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Women’s hockey: Taylor Heise gets hat trick, Gophers score nine goals and rout St. Cloud State

staff report, pioneer press
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Less than 24 hours after Grace Zumwinkle recorded a hat trick in the Gophers women’s hockey team’s series-opening win over St. Cloud State, Taylor Heise decided to close the first half of the season with one of her own.

Heise had three goals and two assists to set a career high with nine points in a weekend series as the sixth-ranked Gophers crushed the 14th-ranked Huskies 9-0 on Saturday at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud.

For the second straight night, Minnesota (14-3-2, 13-2-2 WCHA) scored five goals in the middle frame, but it was Allie Franco opening the scoring at 18:53 in the first period with her first collegiate goal.

Meanwhile, goaltender Skylar Vetter tabbed her third consecutive shutout, stopping all 15 shots she faced. Vetter has not allowed a goal in the last 232:53 minutes of game action.

“A great night and overall great weekend,” Gophers coach Brad Frost said. “A big win on the road today. Another really solid effort for 60 minutes with everyone contributing. Heise with the hat trick, Vetter with back-to-back shutouts this weekend, (Abigail) Boreen with her 50th career goal and Allie Franco with her first. Everybody stepped up and contributed to a great game.”

Josefin Bouveng began the second-period onslaught at 2:45, Ella Huber scored at 10:07, and her goal was followed by back-to-back goals from Heise. Abigail Boreen scored one more to close the period, and she also scored the game’s final goal in the third. Zumwinkle scored early in the third to match Kelly Stephens for sixth all-time on the Gophers’ career goals list, and Heise scored in between on the power play to complete the hat trick.

Jojo Chobak stopped 35 of 44 shots she faced for the Huskies (11-10-0, 7-10-0).

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