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11/22/2020 | 2:07 PM

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MINNEAPOLIS -- Seniors Lauren Bench and Grace Zumwinkle led the No. 4 University of Minnesota women's hockey team to a 4-0 win over No. 5 Ohio State in the teams' season-opener at Ridder Arena on Saturday afternoon.

Bench logged a 36-save shutout in her Gopher debut as the goaltender transferred to Minnesota as a graduate student this season after playing her undergraduate career at Bemidji State. Zumwinkle scored a pair of goals, including netting the game-winner on the first shot on goal of the game. Madeline Wethington also tallied two points on a pair of assists while Josey Dunne and Taylor Wente found the back of the net for the Maroon & Gold as well.

Zumwinkle opened the scoring for Minnesota (1-0-0, 1-0-0 WCHA) just 28 seconds into the game and Dunne doubled the lead midway through the second period with her first career goal in her first game as a Gopher. Zumwinkle netted her second of the game with 4:24 remaining before Wente put away an empty-net goal with 2:53 remaining. 

Ohio State (0-1-0, 0-1-0 WCHA) received 14 saves from goaltender Andrea Braendli as the visitors outshot the Gophers, 36-18, for the game. Both teams were scoreless on the power play with Minnesota going 0-for-1 and Ohio State finishing the game 0-for-2 with the advantage.

Quotable
"It was a great way to start the season off with a win against a really good team," head coach Brad Frost said. "Obviously you were able to see their speed and their relentless forecheck. I thought we managed the puck pretty well. Early on in the first, we gave it away a couple times, but overall we played a pretty solid game for our first game out. Certainly, it was their first game as well. They just play a little different style that generates a little more offense and they did a nice job with that.

We got some real timely goals there in particular by Zummy to get us up early and then again to put us up by three. It was great to see Josey Dunne get her first goal of her Gopher career, and it was fun to have it be against Ohio State with her sister up in the stands as a grad assistant for Ohio State. Obviously Lauren Bench was tremendous for us. She did a really nice job of being very in control, not giving up a lot of rebounds, and when she did, our defense were generally there to clear it. It was just a great start to the year."

Notable
Zumwinkle's goal at the 28-second mark of the game was the fastest goal by a Gopher in a season-opener in program history. Zumwinkle bested a record held by Gophers alumna and Ohio State head coach Nadine Muzerall, who scored at the 1:45-mark of a season-opening match-up with St. Cloud State on Oct. 15, 1999. 

Up Next
The Gophers and Buckeyes wrap up this weekend's season-opening series at 2:07 p.m. CT Sunday at Ridder Arena.

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