Box Score Though St. Scholastica won the UMAC Tournament last season, they graduated more than three-fourths of their starters. Meanwhile, the 2006 regular season champion Presentation College Saints were voted the co-favorite in this year's preseason coaches poll.
On the road in Aberdeen, S.D., St. Scholastica wanted to make the rest of the conference know that they weren't going down without a fight.
Presentation drew first blood with a goal in the 10th minute of the game, the first time all season St. Scholastica has surrendered a first-half goal.
From that point on, it was the Cody Sveiven (Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids HS) and Toby Peter (Spalt, Germany/J.S. Bach Gymnasium) show for the Saints (4-1-1, 2-0-0 UMAC) as they scored four goals in succession to open up a 4-1 lead before Presentation (4-3-0, 1-1-0) could score again, and that was only on a penalty kick with less than two minutes remaining.
Sveiven evened things up in the first half at the 16:27 mark taking a feed from Dustin James (Superior, Wis./Superior HS) and scoring his fourth goal of the year. Less than six minutes later he took a pass from Andy Solin (Duluth, Minn./Duluth Central HS) and put the Saints up 2-1 with his team-leading fifth score of the season.
Peter scored the goal that may have broken Presentation's back, though, with an unassisted goal in the final seconds before the first half ended off a defensive deflection from a St. Scholastica corner kick that doubled the Saints lead sending one team to the locker room on a high note while the other suddenly found themselves down two goals instead of only one.
Presentation did their best to rally in the second half -- out shooting St. Scholastica 12 to three -- but were unable to solve senior keeper Adam Whitehead (Pickering, Ont./Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School) who made three saves on the four shots he faced in the half.
Late in the half Peter picked up his second of the game, this time assisted by Greg Doornink (Cottage Grove, Minn./Park HS), that put St. Scholastica up 4-1 and effectively iced the game for the visiting Saints.
Whitehead, one of the few returnees from last season's tournament champion squad, earned the win making six saves.
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