By
DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — Less than 24 hours after erupting for a season-high six goals in a 6-2 win over Saint Benedict, the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's hockey team was limited to just a pair of goals in the teams' rematch Saturday afternoon.
And two goals was enough for the Cardinals to complete the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sweep.
Anya Hafiz (Woodbury, Minn.) scored with 12 seconds remaining in overtime to lift the Cardinals to a 2-1 victory over Saint Benedict at Dave Torrey Ice Arena.
Jesse Cwik (Chicago, Ill.) was the Cardinals' offensive leader in Friday's 6-2 win, recording her first collegiate two-goal game. And Hafiz followed her senior teammate's lead on Saturday, scoring both of the Cardinals' goal—the first at 2:11 of the second period and the second late in overtime.
Eight minutes after Hafiz's fourth goal of the season broke a scoreless, second-period deadlock, CSB's Shelby Schneider knotted the game once again, beating Saint Mary's goalie
Ashley Corcoran (Red Wing, Minn.) for her second goal of the year.
The game would remain deadlocked through the remainder of the second period—and the entire third period—setting up Hafiz's last-second, overtime heroics.
Corcoran finished with 31 saves—including 11 in both the second and third periods and the only Saint Benedict shot on goal in the overtime—while CSB goalie Kailee Medved stopped 29 of the Cardinals' 31 shots on goal.
Saint Mary's (3-3-0 MIAC, 5-4-0 overall) is back in action on Saturday, stepping out of conference play for a 7 p.m. nonconference matchup against UW-Stevens Point at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena.