St. Scholastica (4-6-2, 2-3-1 NCHA) played perhaps their most complete game of the season Saturday night in defeating visiting UW-Stevens Point (6-5-0, 2-4-0 NCHA) by a 5-0 score at Mars Lakeview Arena.

 

In front of a crowd approaching 400, the Saints got stellar goaltending, offensive points from 11 different players, and efficient play from a penalty killing unit that held the Pointers to an 0-for-9 night, twice when the visitors had a two-man advantage.

 

The team's most red-hot offensive threat, Jordan Chong (North Vancouver, British Columbia/Dryden (SIJHL)), opened the scoring with a goal 14:29 into the first period off an assist from Ben Fearing (Coleraine, Minn/Greenway HS). Of the Saints past seven goals, Chong has scored five of them.

 

That goal would prove to be the only one netminder Steve Bounds (Airdrie, Alberta/Powell River (BCHL)) would need on the night as he turned away all 24 shots in earning the shutout, including nine that were on power play opportunities. The win was the first time all season the Saints have kept an opponent off the scoreboard.

 

Still a tight game after Chong's lone goal in the first and teammate Shawn Bartlette (East Grand Forks, Minn./Bismark (NAHL))'s score in the second, the Saints broke the game open in the third with three goals, two from Joey Martini (Calgary, Alberta/Canmore (AJHL)) sandwiched around a Trevor Geiger (Salmon Arm, British Columbia/Salmon Arm (BCHL)) score.

 

Fearing ended the night with a pair of assists, while Kelly Reynolds (Parksville, British Columbia/Cowichan Valley (BCHL)), Simren Sandhu (Calgary, Alta./Calgary Canucks), Kyle Luschinski (Headingley, Manitoba/Waywayseecappo (MJHL)), Matt Stengl (East Grand Forks, Minn./Selkirk (MJHL)), and Jameson Lundquist (Superior, Wis./Fairbanks (NAHL)) each had one assist apiece.

 

Fighting off so many power play opportunities throughout the night, the Saints weren't without their own man-advantage chances. They had five on the night with Martini's second score in the third coming on the power play.

 

Both teams entered the Saturday night contest off distinctly different nights in their previous games. The Saints dropped a home win to UW-Eau Claire which moved the Blugolds ahead of St. Scholastica into sixth place in the NCHA standings. Conversely, Stevens Point knocked off UW-Superior by a 4-1 score to pick up an important road win that pulled them within a point of the fourth place Yellowjackets in the conference standings.