The top seeded and top ranked Edina Hornets got a three goal third period that included the game winner from Lolita Fidler with 12:51 left to play that led them to a 4-1 win over the Farmington Tigers in the Class AA girls hockey quarterfinals Thursday night at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.
Neither team scored in the first period, though the Hornets kept Tiger goalie Abby Bollig busy with 16 shots on goal to Farmington's five.
Edina broke the scoreless tie in the second period when Olivia Kolberg got a pass from Fidler near the left boards, cut to the center slot and scored. Farmington would tie the game while Edina goalie Anna Goldstein was playing a bit far out of the net and Ellie Moser fired a shot into the open net.
It would be all Edina in the third period that would clinch a semifinal berth for first year head coach Sami Reber. Fidler would score on a right side rebound to put the Hornets in front. Then Brooke Tucker passed to Emily Oden and she went long the right boards and took a shot, with Bollig on the save and Oden rebounding the puck from the center slot toward the net. Sophie Slattery wrapped up the scoring as she rebounded a shot from the right side of the crease and into the net.
The Hornets out shot the Tigers 53-16.
Edina improved their record to 26-1-1 and will play the winner of the Forest Lake-Eden Prairie game in the semifinals Friday, February 24 at 8 PM at the Xcel Energy Center. Farmington fell to 16-12-1 and will play in the consolation semifinals also on the 24th at noon at Ridder Arena on the University of Minnesota campus.
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