WCHA All-Stars Fall, 3-0, To Team USA

Puputti makes 47 saves for WCHA

OSU's Emily Hudak played for the WCHA All-Stars against Team USA.

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Oct. 5, 2001

MADISON, Wis. - The WCHA All-Star team dropped a 3-0 game to the 2001 U.S. Women's National Team at the Kohl Center on Friday night. Three different players, including Minnesota-Duluth Bulldog and former Minnesota Golden Gopher Jenny Potter, scored for Team USA. Potter notched the first and game-winning goal.

After a scoreless first period, Jenny Potter converted at 15:05 on a rebound. Karyn Bye deflected a Sue Merz left point shot that WCHA goalie Tuula Puputti stopped. The rebound went to Potter who sat alone in the right slot for the finish.

Team USA added a pair in the third to put the game away. Tricia Dunn scored off her own rebound after her first shot clanked off the post, 2:01 into the stanza. Katie King then clinched it with a wrist shot from the bottom of the left face-off circle at 7:11.

Puputti made 47 saves to help keep the WCHA in the game the entire night. Team USA netminder Sarah Tueting made 15 saves to earn the shut out.

The all-stars had scoring chances, but the best scoring chances of the night came in the third period. Hanne Sikio broke in alone and hit the post on a breakaway. Moments later, a teammate found the same post with a backhand that beat Tueting.

The WCHA All-Stars and Team USA meet again tomorrow at the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The game is slated for a 7:05 p.m., start.

			1	2	3	F
Team USA		0	1	2	3
WCHA All-Stars	        0	0	0	0

1st period - No Scoring. Penalties - WCHA, Rooth (high sticking), 2:03,
USA, Mleczko (body checking), 12:58.
2nd period - 1, USA, Potter (Bye, Merz), 15:05. Penalties - WCHA, Hudak
(cross checking), 1:18, USA, Uliasz (body checking), 18:42.
3rd period - 2, USA, Dunn, 2:01, 3, USA, King, 7:11. Penalties - USA,
Uliasz (body checking), 9:28, Zaban (high sticking), 17:17.
Shots - USA 9-23-18=50, WCHA 3-2-10=15. Saves - USA, Tueting, 3-2-10=15,
WCHA, Puputti, 9-22-16=50. Power plays - USA, 0-2, WCHA, 0-4.
Referee - Sjoujke Brown. AR - William Conybear, Shawn Thiele.