irondale HS)-5 and
Courtney Bloemke (Nicollet, Minn./Mankato West HS)-5)
-Nundahl ranks second in the NCHA among defensemen with nine points.
-The Saints penalty kill is holding opponents to a .143 conversion rate.
-CSS leads all NCHA teams with +8 advantage in special teams.
-The Saints are 6-3-0 at home this season and 2-2-1 on the road.
-CSS has out-scored teams 32-16 in the second and third periods.
-CSS is 6-0 when it scores first.
What You Need to Know about Trine:
Record: 6-6-1, 4-3-1 NCHA
-The Thunder are in fourth place in the NCHA standings, three points behind the Saints
-Trine is 2-3-1 at home this season.
-The Thunder is coming off a 2-1 overtime loss at league-leading Adrian College (Mich.) last weekend … The contest was a non-conference game.
-Sophomores Kailey Cameron and Eryn Issacson lead the Thunder with eight points.
-Issacson ranks second in the NCHA with eight goals, Sula Argyris leads the team with seven assists.
-Junior Molly Scarborough has majority of the Thunder's starts this season. She owns a record of 4-4-0 with a .938 save percentage and a 1.60 GAA
-Trine is only averaging 1.92 goals per game this season
-They are allowing 2.08 goals a game.
-Trine gets outscored by five goals in the first two periods but outscore opponents by four in the third. This season Trine is being outshot by 92.
-The Thunder is 5-1 when scoring first and 1-5-1 when scored upon first.
Series Record: CSS leads 2-0
(Last Meeting: 3-1 CSS – 2/10/2018)
Series History: CSS swept the first-ever series between these teams last season outscoring Trine 10-2 in Duluth.
Looking Ahead: The Saints continue their road trip when they'll travel to Mequon, Wisconsin to take on NCHA fifth place Concordia University Wisconsin next weekend.
