NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College women's hockey team completed a sweep of No. 13-ranked Hamline University by scoring a pair of third-period goals in a 2-1 victory on Saturday afternoon ta St. Olaf Ice Arena.

After coming back from 3-1 down in a 5-3 road win on Thursday night, St. Olaf (6-8-1, 3-4-1 MIAC) got third-period goals from junior Solvei Berg-Messerole and senior Kate Carfagnini to sweep nationally-ranked Hamline (10-5-0, 5-3-0 MIAC). The two-game sweep is the first for the Oles against a top-15 team in the USCHO.com poll archives, which date back to the 2006-07 season, as St. Olaf had lost its previous 40 games against nationally-ranked teams prior to Thursday night.

In a game where Hamline outshot St. Olaf by a 40-16 margin, junior Hannah Fritz made 39 saves to limit Hamline, which entered the game as the top-scoring team in the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC), to a single goal. The 39 saves marked the second-highest total of Fritz's career as an Ole.

Hamline limited St. Olaf to one shot on goal in the opening period, but Fritz stopped all nine shots the Pipers got on frame to keep the game scoreless after 20 minutes. The Oles had a pair of power plays in the period but did not generate a shot on goal in either opportunity.

Berg-Messerole set up first year Bella LaMere in front in the first 30 seconds of the second period for the first scoring chance of the game for St. Olaf, but Kendra Nordick was equal to the task for the visitors. Hamline finally broke through at 5:33 of the middle period when Haley Eder-Zdechlik fired the puck in under the bar on a breakaway to give the Pipers the lead.

St. Olaf nearly found a game-tying goal with six minutes to go in the period when the puck got behind Nordick, but a Hamline skater reacted quickest to get the puck out of the crease. LaMere had a chance on a 2-on-1 rush with 3:40 to go in the period, but Nordick thwarted the attempt to keep the Pipers ahead at the second intermission.

In the third, St. Olaf struck shorthanded at the 6:22 mark on a goal by Berg-Messerole to tie the game. Shortly after senior Sophie McBane hit the pipe on the penalty kill, first year Reese Swanson barely held the zone and got the puck in front to Berg-Messerole, who put in a rebound after her initial shot was saved. The goal was the first shorthanded tally of the season for St. Olaf and Berg-Messerole's team-leading sixth goal of the season.

Carfagnini delivered the deciding goal unassisted at 13:04 of the third period, corralling an attempted clearance by Hamline and scoring on the blocker side of Nordick. The goal was Carfagnini's second of the season, both of which have been game-winning tallies.

After Carfagnini's goal, Hamline got a power play with 4:11 remaining and came close to tying the game, but Erika Broten's shot through traffic from the slot hit the pipe with three minutes to go. Fritz also made a pad save on Nikki Olund's shot with two minutes remaining. The Pipers pulled Nordick with 1:17 to go and generated three shots on goal, but Fritz stopped all three to preserve the win.

St. Olaf will host Concordia-Moorhead next weekend for a pair of games, starting with a 7 p.m. puck drop on Friday, Jan. 24 at St. Olaf Ice Arena.