The St. Thomas women’s hockey team knew Friday was going to be a big-picture day as it prepared to host the Providence Friars in the inaugural event at Anderson Arena, St. Thomas’ new on-campus home for hockey and basketball.

Then the details took a little shine off a special day.

In a game that will be hard to top in terms of the number of twists and turns, the 13th-ranked Tommies rallied from a 5-2 deficit only to lose 7-6 before an announced crowd of 1,456.

“There are so many emotions, and excitement and gratitude that goes into opening a building like this,” Tommies head coach Bethany Brausen said. “Of course, you want to be on the winning side of that, and we talked about that after the game. It’s not the results we wanted, but I think it’s the information we needed about where our

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