UNIVERSITY PARK — The Wisconsin women’s ice hockey team survived Friday night against Penn State in the Frozen Four, as Kristin Simms scored two huge goals to get the Lady Badgers into the title game Sunday.

The senior forward deliver the game-trying and game-winning goals in the national championship game last season. On Friday night, she lifted the team to a 4-3 overtime win over Penn State at the Pegula Ice Arena.

Wisconsin will play Ohio State Sunday at 4:30 in the national title game. The Buckeyes shut out Northeastern in their semifinal matchup.

The game-winning goal for the Lady Badgers (34-4-2) came 50 seconds into the overtime period on a power play that was set up when Penn State’s Kendall Butze was tagged with a boarding penalty. Caroline Harvey got the assist.

The Lady Lions, who led 2-1 at the end of the first period, got two of their three goals from Tessa Janecki and a solo effort from Abby Stonehouse.

Penn State, which was out-shot 35-25, tied the game up on a Janecke goal that came at the 15:01 mark of the third period. Stonehouse scored her goal at the 7:53 mark of the first period to give Penn State a 2-1 advantage.

The Lady Lions finish up their season at 33-6-0.

Buckeyes roll

Ohio State scored four goals in the final 10 minutes of the first period, and the No. 1 overall seed Buckeyes beat fifth-seeded Northeastern 5-0 on Friday in the first of two semifinals Friday night at Pegula Ice Arena.

Ohio State (36-4-0), which set the program’s single-season wins record with 36, advanced to its fifth straight national title game to improve to 14-4 in the NCAA Tournament and 7-4 in the Frozen Four.

Northeastern (29-9-1) was making its fourth Frozen Four appearance in program history and first since 2023 when Ohio State defeated the Huskies 3-0. The Huskies dropped to 5-7-0 in the NCAA Tournament.

The Buckeyes will take on Wisconsin for the championship on Sunday.

Five different players scored for the Buckeyes and 10 players recorded a point.

Joy Dunne, a Patty Kazmaier top-10 finalist, scored on a rebound 10 minutes into the game for her 27th goal of the season. Then Kaia Malachino and Sanni Vanhanen scored a minute apart for a 3-0 lead.

Emma Peschel beat the first-period buzzer with a slap shot to make it 4-0 and Sara Swiderski sent a shot from the blue line that deflected into the goal in the third.

Hailey MacLeod recorded her fifth shutout this season with 15 saves — five coming in the first 10 minutes. She ended a breakaway chance five minutes in and finished the frame with eight saves.

Northeastern goaltender Lisa Jonsson made 37 saves.