LAKE PLACID — The U.S. Collegiate and Under-18 women’s select teams closed out their respective series against Canada Saturday by splitting the final matchup. The U18 team earned a 3-1 victory, and the collegiate squad fell 7-6 in a shootout.

With the victory, the U.S. won the Under-18 Select Series for the first time since 2017. Despite Saturday’s loss, the U.S. collegiate squad recorded its sixth-straight series win with wins on Wednesday and Thursday.

In the collegiate contest Saturday, Maggie Scannell gave the U.S. an early advantage when she scored just 47 seconds into the game. However, Canada answered with two straight goals from Madeline Palumbo and Emmalee Pais to take a 2-1 lead.

Canada added two goals in the second to open a 4-1 lead on the afternoon. Eloise Caron scored the third goal of the game in before Claire Murdoch added another.

Later in the second period, Cassie Hall buried a 5-on-3 power play goal from the right faceoff dot to make the score 4-2.

But around eight minutes into the third period, Laney Potter scored Team USA’s third of the game, before Kelly Gorbatenko evened the contest with a power play goal.

MaryKate O’Brien gave the U.S. a 5-4 lead with 8:37 left in the third frame, the team’s fourth unanswered score, sliding a shot five-hole. With time ticking down, Canada’s Jocelyn Amos recorded a power play goal to knot the game at 5-5.

Jamie Nelson tallied the U.S.’ sixth of the game, but Canada once again answered with 1:41 left on the clock.

After a scoreless overtime frame, Canada won the shootout, 3-2, in six rounds to give them the victory. Team USA’s Jojo Chobak had 25 saves, while Canada’s Hailey MacLeod had 26 stops.

In the U18 contest, Canada opened the game by scoring almost four minutes in when Rosalie Tremblay shot over the glove of U.S. goalie Bianca Birrittieri.

Team USA responded just a few minutes later when Talla Hansen capitalized on a 2-on-1 feed from Lindsay Stepnowski to knot the game at 1-1.

Annabelle Lovell gave the U.S. a 2-1 lead in the second period after corralling her own rebound off a point-blank shot from the low slot, before rifling one past Canada’s goalie Rowan Houweling from the exact same spot.

Alaina Gnetz closed out the scoring for the U.S. at the midway point of the third period, when she slipped a shot past the goalie’s side right off the left post.

Birrittieri made 21 saves in the winning effort in net. Houweling had 17 saves for Canada.