NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Mollie Wise scored a hat trick to lead the College of Saint Benedict to a 5-1 victory over the St. Olaf College women's hockey team in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) series opener between the two teams on Friday evening at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

Wise scored once in each of the three periods and tallied the first two goals of the game for Saint Benedict (8-8-1, 3-8-0 MIAC), which built a 3-0 lead before junior Carolyn Carpenter got St. Olaf (0-16-2, 0-11-0 MIAC) on the board at 11:35 of the third period. The Bennies tacked on a pair of late goals, including an empty-netter by Wise with 1:28 to go to finish off her hat trick.

Wise got the scoring started for Saint Ben's with a power-play goal at 11:36 of the opening period as she deflected in a shot by Courtney Conlin from the right circle. She went on to double her tally and the CSB lead 1:17 into the second period, scoring seconds after Kailee Medved made a save on a breakaway by Maddie Anderson to give the Bennies a 2-0 lead.

Saint Ben's killed off 1:04 of a 5-on-3 power play for St. Olaf later in the second period as the score remained 2-0 after two periods. Riley Schneider extended CSB's lead to 3-0 at 10:31 of the third period before Carpenter answered 1:04 later, putting in a rebound after Medved saved a close-range shot by Carpenter.

Carpenter's goal was her third of the season and was assisted by classmate Mary Kate Eiden and first year Madeline Gag, as Gag held the zone on the right and got the puck to Eiden, whose shot from the slot was blocked into the path of Carpenter. Eiden's assist was her team-leading seventh point of the season.

Rylan Bistodeau tallied Saint Ben's second power-play goal of the night at 14:47 of the third to push the visitors' lead back to three before Wise added an empty-netter at 18:32 to close out the scoring.

Medved recorded 13 saves on her way to picking up the win. Sophomore Ivy Shonka led three St. Olaf netminders with 22 saves, while sophomore Grace Boswell-Healey had 18 and junior Kaitlyn Pellici had 11.

The Oles and Bennies complete their series on Saturday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. at Dave Torrey Arena in St. Cloud.