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Girls NIT (Game 1): MN Seniors edge Team WI

By Michael Trzinski, WiPH Staff, 04/24/15, 7:00PM CDT

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MN scores game-winner with 18 seconds left

Team Wisconsin girls were tied at three late in the contest and when OT appeared imminent, Jordan Chancellor scored with 18 seconds left in the final period to get a 4-3 victory over TW Thursday in the CCM NIT at Braemar Arena in Edina, MN.

(History lesson: Braemar and Edina are the home of famous coach Willard Ikola, who won 616 games and eight state championships.)

Minnesota had a 1-0 when Sloan Sullivan (USM) scored with 30 seconds left in the first to send the tie game to intermission. 

Shots were 12-6 in favor of TW in the period.

Most of the second period was scoreless, with three total goals coming in the last 2:46 of the stanza.

Nicole Unsworth (USM) gave TW a 2-1 lead with just under three minutes remaining, with helpers to Kelly Knetter (Central WI) and Jacyn Reeves (Onalaska).

Corbin Boyd tied the game for MN with 33 seconds left in the period, only to see Team WI skate off with a 3-2 lead, courtesy of a score by Reeves with six seconds left in the period. Unsworth and Knetter had assists.

MN held a 13-11 shot edge in the period.

Abby Larson scored for MN with just over seven minutes left to tie the game before Chancellor's heroics with under 20 seconds left for the game-winner.

Shots were 14-11 in the period, edge to MN.

Julia Carle (13) and Ashley Corcoran (18) combined for 31 MN saves, while Kenzie Torpy (Icebergs) stopped 29 shots for TW.