The Minnesota Gophers women’s hockey team knew it would take between one and four points to clinch their first regular season WCHA Championship since 2019 this weekend. The Gophers decided to leave nothing to chance and with a pair of 7-1 wins over St. Thomas the Gophers won the conference.
The Gophers honored their 12 seniors prior to Saturday’s game, and started a lineup of six of the 12. But it was a freshman who got things started. Peyton Hemp scored less than two minutes into the game. The Tommies would get the equalizer past 5th year senior Lauren Bench in net, but Minnesota would add two more by the end of the period one by senior Taylor Heise and the other by another freshman in Ella Huber to take a 3-1 lead to the break.