NORTHFIELD, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's hockey team scored a pair of extra-attacker goals in the final two minutes to earn a 5-5 tie against visiting UW-Stevens Point on Saturday evening at St. Olaf Ice Arena.

UW-Stevens Point (2-1-3) scored three-straight goals to take a 4-2 lead at 7:53 of the third period and held a 5-3 lead with 3:35 remaining before St. Olaf (3-1-1) got late goals from sophomores Jonathan Young and Tyler Cooper to send the game to overtime. After neither team scored in the 3-on-3 extra session, the Pointers won the shootout, 2-1, in the fifth round.

Five Oles scored in the game, as Jonathan Panisa, sophomore Ethan Hersant, and junior Noah Heisler netted goals prior to the late tallies from Young and Cooper. Young added an assist to his goal, while sophomores Connor Kalthoff and Troy Bowditch had two assists apiece.

Hersant scored the first of the game's 10 goals at the 12:52 mark of the opening period before the teams traded goals late in the period to leave the Oles up 2-1 after 20 minutes. Sam Ayd tied the game at 1-1 with 1:18 remaining in the period before St. Olaf struck back on a delayed-penalty goal by Panisa with 27 seconds to go.

The Pointers killed off the remainder of the penalty early in the second and scored the only two goals of the period to take a 3-2 lead heading to the third, grabbing the lead on a power-play goal by Nicholas Aromatario with seven seconds on the clock. The visitors extended their lead just under eight minutes into the third period to take a two-goal lead at 4-2.

Heisler tallied his first goal of the season at 12:04 of the third to bring St. Olaf back within a goal, but UW-Stevens Point responded four minutes later to go back up a pair. The Pointers took the two-goal advantage into the final two minutes before Young scored an extra-attacker goal at the 18:02 mark and Cooper lit the lamp at 19:37 to send the game to overtime.

UW-Stevens Point held a 6-3 advantage in shots on goal in the overtime but neither team was able to find a goal despite having multiple quality scoring chances. In the shootout, Conor Witherspoon scored on UWSP's second attempt before Young knotted it at 1-1 in the third round. Poulias eventually won the shootout for the Pointers in the fifth round.

Shots on goal ended 33-24 in favor of UW-Stevens Point. Junior Lukas Haugen had 28 saves on the night for St. Olaf, while Alex Proctor made 19 stops for UWSP.

The Oles return to conference play with a series against Hamline University next weekend, starting with a 7 p.m. puck drop at St. Olaf Ice Arena on Friday, Nov. 18.