SAINT PAUL, MINN - The Hamline University men's hockey team welcomed in St. Scholastica for a Friday night conference game. It was a tight game the whole way through with both teams trading blows. The Saints had a big three goal second period that led them to victory. The Pipers made a great effort to comeback and tie the game in the third period but could not put one through. St. Scholastica came away with the 5-3 victory over the Pipers. 
 
Hamline falls to 6-10-2 on the season, 2-6-1 in MIAC play, while St. Scholastica improves to 13-4-1, 6-2-1- in conference. 
 
St. Scholastica 5, Hamline 3
 
It was an exciting and tense opening period this Friday night with a total of three goals and four power plays. The Saints started the scoring off at 16:48 with a goal from Carson Richels assisted by Kieren Chung and Danylo Sukhonos to make the score 1-0. The Pipers tied it up at 7:03 with a power play goal from forward Nikolai Dulak assisted by defenseman Kyle Mortenson to make the score 1-1. Closing out the period the Pipers had another power play chance and capitalized on it with a goal from forward Carson Simon assisted by center Bailey Sommers with only 23 seconds remaining. Sending the score 2-1 in favor of Hamline heading into the first intermission. Goalies Maximillian Hasselbacher for the Pipers and Jack Bolstedt for the Saints both recorded seven saves in the opening period. 
 
St. Scholastica controlled the second period by tallying three goals. At 14:57 Brodie Girod scored a power play goal to tie the game at 2-2. The Saints added another on at 11:13 from Nathan Adrian to take the lead, making the score 3-2 in favor of St. Scholastica. They ended the period with one more power play goal at 6:33 from Jacob Seitz to make the score 4-2 heading into the final intermission. Haselbacher for the Pipers recorded 13 more saves in the second while his counterpart Bostedt had 8. 
 
This was a back-and-forth defensive battle for the first half of the closing period. At 5:29 center Kohl Hedquist got the deficit to one with a goal assisted by Joe Collins and Jackson Wille to make the score 4-3 in Favor of the Saints. Hamline had a late game power play with two minutes remaining but could not capitalize to tie the game. St. Scholastica scores an empty net goal with 7 seconds left to make the final score 5-3. 
 
Hamline heads to Duluth tomorrow for the second half of the double header to play St. Scholastica at 7 p.m.