Fresh faces, defense shine in annual spring football game
Youth and defense were on display as the Wisconsin football team wrapped up spring practice with its annual Cardinal-White game Friday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
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Youth and defense were on display as the Wisconsin football team wrapped up spring practice with its annual Cardinal-White game Friday night at Camp Randall Stadium.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — It wasn’t supposed to end this way for the Wisconsin women’s hockey team. The nation’s top-ranked team—statistically and in the polls all season—which also had the best player in women’s hockey fell short of a national championship Sunday afternoon as No. 2 Clarkson defeated the top-seeded Badgers 3-0.
ST. CHARLES, Mo. — After falling in the semifinals the past three seasons, No. 1 Wisconsin (33-2-4) began the season with an all-in mentality towards a national title. However, late in the game Friday evening, it appeared that the Badgers might find themselves again on the wrong end of a close semifinal game.
Top-ranked Wisconsin continued its quest for a fifth national title, winning the WCHA Final Face-Off last weekend for the third-straight year. The Badgers (22-2-4 WCHA, 31-2-4 overall) secured the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA tournament and will host No. 8 Robert Morris (24-4-6 overall) in the quarterfinals.
All season long No. 1 Wisconsin and North Dakota have played tough, physical—and at points chippy—games. With its season on the line, the Fighting Hawks gave the Badgers all they had, but it was UW who came out with the hard-fought 2-1 victory, thanks to junior forward Emily Clark’s ninth game-winning goal of the season.
Top-ranked Wisconsin (22-2-4 WCHA, 29-2-4 overall) will look to win back-to-back WCHA Final Face-Off titles this weekend after sweeping Minnesota State last weekend at LaBahn Arena.
Five different Badgers scored goals as top-ranked Wisconsin (23-2-4 WCHA, 27-2-4 overall) routed Minnesota State (4-22-3, 7-25-4) 7-0 to open WCHA playoff play Friday night at LaBahn Arena.
For the second straight game, 65 minutes was not enough time to decide a winner between top-ranked Wisconsin and No. 4 Minnesota. And again it was the defense and the goalies who shined.
Saturday afternoon, it took 65 minutes and a 12-round shootout to determine who would get the extra point between top-ranked Wisconsin and No. 2 Minnesota-Duluth. Sunday, with a WCHA regular season title on the line, the Badgers put together arguably their best performance of the season.
Back in 1999 when the Wisconsin women’s team played its first game, few knew what to expect from the program. That team went 19-16-2. Fast forward 16 years and four national titles later, and Wisconsin has become one of the most dominant programs in women’s hockey. Friday afternoon, the program passed another milestone: its 500th win came by way of a 6-1 road victory over Bemidji State.
Every great team, regardless of the sport, has had that one shortcoming that makes people think “yeah, but…” that they needed to overcome to hit on all cylinders and compete for a title. For the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team, that “yeah, but…” item has been the power play. That is until recently.
Top-ranked Wisconsin found themselves in a situation that they hadn’t faced much throughout the season when North Dakota arrived at LaBahn Arena Saturday afternoon—a physical game.
Fresh off a home sweep of St. Cloud State, No. 1 Wisconsin (15-2-1 WCHA, 20-2-1 overall) looks to continue to flex its high-powered offense against North Dakota (9-5-4, 12-7-5).
Wisconsin senior captain Sydney McKibbon knew that for the Badgers to beat No. 2 Minnesota they would need to start fast.
Thanks to a high-octane offense and solid goaltending, No. 1 Wisconsin swept Cornell 3-0 and 5-2 this weekend at LaBahn Arena.
Senior goalie Ann-Renée Desbiens recorded her 43rd career shutout to tie the NCAA career shutout record, as top-ranked Wisconsin (8-0-1 WCHA, 10-0-1, overall) blanked Bemidji State (2-6-1, 4-6-1) 5-0, Saturday afternoon at LaBahn Arena.
After spending nearly a month playing exclusively on the road, top-ranked Wisconsin (7-0-1 WCHA, 9-0-1 overall) is set to return to LaBahn Arena for a weekend series against Bemidji State (2-5-1, 4-5-1).
Behind two key goals from junior forward Baylee Wellhausen, top-ranked Wisconsin (7-0-1 WCHA, 9-0-1 overall) beat Minnesota State (0-7-1, 2-7-1) Saturday by a score of 3-1 to sweep the weekend series.
No. 1 Wisconsin (6-0-1 WCHA, 8-0-1 overall) defeated Minnesota State (0-6-1, 2-6-1) 3-0 Friday afternoon in Mankato, Minn.
Nearing the end of a six-game road stretch, top-ranked Wisconsin (5-0-1 WCHA, 7-0-1 overall) heads to Mankato, Minn., to take on Minnesota State (0-5-1, 2-5-1) this weekend.