St. Cloud, Minn. --- The Minnesota State women's prevailed in a tight 1-0 shutout victory over St. Cloud State Friday afternoon at the National Hockey Center.

The Mavericks record improves to 3-4-2 (1-4-2-2 WCHA) after picking up their first conference win this season. This is the first shutout win against a WCHA opponent since March 1, 2014 when the Mavericks shutout Wisconsin 3-0 in the first round of the WCHA tournament.

The visiting Mavericks scored the lone goal and took the 1-0 lead and at the 16:53 mark in the first period with a man advantage. Junior forward Brittyn Fleming received the puck in the slot from sophomore blueliner Anna Wilgren behind the net and ripped a wrister to the low left corner of the net. The goal beat junior netminder Emma Polusny to her stick side and sophomore netminder Abigail Levy was also credited on an assist on the play.

Levy and the Maverick defense completed the third shutout of the season for MSU after shutting Rensselaer out twice with both of those games also being on the road. The Mavericks special teams killed off all four penalties the were taken and then converted on one of two chances on the power play. The Huskies outshot the Mavericks by a 30-26 margin throughout the game.

Sophomore Abigail Levy (2-2-1) made 30 saves in the shutout win and collected her second career assist.
 
The Mavericks will go for the series sweep over the Huskies tomorrow with the puck dropping at 2:07 p.m.