The No. 3 Minnesota women’s hockey team scored five goals, while the Gopher men allowed five goals to No. 1 Michigan in a night of split results on the rink.

Gophers women top Bemidji State

A 5-3 win at Bemidji State improved the Minnesota women’s record to 18-4 overall on the season as the Gophers took a 5-0 lead through two periods before allowing their host a trio of scores in the final frame.

Abbey Murphy put the visitors in the lead for good with a goal at 15:10 of the first period, an advantage that was doubled just 14 seconds later by Ava Lindsay as Minnesota took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission.

The onslaught continued in the second period, with Kendra Distad scoring at 10:20, followed by an Annabella Fanale goal at 11:08, and one final tally by Sydney Morrow on the power play at 17:27.

Bemidji State had a mini uprising in the third period, but it wasn’t enough as Gopher goaltender Hannah Clark made 16 saves in the victory.

With the win, Minnesota remained solidly in third place in the WCHA with a 13-4 record in conference play, one game behind second-place Ohio State (14-3) and circuit leader Wisconsin (14-1-2).

The Gophers and Beavers play against at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in a game televised on BTN+.

Wolverines roll Gophers men

It was a different story back in Minneapolis, where the nation’s top-ranked team, Michigan, turned a close game into a 5-1 blowout at 3M Arena at Mariucci.

The Wolverines and Gophers were tied at 1-all after the first period as Tanner Ludtke‘s goal at 18:33 countered Michigan’s opening tally at 5:14.

However, it was all Michigan from there as the visitors scored two goals 20 seconds apart midway through the second period and then added two more in the third to skate away with the four-goal triumph despite 47 saves from Gophers goaltender Luca Di Pasquo, while his teammates put just 18 shots on net in the contest.

The Wolverines improved to a Big Ten-best 19-4 overall and 10-3 in conference play. Minnesota fell to 8-13-1 overall and just 4-7 in the circuit.

The conference rivals meet once again at 6 p.m. Saturday at Mariucci, with the game televised by both Fox 9+ and BTN+.

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Kendall Coyne Schofield scored the game winner just 52 seconds into overtime as the Minnesota Frost claimed a 3-2 win over the New York Sirens in Newark, N.J. Friday evening.

The Frost never trailed in the contest, but couldn’t shake the hosts either.

Britta Curl-Salemme continued her splendid campaign by scoring the opening goal of the game at 8:55 of the opening period. The lead didn’t last, as New York knotted the score at 1-all on a Casey O’Brien goal at 16:24.

It took just 35 seconds into the second period for the Frost to go back on top with a goal by Kelly Pannek. Once again, the Sirens battled back to tie the contest on a Taylor Girard tally at 4:04.

The score remained 2-2 from there through the remainder of the second and all of the third period until Coyne Schofield ended it in the first minute of the added stanza.

Coyne Schofield, Taylor Heise, and Grace Zumwinkle logged assists on a 13-shot night for Minnesota, while goaltender Nicole Hensley made 10 saves to secure the victory.

The win was Minnesota’s second in a row, and moved the Frost two points ahead of Montreal for second place in the PWHL with 21 points (5-2-2-3). Boston continues to lead the league with 26 points (8-0-2-2).

Minnesota hosts Montreal next, with a puck drop scheduled for 7 p.m. Wednesday at Grand Casino Arena.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officers in the Minneapolis-area participating in its largest recent U.S. immigration enforcement operation can’t detain or tear gas peaceful protesters, including people observing the agents, a judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez ruled in a case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists.

Thousands of people have been observing the activities of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol officers enforcing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since early December.

The ruling prohibits the officers from detaining drivers and passengers in vehicles when there is no reasonable suspicion they are obstructing or interfering with the officers.

Safely following agents “at an appropriate distance does not, by itself, create reasonable suspicion to justify a vehicle stop,” the ruling said.

Menendez said the agents would not be allowed to arrest people without probable cause or reasonable suspicion the person has committed a crime or was obstructing or interfering with the activities of officers.

The activists in the case are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota, which says government officers are violating the constitutional rights of Twin Cities residents.

Government attorneys argued that the officers have been acting within their legal authority to enforce immigration laws and protect themselves.

Menendez is also presiding over a lawsuit filed Monday by the state of Minnesota and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul seeking to suspend the enforcement crackdown, and some of the legal issues are similar. She declined at a hearing Wednesday to grant the state’s request for an immediate temporary restraining order in that case.

“What we need most of all right now is a pause. The temperature needs to be lowered,” state Assistant Attorney General Brian Carter told her.

Menendez said the issues raised by the state and cities in that case are “enormously important.” But she said it raises high-level constitutional and other legal issues, and for some of those issues there are few on-point precedents. So she ordered both sides to file more briefs next week.

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By WILL WEISSERT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump issued a flurry of pardons in recent days, including for the father of a large donor to his super PAC, a former governor of Puerto Rico and a woman whose sentence he commuted during his first term but who ended up back in prison for a different scheme.

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Trump commuted the sentence of Adriana Camberos just before his first stint in the White House ended in 2021. That followed her being convicted as part of an effort to divert 5-Hour Energy drink bottles acquired for resale in Mexico and instead keep them in the U.S. Prosecutors said she and several co-conspirators attached counterfeit labels and filled the bottles with a phony liquid before selling them.

In 2024, she and her brother, Andres, were convicted in a separate case, this one involving lying to manufacturers to sell wholesale groceries and additional items at big discounts after pledging that they were meant for sale in Mexico or to prisoners or rehabilitation facilities. The siblings sold the products at higher prices to U.S. distributors, prosecutors said.

The Camberoses were among 13 pardons Trump issued Thursday, along with eight commutations. An additional pardon was announced Friday for Terren Peizer, a resident of Puerto Rico and California who headed the Miami-based health care company Ontrak.

Peizer had been convicted and sentenced to 42 months in prison, and fined $5.25 million, for engaging in an insider trading scheme to avoid losses exceeding $12.5 million, according to the Justice Department.

The president has issued a number of clemencies during the first year of his second term, many targeted at criminal cases once touted by federal prosecutors. They’ve come amid a continuing Trump administration effort to erode public integrity guardrails — including the firing of the Justice Department’s pardon attorney.

Also pardoned this week was former Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez, who had pleaded guilty last August to a campaign finance violation in a federal case that authorities say also involved a former FBI agent and a Venezuelan banker. Her sentencing had been set for later this month.

Federal prosecutors had been seeking one year behind bars, something Vázquez’s attorneys opposed as they accused prosecutors of violating a guilty plea deal reached last year that saw previous charges including bribery and fraud dropped.

They had noted that Vázquez had agreed to plead guilty to accepting a promise of a campaign contribution that was never received.

Also involved in the case was banker Julio Herrera Velutini, whose daughter, Isabela Herrera, donated $2.5 million to Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC in 2024, and gave the group an additional $1 million last summer. The case’s third defendant was former FBI agent Mark Rossini, who was also pardoned by the president.

The recent wave of clemencies joins previous Trump pardons of Democratic former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Republican ex-Connecticut Gov. John Rowland, whose promising political career was upended by a corruption scandal and two federal prison stints.

Trump also pardoned former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a New York Republican who resigned from Congress after a tax fraud conviction and made headlines for threatening to throw a reporter off a Capitol balcony over a question he didn’t like. Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who had been convicted of cheating banks and evading taxes, also got Trump pardons.

The president also pardoned Texas Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar in a bribery and conspiracy case. He later expressed regret and frustration for having done so, however, when Cuellar announced he was seeking reelection without switching parties to become a Republican.