Box Score | Photos (Dawid Chabowski)
ST. CLOUD, Minn. – No. 10 Hamline scored three unanswered goals, including the game-winner with 1:06 left in regulation, to defeat Saint John’s 5-4 on Thursday, Feb. 4, in St. Cloud.
The Pipers (13-4-3, 8-2-1 MIAC) took an early 2-0 lead halfway thru the first period with goals 2:03 apart.
The Johnnies stormed back, however, with four consecutive goals to take a 4-2 lead.
Freshman Jascha Pettit (Wadena, Minn.) scored back-to-back goals 2:18 apart to tie the game at 2-2 in the first period. Fellow freshman Kevin Blackley (Plymouth, Minn.) tallied his first career assist on the second goal. Pettit’s first goal was unassisted.
Senior Gabriel Harren (Warroad, Minn.) lit the lamp on the power play at the 16:13 mark of the first period to give SJU a 3-2 lead. Freshman Joe Harren (Warroad, Minn.) and senior Chris Murray (Chanhassen, Minn.) assisted on the scoring play for SJU (6-10-4, 2-7-2 MIAC).
Joe Harren gave the Johnnies a two-goal cushion with a power-play goal of his own 8:27 into the second period, with assists going to his cousin Gabriel and Murray.
Hamline cut the deficit to 4-3 halfway thru the second period and then tied the contest at 4-4 at the 10:43 mark of the third. Brian Arrigoni, the reigning MIAC Co-Player of the Week with SJU’s Stu Van Ess (Kewaskum, Wis.), tallied the game-winning, power-play goal with just over a minute left. Van Ess made 24 saves in the loss.
SJU was 2-for-4 on the man advantage.
The Johnnies travel to face the Pipers in a return matchup Saturday, Feb. 6. The game is scheduled for 7:15 p.m. at the Drake Arena in St. Paul.