Women's ACHA hockey earned a series split with Minot State Saturday and Sunday at the Centene Community Ice Center in Maryland Heights, Missouri.

The Lions posted a 3-1 victory in the opener.  After the Beavers scored a goal in the first couple minutes of the game, Lindenwood answered with the next three.  Kennedy Frank netted the first with help from Mackenzie Drost and Kiara Stewart.  Tessa O'Connor and Kim Turcotte set up Dakota McAlpine for the second score, and then McAlpine earned the solo assist on an Ardyn Hawryshko goal.  Emily McDonald stopped 32 of the 33 shots she faced to earn the victory in goal.

Despite some late-period heroics, the Lions suffered a 4-3 overtime loss in the series finale on Sunday.  Kiara Stewart sounded the horn with her first collegiate goal with just 2.4 second remaining in the first on a feed from Teague.  Minot State knotted the game midway through the second, but Lindenwood retook the lead with just 1:01 on the clock when Frank split the pipes on a play set up by O'Conner and Callie Philippe. 

As the contest continued to go back and forth, the Beavers scored goals at the 13:49 mark of the second and at 8:14 in the third to take a 3-2 advantage, but the Lions countered just 46-seconds later with a Hallie Fisher goal at the nine-minute mark, assisted by MacKenzie White and Hawryshko.  The remaining regulation time expired without a deciding score, so the game went to overtime where Minot State capitalized on a power play for the game-winner at 2:39 in the extra frame.  Maia Busi stopped 35 of 39 shots to take the hard-luck loss.

With the split, Lindenwood now has a mark of 7-1-2 in Women's Midwest Collegiate Hockey (WMCH) action and 13-3-2 overall.  The Lions hit the road for a two-game set with Roosevelt University January 22-23.  The puck drops at 7:50 p.m. Saturday night and at 11:40 a.m. Sunday morning at the Edge Ice Arena in Bensenville, Illinois.