Coole regains goaltending form to anchor UMD’s 1-1 tie at Tech
HOUGHTON, MICH.—Adam Coole needed to win a game in goal for the UMD Bulldogs, but more than that, he needed to play well — to get back that old, familiar feeling that nothing could go in, that nobody could beat him. He didn’t get the victory Saturday night, because the game with Michigan Tech wound up a 1-1 tie. But the freshman goaltender from Duluth East regained his old confidence, and his outstanding netminding was worth a point in the second game of their WCHA series.
“This might be all I needed,” said Coole, with relief, not boastfulness accenting his words. “I needed a big game, and the difference tonight was that I got a few bounces.”
Coole didn’t say much after losing 7-4 at Mankato, just as he hadn’t said much after losing 5-4 against St. Cloud State, but he knew he had played himself out of a chance to start either game against North Dakota last weekend. He had been pressing, since coming back from an injury, and he had appeared almost brittle in goal, certainly not like is usual self.
“I wasn’t playing well, but I also felt like I’d been cursed,” said Coole. “I never got a bounce, and I’d lost that feeling. After two periods tonight, I felt really good in the third period — that’s the feeling I always had, that got me to this level.”
The Huskies, buoyed by a vocal, Tech Towel-waving Winter Carnival crowd of 3,494 at John MacInnes Arena, outshot the Bulldogs 41-25, but had all they could do to offset Andy Reirson’s first-period UMD goal with a second-period marker by Brad Patterson. The Huskies skated and shot much the way they had done to establish a 41-30 advantage in Friday’s 3-2 Tech victory when Rob Anderson’s goaltending held UMD close.
This time, it was Coole, who came through with 40 saves, as Tech outshot the Bulldogs 30-12 after the first period, and his saves included the only two shots in a 5-minute sudden-death overtime.
“That’s the game that Adam needed,” said UMD coach Scott Sandelin. “He played really well, and this is really good for his confidence.”
The Huskies won the Carnival Cup for total goals, with a 4-3 edge in the two games, and the teams played with a forcefulness that seemed more than two teams in the lower reaches of the WCHA should be able to muster at this time of the season. Tech is now 5-14-2 in the WCHA, UMD is 2-18-2. Tech is 7-18-3 overall, UMD 5-22-3.
In the first period, the ‘Dogs outshot the Huskies 13-11, with 13 different Bulldogs getting a shot apiece. Coole got an early test, and came up with the save when Jarrett Weinberger, who scored three straight goals in Friday’s 3-2 Tech victory, got loose for a break-in.
He also came up with a big save on a breakaway by Jaron Doetzel with 30 seconds left in the second period, and he made a similar save when the always-dangerous Paul Cabana sailed in on a breakaway late in the third period.
“I stayed patient tonight,” said Coole, who was cool.
The Bulldogs gained a 1-0 lead when they got lucky halfway through their first power play opportunity. Reierson wound up and shot from the left point, and goaltender Brian Rogers was so well-screened that when the puck hit him, he didn’t react until UMD’s Junior Lessard raised his stick in celebration. Then he whirled and dived into the net to retrieve the puck that had already eluded him.
“He didn’t ever see the puck until it was in,” said Tech coach Mike Sertich.
The goal, at 7:40 of the first period, was the only tally until almost the exact same spot in the second period. At 7:36 of the middle period, Tab Lardner passed across the slot to Brad Patterson, who, despite being checked on the play, managed to get his 10-footer off and put the puck in off the left post.
The rest of the second period was back to close-fought, tight-checking hockey, with neither team yielding many good scoring chances. The Huskies pretty much pinned the Bulldogs into their end through the second period, outshooting the ‘Dogs 15-3, but UMD never lost its poise, and responded with more force in the third period, although that, too, was scoreless.
Referee Mike Riley let the players battle it out through the third period. He called penalties on three occasions, and gave both sides offsetting penalties each time. For the three periods, Tech outshot UMD 39-25, and Tech had what probably was the most promising opportunity in the third, but Coole came up with a huge save on the always dangerous Paul Cabana, forcing overtime.
In the five-minute extra session, Riley called one penalty, an extremely unpopular one on Tech’s Matt Ulwelling, for running into Coole, after Coole had covered the puck and gotten a whistle. But only 38 seconds remained, and the Bulldogs were unable to penetrate Tech’s rugged defense. In fact, the ‘Dogs failed to get a shot in the overtime, while Coole stopped two Tech tries.
“I thought we played better tonight than we did in the first game,” said Sertich. “Coole was sharp, and I thought they got great goaltending all weekend. We had a lot of shots, and a lot of quality shots.”
Michigan Tech snows under Bulldogs 3-2 on 4th-liner’s pure hat trick
HOUGHTON, MICH.— The Winter Carnival promotion for the UMD-Michigan Tech hockey series urged the fans to dress in white and wave white “Tech Towels,” and the public address announcer pleaded with the fans to make it a “complete whiteout.” As it turned out, UMD had a couple of brief blackouts, and Michigan Tech’s Jarrett Weinberger capitalized by scoring all three goals for a 3-2 Tech victory.
UMD and Tech are very similar, not only in standing, where they’re in the lower reaches of the WCHA, but in talent and the ability to apply that talent with disciplined intensity. Both coaches told their teams specific focal points for Friday night’s game, and the one who listened best was obviously Weinberger, a 5-foot-9, fourth-line, senior wing from Detroit, who came into the game with seven goals for the season and scored a pure hat trick to lift the Huskies almost instantly from a 1-0 deficit to a 3-1 lead.
Coach Scott Sandelin wanted consistency of intensity, without the wavering that has plagued the Bulldogs frequently during the season. Michigan Tech coach Mike Sertich — remember him? — told his players he wanted them to play to their assets, with the fast guys using their speed, the big guys using their size, and everyone to concentrate on going hard to the net.
“It was a big night for me,” said Weinberger. “My parents were here, and it might be the last time they see me play. So, with them here, and being from Detroit, and with the great atmosphere of Winter Carnival, and the building the loudest I’ve ever heard it, this was pretty much a highlight for me.”
When asked if he ever had scored a pure hat trick — three consecutive goals — Weinberger said: “Not that I can remember.” Then he laughed, and acknowledged as how he’d probably remember, if he had.
Neither team scored in the first period, but Tech had the edge 10-6 in shots, and Rob Anderson was already making some acrobatic saves. Drew Otten jarred the whole building with a crunching bodycheck on Tim Laurila, a Tech junior from Moorhead.
Otten then gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead, blocking the puck free at his blueline and, despite never breaking completely free, he battled all the way down the ice to get free enough to score on goalie Brian Rogers at 1:51 of the second period. This was the chance UMD needed, taking the big crowd of 3,314 out of it, and a lead to build on. The building came crumbling down on the ensuing faceoff, however.
Jon Pittis scuffed at the faceoff and pulled it back to the right. Right winger Frank Werner dropped back and alertly flipped the puck diagonally across the rink. Weinberger had bolted, caught the pass at the UMD blueline with a step on the defense, and sailed in alone to beat Anderson for a goal at 1:58 — a mere seven seconds after Otten’s goal.
“That one probably won’t make any highlight films,” said Weinberger. “I lost the puck, but when you drive to the net with speed, something can happen.”
If that sounded like it was right out of the coach’s mouth, it was. “We worked on it all week, and coach Sertich said for the speed guys to use their speed and go to the net.”
Sertich smiled. “We did work on it all week, and he heard it best, I guess,” said Sertich, who is 6-11-1 since taking over a team that was 1-6-1 at the start of this season.
The 1-1 tie lasted until 16:45 of the middle period. The Bulldogs had hustled back to the point where their early shot deficit had been closed to 20-19, but then the Huskies got the next five shots, aided by a power play. The Bulldogs killed the slashing penalty on Steve Rodberg, but just two seconds after it expired, and before he could rejoin play, Brad Patterson passed the puck from behind the net to the slot, and Weinberger put it away for a 2-1 lead.
By chance, the Bulldogs almost scored 10 seconds after that goal, but the 2-1 count held until the third period, which opened with another Patterson pass finding Weinberger rushing hard to the net once again, and this time he barreled in and scored at 2:31 for his third goal in a row, a 3-1 lead, and his 10th goal of the season.
That looked like it would be pretty much it for the Bulldogs, but Tommy Nelson broke across center ice for a long pass from Mark Gunderson, and Nelson’s speed carried him past the defense and he raced in to score on the breakaway at 8:18.
Suddenly, it was 3-2, and again the Bulldogs had every reason for an inspired rally. Instead, the Huskies clamped down hard, and the Bulldogs barely mustered a threat until the end, when Sandelin pulled Anderson for a sixth attacker. The Bulldogs, who lost 4-3 to first-place North Dakota last Saturday when their goal as time expired was waved off, wound up with Nelson veering across the slot for a final shot at the buzzer this time, too, but Rogers made the save.
“That’s the trouble,” said Sandelin. “It takes us getting down by a couple of goals before we decide to kick it in.”
With a couple minutes to go, Sandelin called time out to plan the final strategy. Sertich took that opportunity to tell his team a few stress points. “I said the third guy should hold back so we don’t get outnumbered,” said Sertich. “And I told the ‘D’ not to pinch, the goalie to make sure he communicated, and don’t ice the puck.”
Sandelin closed the dressing room door and had a lengthy post-game talk with the team, bolstered by equally-frustrated assistant Steve Rohlik. What did he tell them? “It’s classified,” Sandelin said. “Extremely classified.”
He anticipates a couple of lineup changes for tonight’s game, but when asked whether those changes would be by pre-series design or based on how players played, Sandelin chuckled and said: “We don’t have enough players to change all the ones we should based on tonight.”
More seriously, Sandelin looked at the total-goal format for the Winter Carnival trophy, and added: “We can go one of two directions from here. We either show up and still win the weekend, and build from here, or we go the other direction.”
Bulldogs lose 4-3 to defending national champs
UMD’s hockey Bulldogs rebounded from Friday’s 6-2 loss to play one of their best games of the season in Saturday night’s rematch, but North Dakota got the benefit of two third-period goals and a disallowed game-ending UMD goal to beat the Bulldogs 4-3 before 4,987 fans at the DECC.
The first-place Fighting Sioux (15-4-2) were able to pull four points ahead of second-place Colorado College, which lost 7-5 at St. Cloud. They outshot UMD 43-20, but were literally saved by the bell — or at least referee John Seidel’s ruling on a controversial Bulldog goal that became a nongoal. Coming close, however, doesn’t do much to satisfy the Bulldogs, who regained their proper levels of intensity, but still are last in the WCHA at 2-17-2.
The ‘Dogs spotted the Sioux a first-minute goal, then came back for goals by Drew Otten, Nate Anderson and Jon Francisco to take a 3-1 lead before the first period ended. The Sioux got one back, from Quinn Fylling in the second period, then West Dorey, a quick senior who came into the game with only seven goals, scored at 12:37 and 16:28 of the third period, making it look like just another disappointing finish for the Bulldogs.
But this time the Bulldogs and coach Scott Sandelin weren’t willing to settle for the loss. Sandelin pulled sophomore goaltender Rob Anderson, who had played brilliantly with 39 saves in trying to hold the lead, and went with six skaters for the last two minutes.
“You know me,” said Sandelin. “I’m not one of those guys who waits until the last minute to get the goalie out. I figure, get him out early enough so you’ve still got time to score twice, if they get an empty-net goal.”
Bold stuff, from the rookie coach. But it worked. At least, the Bulldogs and their fans thought it had worked.
Andy Kollar, who had relieved Karl Goehring for the start of the second period, survived a strong finishing rally, particularly when Otten stickhandled in close but couldn’t get his best shot away. Then, with the final 10 seconds ticking off the clock, the Bulldogs made one last charge. With just a couple seconds to go, Otten got a wide-angle shot that wound up in the crease. Kollar went down to cover it, Francisco pried away at it. The puck went in, the red goal light flashed, the crowd went goofy, the clock said “0:00,” and referee John Seidel was emphatically waving his arms in the “safe” sign, which means no goal.
“I got my stick on it, and just got it under him,” said Francisco, who had a strong game, and the most impressive weekend of his two years in a Bulldog uniform.
The Bulldogs protested, but to no avail. Seidel told a press box official that he saw Kollar covering the puck, so he blew his whistle. The Channel 10 crew televising the game said they turned up their video replay, and heard no whistle. Francisco said he didn’t hear anything. North Dakota coach Dean Blais said Seidel told him the red light had come on before the puck went in. Seidel told a very agitated Sandelin that “something was wrong with your lights,” Sandelin said.
All of which left one very interesting question: If Seidel had indeed blown the whistle for the puck being covered, then instead of the game being over, there should be time left for a faceoff.
“I’m just disappointed it ended that way,” said Sandelin.
Blais said: “Give UMD credit, they scored some great goals — three nice goals in the first period. They were playing so well, we were running through our lines and not much was happening.”
The game had a familiar start, with Ryan Bayda scoring after only 42 seconds had elapsed. All the determination they could muster didn’t seem to matter against North Dakota’s high-skilled, high-speed first line. Bayda’s perfect pass put national scoring leader Jeff Panzer in on a 2-on-1, and when Rob Anderson blocked his shot, Bayda converted the rebound before the goaltender could regain his balance.
But that was all the big Sioux line got for the night, after scoring four goals, three by Bryan Lundbohm and one by Bayda, on Friday.
Sandelin learned that Judd Medak is lost for possibly the season with a third-degree shoulder separation from the last shift of Friday’s game. He countered by making up a line of Tommy Nelson with Nate Anderson and Francisco, and sent them out against the Panzer line. UMD’s unheralded trio outplayed the flashy Sioux unit, with Nelson assisting on all three goals.
Otten got the 1-1 tie when he smacked in a Nelson rebound on a power play at 7:00 of the first period, and the Bulldogs went ahead 2-1 at 13:30 when Francisco took an outlet pass from Nelson and squeezed past the defense on the left boards, before rushing deep and firing a hard pass at the crease. Nate Anderson deflected it in, as goaltender Karl Goehring had to contend with Anderson, Nelson and the puck all arriving at the same instant, and there was some dispute that Anderson had kicked the puck in.
“Sandy had them taking the man, and their goalie was standing on his head,” said Dorey. “Boy, I was getting frustrated.”
Otten and big Steve Rodberg rocked the Sioux with the majority of the Bulldogs heavy hits, with Otten punishing the Sioux defensemen at one end while Rodberg thumped several Sioux who came too close to goaltender Anderson. At one point, Lundbohm, who had blasted Anderson on Friday, was checked into the goaltender, and Rodberg didn’t hesitate to deal out a little revenge.
Fylling’s goal brought the Sioux close, but Anderson kept them down 3-2 until eight minutes remained. Then, Chad Mazurak’s shot was deflected and wound up to the left of the net. Anderson took a step and dived to cover it, but Dorey somehow got there in time to poke it under him and into the net.
At 3-3, Kevin Spiewak made a good move to get the puck to Dorey, who circled out from behind the net, to the slot, and scored with 3:32 remaining. “On the first one, I just got there in time to put it under him,” said Dorey. “On the second one, Spiewak made a great play to get me the puck.”
Lundbohm fills UMD net with bodies, then pucks in 6-2 Sioux romp
It was out of character for Bryan Lundbohm to race into the crease at full speed and blast UMD goaltender Rob Anderson into his own net, leaving him stunned for a minute or two. It was much more typical of Lundbohm to come out of the penalty box and put the puck into the net, not the goaltender, which he did three times.
The hat trick by Lundbohm led North Dakota to a 6-2 victory over UMD Friday night, before 4,552 fans at the DECC, reinforcing the Fighting Sioux hold on first place in the WCHA at 14-4-2, while also reinforcing UMD’s position in the cellar, at 2-16-2, going into tonight’s rematch.
Lundbohm was leading the nation in goals when he scored his 20th on Dec. 9, but since then, he had only scored one goal, while letting Jeff Panzer and Ryan Bayda do the scoring for the best line in the country. But after getting only one goal in eight games, the speedy junior winger from Roseau, who scored two goals as a freshman and 22 as a sophomore, notched his 22nd and 23rd goals in the second period and his 24th to open the third.
North Dakota had taken a 2-0 lead on goals by Quinn Fylling and Bayda in the first period. Fylling’s goal came after Adrian Hasbargen rushed up the right side and fed across the slot at 6:03. The Bulldogs came back from that early 1-0 deficit and were battling the Sioux on even terms until going on a power play at 15:00. Seventeen seconds into the power play, Bayda swiped the puck from Tommy Nelson at the UMD blue line and sprinted in all alone for his 14th goals of the season, a shorthanded tally for a 2-0 lead.
In the opening minute of the second period, Lundbohm caught a long pass and was flying up the right boards. He turned the corner on the last defenseman and veered straight at the net, closing in fast as he got a shot away. The puck hit Anderson, and, a millisecond later, so did Lundbohm.
“I was going to the net hard, and I tried to let up,” said Lundbohm, who also had to consider bracing himself for the impact.
Anderson said he focused on the save, and didn’t know what hit him. “I saw a big white cloud, and then black,” said Anderson, who was knocked back into the crossbar, jolting the net off its moorings and leaving the goaltender sprawled face down. All Anderson wound up with was a major-league headache — literally — although it might have been worsened by the figurative headache of seeing Fighting Sioux flying at him on breakaways throughout the game.
Referee John Seidell watched closely as the UMD trainer hurried out onto the ice to revive Anderson.
“I think the ref was waiting to see how long it would take him to get up,” said Lundbohm. “If he’d taken longer, he probably would have given me five minutes.”
Lundbohm’s reputation for not being a chippy player may have helped him avoid a major penalty and disqualification, so he went to the box for two minutes for “unsportsmanlike conduct.” UMD cut the score to 2-1 on a power-play tally when Nate Anderson’s shot from the right boards glanced off Judd Medak and past goaltender Karl Goehring at 1:29 of the second period. Medak, one of UMD’s most consistent players all season, got his seventh goal, but also left the DECC with his arm in a sling and headed for the hospital for x-rays of a separated shoulder.
His goal gave UMD life at 2-1, but less than a minute later, Lundbohm went to work when the Sioux got a power play. With the puck thrown into UMD’s end, a UMD defender took the man and left the puck free, just to the left of the net. Trouble was, next to arrive at the scene was Bayda, who spotted Lundbohm, lurking in the clear on the right side. Bayda passed and Lundbohm put away a power-play goal for a 3-1 lead at 3:31.
Six minutes later, UMD was guilty of one of the worst-looking line changes of the season. If it was “changing on the fly,” this one resembled the flight of ducks flying into the sights of sharpshooting duck-hunters. As all five Bulldogs hit the ice, they raced across the DECC rink at UND defenseman Trevor Hammer, another ex-Roseau star. Nobody coming on seemed to realize two Sioux were heading toward the UMD goal. Hammer simply fed the puck up the middle, hitting Lundbohm in stride. Lundbohm rushed in on what was actually a 2-on-0, but he didn’t need the escort service and scored to make it 4-1.
Jon Francisco got one back for the plucky Bulldogs at 15:57, when Jesse Fibiger moved in from the right point and circled behind the net, passing out front for Francisco to smack in.
Yet another lapse in team defense hit the Bulldogs at the end of the second period, however. The Bulldogs flung the puck deep into UND’s end with 12 seconds showing, and maybe they figured there wasn’t time for anything more to happen. But Goehring, as smart on the rink as his near-4.0 grade-point average in the classroom, immediately fired a 100-foot pass up the right boards. In an instant, the pass was deflected out to the UMD blue line, where Wes Dorey was dashing in for about the umpeenth solo effort at Anderson. Anderson stopped Dorey, and Jerrid Reinholz drilled him, getting a cross-checking penalty at 19:58.
With the score only 4-2, the Bulldogs needed to kill the penalty when the third period started. But no, Panzer fed out from behind the net and Lundbohm completed his hat trick at 1:05, his second power-play goal of the night.
Anderson had one more moment of torture at the hands of UND’s skilled players. David Lundbohm, Bryan’s freshman brother, skated from the right circle, across the slot, and made an amazing back-pass to Pat O’Leary, and the freshman from Fargo buried his shot at 4:41, making it 6-2.
“The guy carried right across the slot, then passed it back between his own legs,” said Anderson. “On 95 percent of the goals ever scored on me, I’ve felt I should have stopped them. But tonight, on five of their six goals, they should be congratulated.”
Scott Sandelin pulled Anderson at that point — “just to get him out of there,” he said — and sent in freshman Adam Coole. It proved to be a positive, as Coole stopped all three shots he faced.
“I’m not disappointed with our effort,” said Sandelin. “In a lot of areas, we played pretty well. But the mistakes we made were mistakes we’ve made before — we can’t turn the puck over, and we’ve got to keep people in front of you. We forechecked well, and we bottled ’em up and created some turnovers. But they’re a team of puck pursuit. They hound the puck, and when they get it, they bury it.”
Four 3rd-period goals, 63 shots, boost Bulldogs past Bemidji
Hanne Sikio wound up for a blistering slapshot at one point in Saturday night’s 6-1 UMD women’s hockey victory over Bemidji State, and Bre Dedrickson made the save, as she did 57 other times in the game.
“After I made the save on Hanne, one of my teammates came up to me and said, ‘You’re crazy to get in front of that shot,’ ” Dedrickson said, laughing. “It was a heck of a shot, and so was that one Brittny Ralph scored on. They’ve definitely got some talent, and they got a lot of shots tonight, but I’ll take it. It was fun.”
Yes, goaltenders are a different breed.
Dedrickson enjoyed playing acrobat as she tried to get in front of all 63 shots the Bulldogs sent flying her way in the game, and she held the Beavers in the game at 1-1 after one period and 2-1 after two.
But in the third period, Sikio scored her second goal, Ralph scored two goals for the second game in a row, and Jenny Hempel added the final tally in the last minute in a four-goal burst to give UMD its 10th straight victory, and boost them into second place in the WCHA at 11-4-1 (19-4-1 overall). Bemidji State is 4-13-1, 6-18-1 overall.
To the rest of the Beavers, it might have been less fun. A monster truck event filled the DECC with roaring engines and all sorts of noxious fumes Saturday night, and bumped the women’s hockey game to adjacent Pioneer Hall. The Bulldogs must have looked a lot like one of those monster trucks to the Bemidji State players, the way they kept rolling.
When the Bulldogs whipped Bemidji State 9-2 on Friday, they fired 59 shots on goal against goaltender Anik Cote, so the 63 more on Saturday gave them 122 shots for the weekend.
The only reason it wasn’t more of a blowout was Dedrickson. She used to tend goal for Eagan High School, where nobody was sure how good she was, because Natalie Darwitz and the Eagan girls offense usually spent almost every game at the far end of every rink.
“I always wanted more action, in those days,” said Dedrickson, who is now a sophomore at Bemidji State. “I like a lot of shots, and this was a good game for us. We played tough defense, and we stayed with them. They’re the best team we’ve played against all season.”
The Beavers also have a familiar presence to Up North hockey fans. Amber Fryklund, the former scoring sensation for Hibbing High School, who went to Mankato State but dropped out of school and reentered at Bemidji State last year, is now the Beavers offensive leader. She scored the game-opening goal on a power play to stake Bemidji to a 1-0 lead Saturday, and her presence made an impact every shift.
“Amber came to Bemidji last year, and she came every day to practice, even though she couldn’t play,” said coach Ruthann Cantile. “She has three years of eligibility for us, counting this year, and she’s made a big difference to us.”
When Fryklund popped her 16th goal of the season over Tuula Puputti, the Bulldogs came back to get a 1-1 tie, but it wasn’t until 13:02 that Sikio could score, stickhandling to the net from the right corner, jamming a shot and then smacking in the rebound. Not much to show for a 14-4 shot advantage.
In the second period, UMD outshot the Beavers 24-5, but only scored when Sanna Peura moved in on the right side, cut across the slot during a power play, and picked her spot through a screen of bodies before rifling in a 35-footer at 12:59. The 2-1 lead wasn’t much, for a 38-9 edge in shots.
But the Bulldogs turned up the pressure in the third period. Sikio moved up the slot for a hard shot, and when Dedrickson blocked it, Sikio converted her own rebound at 0:55.
Then it was Ralph, the senior defenseman who had two goals and two assists Friday night, who took over. At 6:09, she moved in from the right point, beat a defenseman to the outside, and while she didn’t seem to have any angle to shoot at, she shoveled a backhander that Dedrickson couldn’t control and it squirted through.
There was no doubt about Ralph’s second of the game and fourth of the weekend, when she moved in from right point and blasted a slapshot into the upper left corner at 9:06.
Dedrickson came back with a brilliant save on Sheena Podovinnikoff’s breakaway, and as UMD was outshooting the Beavers 24-2, they couldn’t beat Dedrickson again until 35 seconds remained. Then it took a stunning play, as Peura stickhandled into the zone and beat two or three defenders in the slot, then fed a pass ahead to Hempel, who was going hard to the net from the left. With scarcely time to react, Hempel redirected the pass into the upper left.
UMD coach Shannon Miller sent Riana Burke into the nets for the final eight minutes — but she had nary a save. And it wouldn’t have done any good to ask to borrow any of Dedrickson’s action, because she was enjoying herself.
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