By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
STEVENS POINT, Wis. — You'll have to forgive Saint Mary's University of Minnesota women's hockey coach Greg Moore if he's feeling a strange sense of déjà vu right about now.
 
After all, the Cardinals' performance against Marian Saturday evening during the second day of the UW-Stevens Point Crossover Tournament looked eerily similar to Friday night's.
 
How similar?
 
Both games went into overtime — and both games ended with a 1-1 deadlock.
 
Lexie Budensiek (Farmington, Minn.) scored with less than five minutes remaining in regulation to erase a 1-0 Marian advantage and earn the Cardinals their second straight tie.
 
After back-to-back scoreless periods in the first and second periods — thanks to a 12-save effort from Saint Mary's Ary Ziakas (Palatine, Ill.) and a 24-save showing by her Marian counterpart Lindsey Strainis — it was the Sabres who would strike first.
 
Abbey Dokken broke the scoreless deadlock, beating Ziakas at 6:52 of the third period.
 
Marian would cling to that one-goal advantage until the 14:03 mark, when Budensiek scored her second goal of the season, off an assist from Delaney Wolf (Bismarck, N.D.) — who netted the Cardinals' lone goal in Friday's 1-1 tie against UW-Stevens Point — to pull the Cardinals even.
 
Neither team would break through over the final 5:57 of regulation, or through the five-minute overtime, leaving Saint Mary's with its second straight 1-1 decision.
 
Ziakas finished with 18 saves in goal for the Cardinals, while Strainis stopped 37 of Saint Mary's 38 shots.
 
The Cardinals (4-6-2 overall) are right back in action on Tuesday, when they return home to the Saint Mary's Ice Arena for a 7 p.m. nonconference showdown against nationally ranked UW-River Falls.