ST. PAUL, Minn. – The St. Olaf College women's hockey team dropped its regular-season finale, 3-0, to St. Catherine University on Saturday afternoon at Drake Arena.

St. Catherine (8-15-1, 4-12-0 MIAC) scored once in each period to blank St. Olaf (9-16-0, 3-15-0 MIAC) in the final game of the regular season for both teams. The Wildcats held a slender 24-23 advantage in shots on goal in the game, as the Oles could not find a way past Karly Schmidt, who recorded a 23-save shutout for the hosts.

A day after falling to St. Olaf in the final minute, St. Kate's opened the scoring with a power-play goal by Maiah Robert at 12:41 of the opening period. Trailing 1-0 after one, the Oles had 1:45 of 5-on-3 power-play time early in the second period, but Schmidt stopped all three shots St. Olaf mustered on the power play.

After killing off the penalties, St. Kate's doubled its lead at 6:30 of the second period on a goal by Sophia Gorski. The Wildcats tacked on a third goal from Marie Reimer at 8:31 of the third period to close out the scoring.

Senior Grace Boswell-Healey suffered the loss with a 21-save afternoon for St. Olaf, which is now locked into the No. 10 seed for the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Playoffs.

The Oles will visit the yet-to-be-determined No. 7 seed in the first round on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m.