Tough Defense, Solid Goaltending And Timely Scoring Lead To Win

WINONA, Minn. (12/06/25)---An Addie Moos goal with 28 seconds left in the second period proved to be the difference in Concordia's 2-1 win at St. Mary's.

The Cobbers used a tough defense, the stellar play of first-year netminder Abby Huselid and timely scoring to come away with the series split in Winona.

The win gives CC two in its last four conference games and moves the Cobbers to 2-6-0 overall and 2-4-0 in league play. The Cardinals fall to 3-6-0 in all games and 2-4-0 in the MIAC.

St. Mary's struck first when they netted a power play goal at 7:14 of the first period of play.

Concordia refused to allow SMU to gain any more momentum and then turned the tables when sophomore defender Allie Emineth netted her first collegiate goal to tie the game at the 10:54 mark of the first frame.

Emineth took a pass at the right point, walked the puck down to the top of the right faceoff circle and then unleashed a wrist shot that eluded all the players in front of the net and beat the SMU goalie.

Anna Nelson and Taylor Severson both picked up their third assists of the season on the game-tying goal.

The teams played the final 9:00 of the first period without posting another goal and the score was deadlocked heading into the second period.

It looked like the score line would stay tied at 1-1 heading into the third stanza but Moos had other ideas and came up with the game-winning strike.

Kylie Huseth started the play when she took the puck off the stick of a Cardinal player in the St. Mary's zone as CC was set up in its forecheck.

Huselid slid the puck to the middle of the ice just inside the blue line where Moos was waiting. Moos let go a seeing-eye wrist shot which the Cardinal's netminder never saw because of a screen set up at the top of the crease.

The goal at 19:32 was Moos' team-leading fourth of the year and Huseth earned her second assist of the season on the game winner.

The Cobber defense and Huselid finished off the win by blanking the SMU offense for the final 52 minutes of the contest.

The defense limited St. Mary's to only seven shots in the last 20 minutes of play and Huselid made sure those seven shots never found the back of the net.

Concordia outshot St. Mary's 33-23 for the game.

Huselid made 22 saves and had her season goals against average drop to 2.90 and her save percentage jump to 91.6%.

The Cobbers will finish off the 2025 portion of its schedule when they host Wis.-Superior in a 2-game series on Dec. 12-13.