Box Score

In a game in which the Saints lost a two-goal lead by surrendering four unanswered goals, St. Scholastica was still only a poke of the puck away from at least a tie in regulation play Saturday night at Mars Lakeview Arena against visiting UW-Stout.

A.J. Tucker scored a power play goal 87 seconds into the game to put the Saints ahead of the No. 5 Blue Devils before either team had broken much of a sweat.

Late in the period Matt Stengl (East Grand Forks, Minn./Selkirk (MJHL)) scored his first of the year to give the Saints that two-goal lead.

Stout roared out to begin the second period though, scoreing 1:01 into the period and again at 3:20 to even the score. Their second goal was the first of three consecutive power play scores to vault past the Saints to a 4-2 lead over their hosts.

Tucker struck again in the final stanza's opening minutes, pulling his team to within one with almost 18 minutes left to play.

Four minutes later, though, Stout upped the margin to two again with an even strength goal.

Now it was Trevor Geiger (Salmon Arm, British Columbia/Salmon Arm (BCHL))'s turn to inch the Saints closer as he scored his second of the year at 8:41, once again pulling CSS to within a goal of the nationally ranked Blue Devils.

But again Stout answered back with a Jeff Wheeler goal in the 17th minute, stretching their lead to two with only 3:46 to play.

The pesky Saints wouldn't go quietly, though, as freshman Simren Sandhu (Calgary, Alta./Calgary Canucks) scored, his first collegiate goal, at the 18:38 mark to pull the Saints to within one at 6-5.

Goalie Tyler Johnson (East Grand Forks, Minn./East Grand Forks HS) skated off the ice with 1:06 remaining to give the Saints an extra attacker and the team responded with a good crack at Stout netminder Matt Koenig but the Blue Devils survived the scare and cleared the puck down ice two more times over the remaining seconds to capture thieir first NCHA win of the season.

Johnson finished with 24 saves while Koenig had 32 for the Blue Devils.

The win improved Stout to 8-1-0 overall and evened their NCHA mark at 1-1-0. St. Scholastica drops to 2-4-1 and 0-2-0 with the loss.

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