BEMIDJI, Minn. - The Wayne State University women's hockey team (3-3-2) scored three goals in the third period on its way to a 6-1 victory at Bemidji State University (2-7-1) on Saturday afternoon, splitting the weekend series.

Katrina Protopapas (Chatham, Ont./Bluewater Hawks) recorded her second multiple-goal game of the season with a pair of power-play tallies, and Alyssa Baldin (Mississauga, Ont./Mississauga Jr. Chiefs) added one in the third as the Warriors went 3-for-5 on their power-play opportunities.

Wayne State, which had not scored in the opening period all season, lit the lamp twice in the first on Saturday.  Julie Ingratta (Markham, Ont./North American Hockey Academy) gave the Warriors a 1-0 lead at 2:09 and, after BSU's Franny Dorr tied it up at 6:15, Micheline Frappier's (Val Caron, Ont./Sudbury Lady Wolves) first goal of the season - which proved to be the game-winner - made it a 2-1 game three minutes later from Baldin and Jenaya Townsend (Sherwood Park, Alb./Sherwood Park Kings).

Protopapas' first goal of the night came midway through the second period with assists from Gina Buquet (Lafayette, La./Ohio Flames) and Chelsea Burnett (Ridgeway, Ont./Stoney Creek Sabres), who notched her first point of the year.

The Warriors put the game out of reach in the third, as Baldin's goal from Veronique Laramee-Paquette (Mont-Tremblant, Que./Les Cheminots) and Julie Hebert (Chelmsford, Ont./Aurora Jr. Panthers) at 5:41 gave WSU a 4-1 lead.  Lauren Ragen's (Grosse Ile, Mich./Connecticut Polar Bears) first goal of the year from Ingratta at 12:03 made it 5-1, and Protopapas capped off the scoring with 12 seconds left, assisted by Townsend and Jill Szandzik (Warren, Mich./Little Caesars).

Lindsey Park (Thornhill, Ont./Toronto Jr. Aeros) made 31 saves and earned her first win of the year.

Wayne State returns home next weekend, Nov. 6-7, to host top-ranked Mercyhurst in the first College Hockey America series of the season.  The series opener is also Skate for the Cure Night, continuing the CHA's initiative to raise funds and awareness for breast cancer research.

NOTES
Protopapas moved into a tie with Ashley King (2004-08) for 10th place on Wayne State's all-time career goals list (18) ... she is also third all-time in power-play goals (10) and eighth in power-play points (18) ... WSU is 4-16-2 against Bemidji State.