The Falcon women’s hockey team got two goals from Lou Paulson and Lindsay O’Keefe and earned an 8-1 win over UW-Eau Claire in the NCHA tournament third place game played Sunday afternoon in Superior.

The Falcons, now 17-9-1, led 2-1 after one period and 3-1 after two.

UWRF took the lead for good at 1:59 of the first period. Lou Paulson scored her 13th goal of the year with an assist to Emily Nierenhausen. The Falcons grabbed a 2-0 lead at 6:16 when Lindsay O’Keefe scored her 13th goal of the year with an assist o Jodi Hensch. The Falcons went ahead 3-1 at 8:51 of the third period when Hensch scored a power-play goal. It was her sixth goal of the year and her fourth power-play goal of the season. She was assisted by Alison Schaber and O’Keefe.

The Falcons went ahead 4-1 at 1:33 of the third period when Kelly Hurley scored her 10th goal of the season with an assist to Schaber. At 11:22 the Falcons went ahead 5-1 when O’Keefe scored her second goal of the game and her 14th of the season. Jenny Wallace scored her first goal of the year, unassisted, at 15:54 to give UWRF a 6-1 lead. Paulson scored the team’s seventh goal at 17:57 with an assist to Hensch. It was Paulson’s second goal of the game and her 14th of the year. The Falcons ended the scoring with just one second to play when Lindsy Carlson scored her 11th of the year. She was assisted by Rachel Goodwin and Hensch.

Falcon goalie Marlene Yaeger made 13 saves and improved her record to 8-8-1. UWEC goalie Tara Berlute stopped 64 shots. The 64 saves is an NCHA playoff record.