St. John’s goalie Saxton Soley picked up his 40th career win last weekend (photo: St. John’s Athletics).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMIAC<\/strong><\/p>\nSt. John’s couldn’t have picked a better time to win its first two games of the season. The Johnnies stunned No. 14 Hamline win a weekend sweep. Matt Colford came through with the game-winner with 3:17 remaining to propel St. John’s to a 4-3 win on Saturday. The goal was the second of the year for Colford. He also tallied his first collegiate assist on a goal by Neal Smith. Saxton Soley racked up 37 saves and earned the 40th win of his career. He is now 40-24-8 overall in his time with the Johnnies. Huba Sekesi and Tyler Dunagan also scored for the Johnnies, who are 2-4-2 overall and 2-2 in the MIAC. St. John’s opened the series with a 2-1 win Thursday thanks to Dunagan scoring with 30 seconds remaining in regulation. Sekesi also scored … St. Mary’s took advantage of strong play by the Heinle brothers to secure a 3-1 win over St. Olaf Saturday. Jay Heinle scored twice and Phil Heinle made 18 saves as the Cardinals improved to 4-2-2 overall and 3-0-1 in the league. The Cardinals, in first place with 10 points, missed out on an opportunity to sweep the series when St. Olaf rallied to forge a 4-4 tie on Friday. St. Mary’s led 3-1 after one period in that game but couldn’t hold on for the victory. Bob Kinne, Martin Gruse and Chad Cesarz all scored first-period goals to give St. Mary’s an early advantage. The goal for Kinne was his fifth of the year. Connor Quinn’s goal off a power play tied the game at 4-4 for St. Olaf. Gordon Wells also scored a power play goal for the Oles.<\/p>\n
NCHA<\/strong><\/p>\nEighth-ranked St. Norbert completed a successful trip to Wisconsin with a 5-2 win over the second-ranked Pointers Saturday night. The Green Knights began the trip with a 4-0 win over Superior on Friday. The Pointers, the 2014 national runner-up, came into the game unbeaten but were held to a season-low two goals. They fell to 6-1-1 on the season. The Green Knights are now 7-1. Ross Pavek and Riley Christensen both scored in the opening period and Roman Uchyn added a goal in the second period. Blake Thompson gave St. Norbert a 4-0 lead. Noah Nelson scored the other goal for the Green Knights, who have won their last six games. Jacob Barber and Lawrence Cornellier both scored for the Pointers … The Milwaukee School of Engineering pulled off an upset of No. 13 River Falls Saturday. Brandon Unser and Cole Larson both scored goals for the raiders, who pushed their record to 3-3 on the year. MSOE trailed 1-0 in the opening period before rallying for their second win over a ranked team this season. Nick Kohn tallied 24 saves and owns a 1.71 GAA. This was the seventh meeting between the Raiders and Falcons and the first time MSOE has a won a game in the series. MSOE won three of its five games in November and won’t play again until Dec. 8 when it travels to Stout … Lake Forest stunned Wisconsin-River Falls 3-2 in overtime Friday night behind Jimmy Cusan’s goal 3:25 into the OT period. It was the first goal of the year for Cusan. The Foresters trailed 2-0 before John Gugent and Charlie Izaguirre both scored in the third period to tie the score and force the extra session. Billy Cooper started in goal for the Foresters and made 42 saves, one shy of his career high. Lake Forest is 2-4 on the season.<\/p>\n
WIAC<\/strong><\/p>\nSixth-ranked Wisconsin-Eau Claire had mixed results over the weekend as it lost 2-1 to Concordia (Wis.) Friday before bouncing back with a 5-1 win over Lake Forest Saturday. Against the Foresters, the Blugolds took advantage of a big night by Adam Knochenmus, who scored twice in the victory. Knochenmus has tallied a team-best nine goals on the season. He also leads the team in points this year with 12. Garret Clemment scored a goal and also dished out an assist. Patrick Moore also tallied one goal and one assist. Jay Deo stopped 27 shots and improved to 3-0-1. The Blugolds are 5-1-2 on the year. Eau Claire suffered its first loss on Friday as it fell 2-1 to Concordia. Connor Hogg and Eli Riddle gave the Falcons an early 2-0 lead. Moore scored the lone goal for the Blugolds. Although the Blugolds lost, they continue to play well in penalty kill situations. They killed off all four of the Falcons’ opportunities and own a 93.1 penalty kill percentage on the season. Tyler Green started in goal and made 21 saves as he pushed his record to 2-1-1 on the year … Wisconsin-Stout picked up a 5-2 win over Concordia (Minn.) Saturday behind a stellar performance from Tyler Cayemberg, who came through with the first hat trick of his collegiate career to pace the Blue Devils to their third win of the season. Two of his goals were scored on the power play. Riley Colvard and Danny Ray also scored goals for Stout, which improved to 3-2-2. Chase Hollander earned his first win of the year in goal, coming in for the injured Spencer Viele. He made 20 saves. Stout won’t play again until Dec. 3 when it welcomes Eau Claire to town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The first few weeks have found some teams off to a fast start and still others finding themselves. Now everybody is in the full swing of season play, including the defending national champions from Trinity, along with the rest of the NESCAC. A few upsets, a few statement games and now fewer unbeatens after this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":96902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1469,1470],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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