Box Score Game Summary vs. Adrian / GameDay Online

ADRIAN, Mich. — It was a homecoming of sorts for Saint Mary's University women's hockey coach Terry Mannor when the Cardinals took the ice for the first of two nonconference games against Adrian Saturday.

The Bulldogs, however, were anything but gracious hosts to the Michigan native and his Cardinals.

Adrian erupted for four goals in the third period — including three off the stick of Stacy Kempson — as the Bulldogs handed SMU a 5-1 nonconference setback in the first-ever meeting between the two teams.

“It was a decent game — kind of sloppy, which I guess is to be expected after the long layoff,” said Mannor, whose team had not played since completing a Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sweep of Hamline with a 5-2 win on Dec. 6. “I thought we played pretty well for the first two periods, but once they punched that first goal in late in the second period, it just seemed to snowball — in a bad way.”

The Cardinals got on the board first, as Katie Cachey (Orland Park, Ill.) scored her fifth of the season — and third in SMU's last two games — at 15:43 of the first period.

SMU maintained its one-goal advantage through much of the second period, but Jessica Grubbs finally netted the equalizer for Adrian with 44 seconds remaining in the period.

That goal opened the floodgates for the Bulldogs, who scored 27 seconds into the third period on the first of Kempson's three third-period goals and never looked back in snapping the Cardinals' two-game winning streak.

Madeline Lenz (White Bear Lake, Minn.) finished with 24 saves for the Cardinals, while Adrian goalie Dana Timm stopped 20 of the Cardinals' 21 shots.

SMU, which falls to 3-7 overall, gets another shot at the Bulldogs on Sunday, when the same two teams square off in the second game of their two-game nonconference series at 2 p.m.