Alex Woken scored two goals and Nicole Schammel one — all in the first six minutes of the game — as the No. 6 Gophers women's hockey team defeated St. Cloud State 3-0 on Friday night at Ridder Arena.

It was Minnesota's 35th win in a row in the series, dating to October 2010. The Gophers lead in the all-time series 77-3-2.

"Good effort here tonight. Certainly was great to get out to a three-goal lead there," Gophers coach Brad Frost said. "Came out with some real good energy in the first and we were able to sustain that through the game."

Woken, a sophomore forward from Fargo, N.D., scored her first goal at 1:49 of the opening period and her second on a power play at 5:26. She has four goals this season.

In between, Schammel, a junior forward from Red Wing, got her seventh goal, tying her for the team lead with freshman forward Grace Zumwinkle.

The Gophers (10-4-1, 7-3-1 WCHA) outshot the Huskies (2-11, 1-7) by a big margin, 36-14. St. Cloud State has lost six games in a row.

Minnesota was 1-for-4 on the power play; St. Cloud State never had a man advantage.

Senior Sidney Peters, who has a 2.01 goals-against average and a .916 save percentage, made 14 saves for the shutout. The Huskies have been struggling to score goals. This was the eighth time this season that they was shut out.

SCSU goalie Janine Alder stopped 33 shots.

"This was our first shutout of the year. Defensively I think we played very sound," Frost said, "kept everything to the outside, some real good sticks, blocking shots to keep it zero.

"[I'm] happy for Sid and our team, but I also know for the last 50 minutes it was a 0-0 hockey game, so we are expecting a real battle again here tomorrow."