The winning streaks keep piling up for the Bulldogs.

With a 3-0 win over Minnesota Stat University, Mankato Friday night at Verizon Wireless Center in Mankato, Minn., the No. 3 University of Minnesota Duluth women's hockey team extended both its current win streak to five games and its impressive victory span over the Mavericks.  UMD has now defeated MSU in 16-consecutive outings dating back to the 2012-13 season.

The Bulldogs broke a scoreless game wide open midway through the second period on Ashleigh Brykaliuk's 12th goal of the year at 9:07.  29 seconds later, senior blueliner Sidney Morin stretched out her career-long scoring streak with her third goal over a six-game to give UMD a 2-0 lead.

UMD put as many shots on Maverick goaltender Brianna Quade in the final stanza (18-6) as it did in the first two periods combined (18-8), and the result was a third goal for the Bulldogs.  Rookie forward Brooklynn Schugel scored her second goal in as many games, burying a loose puck in the MSU crease at 7:24 for the 3-0 advantage.  It was all the offense Bulldog netminder Maddie Rooney -- who made 14 saves -- needed to earn her third shutout of the season and fifth of her career.

Quade made a total of 33 saves for the Mavericks, who fall to 4-13-2 overall and 2-12-1 in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

The Bulldogs improve to 13-3-3 overall and 10-3-2 in the WCHA and will wrap up the 2016 portion of their season tomorrow afternoon with MSU at 3:07 p.m.

BULLDOG NOTES:  UMD is third place with 33 WCHA points,  just five points behind the University of Wisconsin in second with 38 ... with her goal, Ashleigh Brykaliuk has now amassed a point in her last 10 games ... Brykaliuk has seven goals and six assists for 13 points over that span ... Sidney Morin's goal extended her six-game scoring streak to six points (three goals, three assists) ... With five goals and eight assists for 13 points, Morin leads all defensemen in the WCHA in scoring ... Both Maria Lindh and Sydney Brodt have now registered points in their last three games ... Lindh has two goals and an assist for three points, while Brodt has three assists ...
the Bulldogs didn't surrender a single penalty Friday night, the first time UMD has managed that feat this season.