LAKE FOREST, Ill. — For the second game in a row, the Saint Mary's University women's hockey team scored the game's first goal.
 
And for the second game in a row, scoring first proved to be a bad omen for the Cardinals.
 
Lake Forest scored with less than 40 seconds remaining in overtime, lifting the Foresters to a 3-2 nonconference win over the Cardinals at Alumni Memorial Arena.
 
As was the case on Friday night, the Cardinals struck first in Saturday's rematch, as Taryn Dornself (Somerset, Wis.) scored her first collegiate goal at 5:23 of the first period to give SMU the early 1-0 advantage.
 
Lake Forest used a late-early 1-2 combination to wrestle the lead away from Saint Mary's — scoring with 12 seconds remaining in the second period to knot the game at 1-1, and adding another three minutes into the third stanza to take its first lead of the game, 2-1.
 
The Foresters would maintain that one-goal advantage until Kas Kingston (Black Diamond, Alberta) took matters into her own hands, scoring her second goal in as many nights with 37 seconds remaining in regulation to knot the game at 2-2 — and send it into overtime.
 
Saint Mary's had a golden opportunity to seal the OT victory with 1:36 remaining, but Allie Urlaub (Burnsville, Minn.) fired high and wide on a penalty shot. Seconds later, it was the Foresters' turn to be stymied, as SMU's freshman goalie Celeste Rimstad (Richfield, Minn.) — making her first collegiate start — made two highlight-reels saves to keep the game deadlocked.
 
Unfortunately, the third spectacular save wasn't in the books for Rimstad, as Lake Forest's Karya Dean picked up a loose puck and slipped it behind the freshman goalie for the game-winner.
 
The Cardinals (0-2-0 overall) are back in action next weekend, playing host to UW-River Falls in a 7 p.m. nonconference matchup next Friday at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena, before heading to Hobbs Ice Arena in Eau Claire, Wis., for a 2 p.m. showdown against UW-Eau Claire the following afternoon.
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