By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
LAKE FOREST, Ill. — After scoring a combined five goals in their first game of the two-game nonconference series—a 3-2 Cardinal victory—the Saint Mary's University of Minnesota and Lake Forest women's hockey teams decided to turn up the offensive heat a bit in Sunday's rematch.
 
In fact, the two teams scored as many goals in the first period Sunday as they had in the entire 60-minute game the previous evening.
 
By the time the dust finally settled at Alumni Memorial Arena, the Cardinals and Foresters had lit the lamp a combined nine times.
 
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, it was the Foresters whose offense proved to be just a bit more explosive, as Lake Forest scored a pair of third-period goals three minutes apart to break open a one-goal game and deal Saint Mary's a 6-3 setback.
 
For the second straight game, the Foresters got on the board quickly, scoring just 2:50 into the opening period on a goal by Amy Belde.
 
That goal was just the tip of the first-period iceberg.
 
Just 1:01 after Belde's tally, it was the Cardinals' turn, as Jamie Henderson (Madison, Wis.) found the back of the net for the second game in a row, beating Lake Forest goalie Jacque Rogers to make it 1-1.
 
The deadlock did not last long, however—in fact, it lasted all of 26 seconds.
 
Lake Forest regained the upper hand just 26 seconds after Henderson's tally, getting a goal from Olivia Spellmire to give the Foresters a 2-1 advantage.
 
It took the Cardinals eight minutes to answer Spellmire's goal, but answer they did, getting a game-tying goal from Jesse Cwik (Chicago, Ill.) off an assist from Courtney Moser (Blaine, Minn.) to pull Saint Mary's even, 2-2.
 
Lake Forest closed out the chaotic first period by netting its third goal of the frame—coming off the stick of Lexi Morgan at 17:56—to give the Foresters a 3-2 edge heading into the locker room.
 
The Foresters grabbed the game's first two-goal advantage, 4-2, midway through the second period, as Morgan netted her second of the game—and team-leading 14^th of the season—only to have Saint Mary's get one back with 1:18 remaining on a goal by Anya Hafiz (Woodbury, Minn.).
 
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, Hafiz's goal would be their final offensive highlight, as Lake Forest added its fifth and sixth goals of the game in a three-minute span late in the third period to ice the nonconference win.
 
Ary Ziakas (Palatine, Ill.) was busy between the pipes for the Cardinals, posting a career-high 41 saves, while Rogers stopped 21 of Saint Mary's 24 shots for the Foresters.
 
The Cardinals (7-6-0 overall) return to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play next weekend, hosting Concordia in a pair of contests at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena. Saint Mary's and CC will play at 7 p.m. on Friday, with the rematch taking place at 2 p.m. the following afternoon.