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Yellowjackets sweep Green Knights, head to semis

Bailey Lane
Box Score

Yellowjackets 5, St. Norbert College 3
Box Score

SUPERIOR, Wis—In game one of the series with St. Norbert College, it was the Green Knights who put the pressure on the Yellowjackets early in the game.  In game two it was the Yellowjackets who returned the favor as they started off the game outshooting the Green Knights 6-0, the same margin edge that St. Norbert had in in Friday's series opener.  The Green Knights didn't record their first shot until about eight minutes into the period. 

An obstruction-interference penalty on St. Norbert at 9:28 of the first period put the Yellowjackets on the power play for the first time in the game.  They came up successful on that power play when Kaiti Graham (Middleville, Mich./Thornapple Kellogg) let a wrist shot go from the top of the right circle that caught St. Norbert goaltender Kaley Gibson off guard to give the Yellowjackets a 1-0 lead. 

Just like Friday night when they scored three times in a span of 2:56 in the first period, the Yellowjackets wasted no time building on the lead.  Ashlee Olson (Superior, Wis./Superior Senior) dished the puck up to Kiara DeKezel at the red line where she split the St. Norbert defense and went in for a breakaway.  DeKezel let a shot go that beat Gibson high on the glove side to widen the lead to 2-0. 

Each team took three penalties for six minutes in the first period.  The Yellowjackets outshot the Green Knights 12-10.
 
Penalties were one of the main storylines of the second period.  St. Norbert didn't waste any time going into the box as they took a boarding penalty just six seconds into the second period.  The penalty came back to bite them when Bailey Lane (Armada, Mich./Armada) put home a wrist shot to give the Yellowjackets a 3-0 lead, their second power play goal of the game. 

A high sticking penalty on the Yellowjackets' Dani Schultz (Morris, Minn./Morris Area) at 2:10 of the second period, and a cross checking call on Graham 1:37 later put the Yellowjackets five-on-three hole.  The penalty kill managed to kill Schultz's penalty, but were unsuccessful on the second one as St. Norbert's Zoe Kurth put a shot past Shanley Peters (Gnadenthal, Manitoba/Garden Valley Collegiate) to narrow the Yellowjacket lead to 3-1.  St. Norbert built on that momentum 1:06 later when Laurel Hill knocked a shot past Peters to make the score 3-2, and that's how the second period would end. 

The Yellowjackets and Green Knights were even with six shots on goal apiece.
 
The third period was all Yellowjackets.  Olson continued her superb play as of late 1:06 into the third period when she knocked in a shot to make the score 4-2 Yellowjackets.  The Green Knights answered approximately three minutes later thanks to a tripping call on Graham to tighten the Yellowjacket lead to 4-3. 

St. Norbert gave the Yellowjackets a run for their money in the latter part of the third period, but Sheryl Kaskiw (Souris, Manitoba/Souris Collegiate) put the game to rest with a power-play goal into the empty at 18:25 of the third period to make the final score 5-3. 
 
Peters made 20 saves for the Yellowjackets while Gibson came up with 24 saves for the Green Knights.
 
The Yellowjackets (17-7-3) will now advance to the O'Brien Cup semifinals, which are being hosted by UW-River Falls at W.H. Hunt Arena.  On Friday, March 2 the Yellowjackets will take on Adrian College.  Game time is to be determined.
 
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