Boston, Mass. – Behind a 37-save performance from 2009 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award recipient Jessie Vetter, Wisconsin was able to shut down the potent Mercyhurst offense and capture its third national championship in the past four years with a 5-0 victory over the Lakers Sunday afternoon in Boston, Mass. The Lakers, who end their season with a 31-6-0 record and the Women's Frozen Four second place trophy, outshot the Badgers, 37-32.

Making their first appearance in the championship game after disposing of second-seeded Minnesota 5-4 Friday evening, the Lakers skated even with the Badgers through the first 20 minutes of play.

Despite the overall effort in the opening frame, it would be two small windows in the second and third periods that would doom Mercyhurst. Wisconsin caught fire with three goals in a span of five minutes and 10 seconds in the second period and back-to-back markers two minutes and 12 seconds apart in the third.

Brooke Ammerman started the first run when she took a puck around the back of the net and slammed it home at the 5:28 mark. Meghan Duggan followed suit with a power-play goal at 8:48, while Angie Keseley increased the lead to three when she tapped in a tic-tac-toe pass on a 3-on-1 rush at 10:38.

The Badgers got the offense clicking again in the third, scoring on a lamp-lighter courtesy of Malee Windmeier at 3:26. Hilary Knight, the nation's leading scorer with 45 goals, put the finishing touches on the game with a quick one-timer from the right side of the cage at 5:38.

Freshman Hillary Pattenden stopped 27 saves, including several on quality scoring chances, to finish her rookie campaign at 24-3-0. Vetter, meanwhile, marked her 14th shutout of the season.

With their fifth-straight NCAA tournament run in the books, the Lakers will take some time off before preparing for the 2009-10 season. Head coach Michael Sisti returns a majority of his squad, including assistant captain Vicki Bendus, Jesse Scanzano, Bailey Bram, Jess Jones and Pattenden, but will lose the services of Valerie Chouinard, Hayley McMeekin, Courtney Drennen and Nicole Nelson due to graduation and captain Meghan Agosta who plans to take the season off in preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics. The Lakers marked their first 30-win season since 2006-07 and advanced to the NCAA Women's Frozen Four for the first time in school history.