NORTHFIELD, Minn. – Visiting Hamline University broke a 3-3 tie with three unanswered goals to down the St. Olaf College women's hockey team by a 7-4 score in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) series opener between the two teams on Friday night at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

St. Olaf (4-3-0, 0-3-0 MIAC) recovered from an early two-goal deficit to tie the game at 3-3 past the midway point of the second period, but Hamline (4-2-0, 2-1-0 MIAC) broke the tie less than two minutes later and scored twice in the first three minutes of the third on its way to the three-goal win. The Pipers were receiving votes in this week's USCHO Division III Women's Poll, while the Oles suffered their third-straight conference loss after opening the season with four-straight wins.

Sophomore Molly Terebazya extended her goal-scoring streak to five consecutive games with her second two-goal performance of the season for St. Olaf and has scored all seven of her goals over the last five games. First year Julia Larson added her first collegiate goal in the loss.

After Hamline scored twice in the first seven minutes, St. Olaf got goals from Terebayza and Larson two minutes apart midway through the period to tie the game at 2-2. Terebayza tallied her first goal of the night by directing the puck home off a cross-ice pass from classmate Solvei Berg-Messerole at the 10:18 mark before Larson outworked a Hamline skater behind the net on her way to picking up her first-career goal two minutes later.

Just 14 seconds after Larson's goal, however, the Pipers went back ahead on a goal by Sydney Lemke and the visitors took the 3-2 lead into the first intermission. With Hamline still holding the 3-2 lead, junior Rachel Wieland netted her third goal of the season unassisted at the 13:13 mark of the second, as Wieland threw the puck into a vacant net after the Hamline goaltender lost track of the puck behind the net after making a save to deny Wieland's initial shot.

The score remained 3-3 for just 1:41, however, as Nikki Olund broke the tie with a power-play goal at 14:53 of the second to give the Pipers the lead for good. Morgan Wohlers and Olund both scored in the first three minutes of the third period to stretch Hamline's lead to 6-3 before Terebayza scored her second of the night shorthanded two minutes after Olund's second goal. Ally Steffensmeier added a power-play goal midway through the third to cap the scoring on the 11-goal evening.

Hamline was 2-for-3 on the power play in the game and killed off all three of the penalties it committed. Kendra Nordick was the beneficiary of the seven-goal outburst for the Pipers, picking up the win despite yielding four goals on 19 shots. Sophomore Hannah Fritz had 13 saves but gave up five goals over the first 41:24 before classmate Carley Tuman stopped 11-of-13 shots over the final 18:36.

The series finale between the Oles and Pipers is set for 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 at TRIA Rink in St. Paul.