NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College women's hockey team registered its first Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) victory of the season with a 4-0 shutout of St. Catherine University on Thursday evening at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

Senior Kate Carfagnini, junior Emma Heath, junior Molly Terebayza, and senior Grace Lankas tallied goals for St. Olaf (4-7-1, 1-3-1 MIAC) in the win over St. Kate's (2-6-0, 1-4-0 MIAC). Junior Hannah Fritz had just 10 saves to make in recording her first shutout of the season and the 10th of her career.

On a night where the Oles got points from 11 different skaters, Terebayza was the lone Ole with a multi-point night after compiling a goal and an assist. St. Olaf, which has got points from 19 different student-athletes this season, outshot St. Kate's by a 28-10 margin in shots on goal and won 36 of the game's 48 faceoffs.

Coming off its highest goal-scoring output of the season in a 5-0 win over Manhattanville University on Sunday, St. Olaf got out to a 1-0 lead less than five minutes in on Carfagnini's first goal/point of the season. The senior was on hand to slide the puck home from the edge of the crease after first year Bella LaMere got the puck to Carfagnini from behind the net. The assist was the first of LaMere's collegiate career to go with her two goals.

Later in the first period, Heath doubled the Oles' lead with her first collegiate goal by lofting the puck in from in tight off the first assist/point of first year Jocelyn Orr's career. St. Olaf had just six shots on goal in the period but scored on two of them, while holding St. Kate's to just two shots on goal.

Terebayza netted the lone goal of the second period at the 4:10 mark to extend St. Olaf's lead to 3-0 after two. After circling behind the net, the junior scored from low in the left circle after a St. Kate's skater inhibited goaltender Lea Grassia on the play. Seniors Iona Welsch and Sophie McBane collected assists on Terebayza's third goal of the season, with Welsch's assist being her first point of the season.

Lankas closed out the scoring with a power-play goal at 17:18 of the third period, as the senior found the back of the net for the second game in a row. After Terebayza and junior Solvei Berg-Messerole exchanged passes in the offensive zone, Lankas scored from the left circle for her third goal of the season.

Fritz's 10-save shutout extended her program-record total to 10 for her career. Grassia made 24 saves in the loss for St. Kate's, including a couple of highlight-worthy stops to keep the Wildcats in the game in the second period. St. Olaf was 1-for-6 on the power play in the game, while St. Kate's was 0-for-3.

The two teams will conclude their MIAC series on Saturday, Dec. 7 with a 2 p.m. puck drop at Drake Arena in St. Paul.