MOORHEAD, Minn. – Junior Annika Patterson scored a pair of shorthanded goals in her team's three-goal third period to lift the St. Olaf College women's hockey team to a 4-2 bounce-back victory over Concordia-Moorhead on Saturday afternoon at Moorhead Sports Center.

A night after falling to Concordia (3-3-0, 1-3-0 MIAC) by an 8-2 score, St. Olaf (5-3-0, 1-3-0 MIAC) rebounded by breaking a 1-1 third-period tie with three special teams goals to pick up its first conference victory of the season. Senior Carolyn Carpenter had the go-ahead power play goal at 11:21 of the third before Patterson tallied a pair of shorthanded goals – one an empty-netter – as the Oles snapped their three-game losing streak.

The win was St. Olaf's first over Concordia-Moorhead since Jan. 11, 2013. The Cobbers were unbeaten (11-0-4) in the last 15 head-to-head meetings.

The Oles took an early lead when first year Lauren Spear opened the scoring at 6:36 of the opening period off an assist from junior Madeline Gag, who picked up her first point of the season on the goal. Spear's tally was the lone goal of the opening two periods as St. Olaf carried a 1-0 lead into the third.

Concordia evened the game at 1-1 at the 6:17 mark on Brenna Mjoness' third goal of the weekend for the first of the five third-period goals. Carpenter gave the Oles the lead back five minutes later with a power-play tally at 11:21, which was St. Olaf's sixth power-play goal in eight games this season.

A little over two minutes after Carpenter's go-ahead goal, Patterson scored unassisted with the Oles down a skater at 13:35 and St. Olaf killed off the rest of the penalty to maintain the two-goal lead. Down by two, Concordia pulled its goaltender with 3:34 remaining before the Oles were whistled for another minute penalty with 1:48 to go.

The Cobbers kept their net empty to create a 6-on-4 advantage, but the move did not pay off, as Patterson scored unassisted 35 seconds into the penalty kill to seal the win. With St. Olaf still on the penalty kill, Concordia got one goal back on a power-play, extra-attacker goal by Hannah Christian with 11 seconds remaining.

Senior Grace Boswell-Healey made a season-high 29 saves to pick up her third victory of the season, while Kiana Flaig had 19 stops in the loss. St. Olaf scored on all three of its shots on goal in the final 20 minutes.

St. Olaf visits fourth-ranked UW-River Falls in a non-conference contest on Tuesday, Nov. 23 at 7 p.m.