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With Warroad’s dreams of a girls hockey state championship four-peat on the line, No. 2-seeded Orono pushed the No. 3 Warriors to the brink, the teams tied 1-1 through nearly three hours of play.
Facing two Spartan defenders by herself, Lorenson carried the puck into Warroad’s offensive zone. She deked around one Spartan to set herself up at the edge of the right faceoff circle, where she lifted a sharp shot into the upper righthand corner of Orono’s net.
Warroad freshman hockey player Lindsey Lorenson, who scored the game-winner in triple overtime of the Class 1A girls hockey semifinals, accepts the Play of the Year award at the Star Tribune’s All-Minnesota Sports Awards event at the Viking Lakes turf plaza in Eagan, Minn., on Tuesday. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
“It wasn’t much,” Lorenson said, understatedly describing her sixth goal of the season. “I tried to skate the puck, and then I just threw it on net and it went in.”