With a 10-0 career record against the University of North Dakota, the No. 5 Wisconsin women�s hockey team has never had much trouble with the Fighting Sioux before.

This weekend was no different.

UW (20-6-2, 16-4-2 WCHA) extended its winning streak to 10 games with a dominating sweep of UND during the weekend that honored the seniors. The Badgers scored 11 goals on the weekend � winning 6-1 Saturday and 5-2 Sunday � including a pair of hat tricks by sophomore Meghan Duggan and freshman Hilary Knight.

On Sunday, the Badgers took an early lead as Duggan scored in front of the net during a power play 1:40 into the game. Eight minutes later, Duggan found the back of the net for the second time when senior Jinelle Zaugg sent a pass through the crease that Duggan slapped past the goalie.

�I just got lucky today,� Duggan said. �The line played great. Zaugg set me up well on the second one, and the first one was a great shot by Angie [Keseley], and I was just standing there for the rebound, and I tried to crash the net.�

UND showed some fight, though, and pulled within one goal midway through the second period when Casie Hanson put one past UW�s Jessie Vetter.

After that goal, the game turned chippy as four penalties were called in a span of three minutes, three of which were on the Badgers.

�We are the least penalized team in the league, and we normally don�t take a lot of penalties,� head coach Mark Johnson said. �It is like anything, if you want to find something you can go find something to call.�

UW then took a 3-1 lead on one of the most bizarre plays of the season. North Dakota, which had a one-man advantage, pulled its goalie to create a six-on-four advantage in hopes of tying the game. Freshman Malee Windmeier then recovered the puck near the Badgers� blue line and fired a shot the length of the ice to score an empty-net goal, which proved to be the game-winner.

�I saw when I was in the box that they had pulled the goalie,� Windmeier said. �I was trying to just get it out of the zone, put it on net and see what happens.�

Wisconsin went on to score two more goals in the third period, as Duggan completed her hat trick, and Knight scored her 15th goal of the season.

�We have a ton of depth on this team,� Duggan said. �Honestly, we can play four lines, between the freshmen that have come in and stepped up big, and we have some big-time goal scorers. I think every week someone steps up and takes a big role, and that is good for us. We are balancing out who scores all the goals, and it is not one person who is carrying the whole team.�

North Dakota added another goal late in the third period to make the final score 5-2, as Vetter finished the game with 12 saves to record her 50th career victory.

On Saturday, the Badgers scored two goals within the first 10 minutes of the game and never looked back. Highlighting the 6-1 victory was Knight�s first career hat trick and four-point game.

�It felt great [to record a hat trick], especially because I am sick right now,� Knight said. �It was a nice way to wind down the game, and obviously I couldn�t have done it without my teammates, so credit them with great passing.�

Along with Knight�s hat trick, sophomore Kyla Sanders added two goals and an assist of her own.

�[Sanders] competed hard today,� Johnson said. �She set the tone with a nice wrist shot to get our first goal. She is a good skater, so when she can compete like she did today, then a lot of good things are going to happen.�

Despite the scoring outburst, however, Johnson was not willing to call this game the team�s best offensive game of the year.

�We talked about puck movement, getting into space and stretching things out,� Johnson said. �There were times where we were pretty good at it, and there were other times that we weren�t.�

The lone blemish for UW came 14:25 into the second period when UND�s Nikki Hebert was able to score while two Badgers were sitting in the penalty box. The Fighting Sioux, who already had a two-man advantage, pulled their goalie for a three-man advantage and were able to capitalize on the risk.

Keseley scored the other goal for UW in the third period, and Vetter finished with 16 saves.