Beavers journey to face No. 2 Buckeyes

BEMIDJI, Minn. – The Bemidji State Women’s Hockey workforce makes its first street journey of the season this weekend and travels to No. 2 Ohio State University for a two-game, Western Collegiate Hockey Association collection.
 
The Beavers (2-2-0, 0-2-0 WCHA) and Buckeyes (2-0-0, 0-0-0 WCHA) start their WCHA Series Friday, Oct. 10 at 5:02 p.m. CST with sport two to comply with Saturday at 2:02 p.m.
 
Each sport of the collection might be streamed on-line at Big Ten Plus.
 
Bemidji State Notes

• The Beavers ended a four-game homestand final weekend selecting up their first two win and first collection sweep of the season after defeating Robert Morris University twice at Sanford Center.
• The Beavers started the non-conference collection towards the Colonials with a 3-0 shutout in sport one with sophomore Kaitlin Groess accumulating her first collegiate shutout after making 12 saves.
• Bemidji State then clinched the collection sweep with a 4-1 victory Saturday with junior captain Hailey Armstrong scoring all 4 objectives for the Beavers.
• She tied a program report for many objectives scored in a sport, set in simply the Beavers’ second yr in existence again in 1999.
• Armstrong totaled 5 objectives over the weekend tied for probably the most within the WCHA with WCHA Forward of the Week, Minnesota’s Abbey Murphy.
• Groess was distinctive in between the pipes permitting only one purpose in 40 pictures towards the Colonials for a .975 save share and 0.50 objectives towards common.
• Nine Beavers recorded some extent within the collection together with Armstrong, Morgan Smith and Kate Johnson who every recorded three or extra factors.
• The line of Armstrong, Johnson and Isa Goettl scored six of the Beavers’ seven objectives on the weekend.
• Bemidji State faces its second opponent ranked within the high three within the nationwide polls this weekend after opening the season towards No. 1 Wisconsin two weeks in the past.
• Armstrong paces the Beavers with 5 objectives in 4 video games this season and is second within the WCHA. She has scored 5 of BSU’s 9 objectives.
• Fellow junior Kate Johnson follows with 4 factors (1g-3a) whereas Morgan Smith (1g-2a) and Carmen Bray (3a) have added three factors.
• Bray leads the Beavers’ blueliners in factors and is tied for the eighth most within the WCHA.
• Groess has began all 4 video games for the Beavers and is 2-2-0 with a 3.28 objectives towards common, .893 save share and one shutout.
• Bemidji State leads the WCHA and is ninth within the nation with 60 blocked pictures averaging 15.00 per sport.
• 5-foot-0 inch freshman Katy Comstock is tied for the league lead with 10 blocked pictures.
• Bemidji State is 29-66-13 all-time towards Ohio State however has misplaced the final 17 conferences relationship again to the 2021-22 season.
• The Beavers are 12-38-6 when dealing with the Buckeyes in Columbus.
• The Beavers are in yr two below the management of head coach Amber Fryklund after going 6-30-1 throughout her first season as head coach.
• Fryklund returns 16 skaters from final season together with all 4 of her main scorers.
• She additionally returns 80-percent of objectives scored final season (45-of-56) and her high six purpose scorers.
• However, she misplaced three of her high point-getters from the blueline from the 2024-25 season.
• Fryklund returns each netminders in Kaitlin Groess and Eva Filippova who performed critical minutes between the pipes.
• She has introduced in 11 newcomers to the inexperienced and white together with transfers Carmen Bray (St. Cloud State) and Elly Klepinger (Minnesota).
• Morgan Smith highlights the Beavers’ returners after main the workforce in factors (20) and objectives (11) throughout her freshman season.
• Junior Hailey Armstrong will captain the Beavers through the 2025-26 season and shall be assisted by Smith and senior Raeley Carney.
• Armstrong leads all returners having scored 19 objectives over her profession and recording 28 factors.
• She is adopted by Smith with 20 factors and junior Kate Johnson with 17 (5g-12a).
• Eight freshmen make their inexperienced and white debut this season in Senja Leeper (Minnetonka HS), Lola Macuiba (Shawnigan Lake School), Kasey Senden (Hill-Murray HS), Addie Morris (Benilde-St. Margaret’s), Paige Smith (Edmonton Jr. Oilers), Maddie Kaiser (Balmoral Hall Prep), Katy Comstock (Warroad HS) and Ashlyn Hazlett (Minnetonka HS).

For extra info on the Bemidji State ladies’s hockey program, tickets or schedules, go to BSUBeavers.com, comply with the Beavers on X or Instagram, or like them on Facebook.
 
Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic packages with NCAA Division I males’s hockey membership within the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and ladies’s hockey membership within the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, whereas its 13 NCAA Division II packages maintain membership within the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
 
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