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| Maddie Bowe recorded her second shutout of the season (photo by Jim Lindquist) |
The goals didn't come often or easy but some quality play in the defensive zone and a good night in net by goalkeeper Maddie Bowe proved more than enough to give Farmington (2-12-1) its first conference win in five tries.
" Our past five games we have either outshot or matched our opponents shots on net but we have been outscored 14-6," coach Jon Holmes said. "So the positive there is that we have been doing a much better job getting the puck to the net... but we were just not scoring and we were allowing too many goals.
"We made a switch in lines three games ago to try and give us a more defensive approach and that switch has paid off with us only giving up four goals... If we can keep our defense going and somehow find a way to keep the twine moving we should be looking much more solid than the first half of the year."
The visitors outshot the Stars 11-2 in the first period but didn't score until Grace Gavin notched her team-high fifth goal of the year in the second. Haleigh Zwart and Megan Stivers assisted on the eventual game-winner.
Michaela Tonsgaer (from Haley Doll) found the net later in the second period to close out the night's scoring.
The pesky Tiger defense limited Holy Angels to just 12 shots for the night and kept the puck in the Stars end of the rink most of the night.Bowe registered her second shutout of the season.
The Tigers are hoping to continue their quality play next Tuesday when they look for their first home win of the season when Northfield comes to Schmitz-Maki Arena for a Missota Conference tilt. The Raiders scored a 3-2 win when the two teams met Dec. 4 in Northfield.
