Box Score It is probably not the way Hamline head women's hockey coach Natalie Darwitz would have drawn it up. But she will take the final results gladly. 

Thanks to outstanding goaltending by Annie Juergens -- some even more outstanding work by the team's penalty killers -- the Pipers are off a 2-0 start in MIAC play for the first time in school history. They got there with a 2-0 win over St. Olaf Saturday afternoon at Oscar Johnson Arena. Most games this low scoring can be nerve wracking. Few of them have ever been played like this. 

They don't keep records for this sort of thing. If they do, HU may have set one today, knocking out a dozen shorthanded situations to jump to 4-1-0 overall on the season. The Pipers took 14 citations in all and had to kill player disadvantages four times in each period. The Oles had their share of calls as well, going to the box eight times. 

With this many power plays going, the there was little time to get a flow going. As a result, HU was outshot by 4-2 in the first 20 minutes of play. Dani Wright's first goal -- with each team one player short -- 11:08 into the second period broke the ice and gave HU a 1-0 lead. Two minutes later, Bre Simon extended her league leading total in goals to six on a feed from Darby Dodds. Simon, a freshman, has scored in all five games HU has played this season. 

Juergens, also a freshman, did her part as well, kicking away 34 shots to lower her goals-against average to 1.62. It was her first college shutout and stretched the Pipers' overall winning streak to three games in a row. 

That will get tested on Tuesday, November 15 when the Pipers visit Wis-River Falls for a non-conference game. The Falcons are 4-0-0 overall and rated No. 2 in the country in the most recent USCHO.com poll. Game time is 7:00 p.m.