The rubber match goes to Edina. And with it an opportunity to compete for another state title.

Brenna Prellwitz scored an unlikely game-winning goal early in the third period, and the Hornets beat Minnetonka 3-2 late Friday in a Class 2A girls’ hockey semifinal at Xcel Energy Center.

Awaiting fourth-seeded Edina in Saturday’s 7 p.m. championship game is No. 2 Hill-Murray. The Pioneers, who beat Andover 3-1 in the other semifinal, topped Edina 2-1 early in the season.

Edina (23-6-1) won four of the five Class 2A titles between 2017-21.

There was little doubt the Lake Conference foes would be locked into a tight game. They split a pair of one-goal games in January: Edina winning 1-0 and Minnetonka earning a 3-2 victory.

Early in the third period, and less than two minutes after Minnetonka tied the game, Edina’s Whitney Horton carried the puck deep down the left side. Her shot from near the wall went off the stick of goaltender Layla Hemp; however, Prellwitz was racing down the slot and the puck deflected off her body and into the net. A lengthy video review upheld the goal.

Hemp finished with 33 saves, including a sprawling arm save to stymie Cate McCoy with five minutes to go.

Minnetonka nearly got the equalizer with just under a minute to play, but a shot from Lauren Goldsworthy went off the post.

Isabella Finnegan and Kendra Distad scored for Minnetonka (26-3-1), looking for its first title since winning three in a row from 2011-13.

Second-period goals by Lorelai Nelson and McCoy gave the Hornets a 2-0 lead, but Finnegan, split a defenders’ legs, regathered the puck and scored on a high wrister 26 seconds after the McCoy tally. Distad tied the game early in the third period.

Edina goaltender Reese McConnell stopped 21 shots.