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Yahoo
23-02-2025
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Dodge County ends Warroad's reign in state championship overtime thriller
The Class A championship game of the Girls Hockey State Tournament will go down as one of the best in tourney history, and it was Dodge County ending Warroad's three-year run as state champs with a 4-3 overtime victory Saturday at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The ending was one that only the State of Hockey could produce. After trailing 3-1, Warroad rallied to force overtime and with 63 seconds left in the eight-minute extra session, Zoe Heimer collected a rebound after a shot fluttered off the goal pipe and slid the puck into crowd. The puck slid across the line for the winning goal, but Heimer was the only person on the ice to know the game was over. The officials whistled the play dead and the goal wasn't confirmed until a lengthy replay review was complete, giving the Wildcats the first state title in girls hockey history. The game was intense from start to finish. Taylor Reese broke the ice with the first goal of the game for Warroad at 14:21 of the first period, but 33 seconds later Heimer equaled the score for Dodge County. Goals by Kylie Meyer early in the second period and Noah Carstensen early in the third period gave the No. 1-seed Wildcats a two-goal cushion. Dodge County maintained the lead until the Warriors struck twice in the span of 39 seconds midway through the third period, and it was Vivienne Marcowka finding the back of the net for both. Warroad reached the title game by outlasting Orono 2-1 in a triple-overtime thriller on Friday. They got as close as a team can get to a four-peat, having won the last three Class A state titles by defeating Proctor/Hermantown in the 2021-22 title game, Orono in the 2022-23 state championship, and Dodge County last year. The Class AA state championship game features Edina against Hill-Murray.
Yahoo
20-02-2025
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Live updates: Day 2 at the Girls Hockey Minnesota State Tournament
After the top seeds in Class A advanced to the state semifinals on Wednesday, the big schools have the spotlight with Thursday's Girls Hockey State Tournament quarterfinals. Here are the results and games to come... In a stunner to start the tournament, No. 7 seed Rosemount upset the No. 2 seed Centennial/Spring Lake Park, avenging a 3-1 loss to the north metro power in the season opener. Sophie Stramel put Rosemount up 1-0 in the second period and Annalee Holzer's second goal of the game in the third period put the Irish up 3-1. The star of the game was Gianna Marchese, who made 33 stops in goal for Rosemount. Hill-Murray led 4-1 in the third period before Andover struck with consecutive goals from Maya Engler and Hannah Christenson to trim the deficit to one, but with an empty net the Pioneers sealed the victory when Emily Pohl carved a path behind the back of the net and scored to complete her hat trick. Emily Pohl is a sophomore and her sister, Anna Pohl, who also scored in the game, is only an eighth-grader. They are the daughters of Gophers greats Johnny Pohl and Krissy Wendell-Pohl. The top-ranked Hornets will look to repeat their 7-0 win over Farmington from earlier this season. It's a rematch of the Dec. 27 holiday tournament meeting in which Moorhead left the Twin Cities with a 3-2 win over the Fire.
