NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Alyssa Wallace netted a hat trick and added an assist as the University of St. Thomas defeated the St. Olaf College women's hockey team by a 6-1 margin on Saturday evening at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

Wallace scored once in each period for St. Thomas (3-1-1, 2-0-0 MICA), which scored the game's first five goals before first year Samantha Martin tallied her first collegiate goal for St. Olaf (0-6-0, 0-2-0 MIAC) in the final minute of the second period.

Sophomore Maddie Anderson and senior Maddie Etienne each picked up their first points of the season with assists on Martin's goal.

Wallace scored the first of the Tommies' three first-period goals at 4:07, weaving her way through center ice before firing the puck into the top-right corner of the net. Later in the period, St. Thomas got goals from Rachel Werdin and Anna Erickson 1:34 apart inside the final five minutes to take a 3-0 lead into the first intermission.

St. Thomas added power-play goals from Wallace at 1:16 and Allie Monrean at 10:06 of the second period to extend their advantage to 5-0. Between the two goals, junior Olivia Keske rang a shot off the cross bar as she nearly got the Oles on the board.

With time winding down in the second, Martin registered St. Olaf's lone goal of the game, as her shot from the right point ricocheted in off a Tommie in front of the net with 32 seconds remaining in the period.

In the third period, Wallace completed her hat trick with the lone goal of the period at 9:40. Wallace's third-period goal was the lone shot that got past first year Taylor Smith, who made 25 saves in 29:54 in net in her first collegiate game.

Junior Kaitlyn Pellicci made 26 saves in the first 30:06 of the contest before making way for Smith midway through the game. Kylie Watts earned the victory for the Tommies with an 11-save evening in 53:30 between the pipes.

St. Olaf faces nationally-ranked Hamline in a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) series next weekend, beginning with a 7 p.m. puck drop at TRIA Rink in St. Paul on Friday, Nov. 22.