WINONA, Minn. – After combining for seven goals in the first game of their Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series on Friday, the Saint Mary's University and Bethel women's hockey teams decided to take a different path too the same end — overtime.
 
The Cardinals — who dropped a 4-3 OT decision to the Royals on Friday night — road the shutout goaltending of senior Jordan Keeley (St. Peter, Minn.) to a 0-0, overtime tie in their rematch with the Royals Saturday afternoon.
 
And more importantly, the tie, along with the extra point on Allie Urlaub's (Burnsville, Minn.) shootout goal, locked up the No. 3 seed — and a home game — for the Cardinals in the upcoming MIAC Playoffs.
 
Keeley was the star of the day, as the senior — one of 10 seniors playing in their final regular-season home game — kicked out all 19 shots she faced, not to mention all three BU shooters in the shootout, en route to her third collegiate shutout.
 
Saint Mary's — which has now played to a 0-0 tie in each of the last two seasons, battling Concordia to a scoreless deadlock on Feb. 6, 2021 — came up big twice on the penalty kill against the Royals, killing a 5-on-4 in the final two minutes of regulation and killing a two-minute 4-on-3 BU power-play in the overtime period.
 
The Cardinals, who improve to 13-9-1 overall and locked up the No. 3 seed in the MIAC Playoffs with a 10-5-1 conference mark, will open post-season play on their home ice next Saturday, entertaining Saint Benedict in a 7 p.m. quarterfinal matchup.
 
  Read Full Article