Max Steigauf

Max Steigauf / Sports Director / @MSteigauf Summary The #10 ranked Huskies women’s hockey team was swept by the #2 Badgers, but had multiple players have standout performances, including goalie Jojo Chobak who was named the WCHA goalie of the week. Chobak made 45 stops in nearly 63 minutes of play. Game One First period

MHOCK: The St. Cloud State men’s hockey team wrapped up their final regular season home series of the year last weekend against the Denver Pioneers. In game one the Pioneers scored first less than five minutes into the game and never trailed. Denver bombarded the Huskies with three goals in the first period on their way to a 6-2 rout of St. Cloud. In game two Denver once again scored first tallying the only goal of the first period, but game two would have a similar result with Denver scoring four times in the third to sweep St. Cloud 7-2. The Huskies will play the Duluth Bulldogs this weekend, and both games can be heard on 88.1 KVSC.

MHOCK: The men’s hockey team travelled north to Duluth to finish the regular season against the Bulldogs. SCSU scored twice in the first 20 minutes to open up a 2-1 lead on Duluth. The Huskies doubled their lead in the second period scoring another two goals to lead 4-2 heading into the final period. The Bulldogs battled back scoring three of the next four goals to force OT in game one, and with seven seconds left in the extra frame UMD would score to take game one 6-5. Game two got off to an ugly start with the Bulldogs scoring twice in the second period to start the scoring. St. Cloud answered with two goals of their own to tie the game heading into the third period. Duluth pulled away on the third scoring twice to beat the Huskies 4-2. St. Cloud now will gear up for the NCHC quarter finals against the Western Michigan Broncos at the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center this weekend.

HOCK: The men’s hockey team travelled to the Xcel Energy center to defend their NCHC playoff crown over the weekend against the #3 Denver Pioneers. The Huskies would score first, less than two minutes into the game with Cooper Wylie’s third goal of the season. The Denver Pioneers would answer back about seven minutes later starting a follow the leader back and forth game. The huskies lead four separate times in the game but by the end of 60 minutes the game was tied at four. Six minutes into OT Zeev Buium (z-EVE BOO-yum) would poke the puck past Isak Posch to advance Denver to the NCHC final. That loss ended any hope of making the NCAA tournament for SCSU and they end the season 17-16-5.

Share this:Share this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShare this on Linked InShare this on Google PlusShare this via EmailWith Ohio State winning NCAA Women’s Hockey Championship last weekend. Now is a good time to take a look back at the Huskies outstanding 2023-24 season. Lotta Hype Lotta Results!

BB: St. Cloud State’s baseball team was in Sioux Falls this weekend playing the Sioux Falls Cougars. The Huskies started the series strong scoring four runs in the second inning, and tallying another five en route to a 9-1 series opening win. SCSU would come back to earth in the second game. St. Cloud saw their 7-1 lead vanish in the final three innings of an 11-7 heart breaker. St. Cloud started Saturday’s double header by taking game three 3-2 off the great start from Payton VanBeck, who went 6innings while only allowing 7 baserunners and striking out five. The Huskies looked to win the series in game four. Sawyer Smith knocked in a pair of runs in the third inning giving the Huskies the lead. Smith would then collect another 2 RBI in the sixth inning giving SCSU enough cushion to beat the Cougars 7-3.

BASE: The Huskies baseball team found all the offense they needed in their four game sweep against the Northern State Wolves. St. Cloud outscored Northern State 38-8 in the series with two games ending with St. Cloud scoring ten plus runs. The Huskies now have a season best six-game win streak. They will have a mid-week two game stint against the Concordia St. Paul Bears on Wednesday.

BASE: The Huskies baseball team had a double header on Saturday against the U-Mary Marauders. In game one the huskies used a seven run 3 rd inning to cruise past U-Mary 15-1 with redshirt Junior Luke Tupy (TOO-pee) collecting his sixth win of the year. In game two the huskies offense continued, but a pair of five run innings allowed the Marauders to take game two 12-6. That would set up a rubber game on Sunday against the two NSIC teams. The Huskies found their offense once again early scoring five runs in the first inning. St. Cloud found multiple ways to extend their lead which was tested by U-Mary late but St. Cloud’s lead held up for a 13-11 win.

BASE: The Huskies baseball team travelled to Minot over the weekend to play the Minot State Beavers in a weekend three game series. In game one a pair of Huskies homeruns in the second inning gave St. Cloud the lead they needed to win 5-2. On Saturday it took a bit for the offense to show up, but Cal James would get St. Cloud on the board in the fourth inning with a solo homerun. The last three innings the Huskies pulled away from Minot, outscoring the Beavers 6-3 to take game two 9-5. Sunday’s game started rough with Jack Habeck giving up two runs in the first inning. St. Cloud responded by tying the game in the second but the Beavers notched another three runs on the Huskies’ starter to avoid the sweep, and win 5-3.

St. Cloud State’s Klara Hymlarova will be staying in the state of hockey after Monday night’s second annual PWHL draft.