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Camden Benson - St. Norbert - 2023-10-27
Hannah Robb
3
St. Olaf STO 2-3-1
4
Winner Wis.-Stevens Point WSP 3-2-0
St. Olaf STO
2-3-1
3
Final
4
Wis.-Stevens Point WSP
3-2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 OT 1 F
St. Olaf STO 0 1 2 0 3
Wis.-Stevens Point WSP 2 1 0 1 4

Game Recap: Men's Hockey | | Michael Abdella - Assistant AD for Strategic Communications

Oles overcome 3-0 deficit, fall in OT at UW-Stevens Point

STEVENS POINT, Wis. – The St. Olaf College men's hockey team rallied from a 3-0 deficit to force overtime, but Evan Junker scored two minutes into overtime to give No. 13-ranked UW-Stevens Point a 4-3 victory over the Oles on Saturday night at K.B. Willett Arena.

UW-Stevens Point (3-2-0) built a 3-0 lead with two goals from Noah Finstrom in the first period and another from Gino Colangelo in the second before St. Olaf (2-3-1) battled back with three-straight goals to send the game to overtime. In the 3-on-3 extra session, the Pointers controlled the puck for almost the entire two minutes before Junker struck for the game-winning goal exactly two minutes in.

Finstrom scored power-play goals at 6:21 and 15:22 of the first period to give UW-Stevens Point a 2-0 lead at the fist intermission after the hosts outshot St. Olaf by a 15-3 margin in the opening 20 minutes. The Pointers continued to control play in the second period, outshooting the Oles by a 13-7 count, and stretched their lead to 3-0 on Colangelo's goal at the 11:41 mark.

Just 27 seconds after Colangelo's goal, first year Camden Benson tallied his first collegiate goal to get St. Olaf on the board, but UW-Stevens Point still led 3-1 after two. In the third, first year Tyler Green netted his first-career goal with St. Olaf shorthanded at the 2:54 mark to make it a one-goal game. Ten minutes later, senior Troy Bowditch tied the game with a power-play goal – his first goal of the season – at 13:48, with sophomore Kelijah McElroy earning his second assist of the game on the goal.

In his first start of the season, junior Thomas Lalonde helped the Oles get the game to overtime with three saves after Bowditch's tying goal and added two more stops in overtime before Junker's game-winner. Lalonde finished the night with 33 saves for St. Olaf, while Alex Proctor had 13 for UW-Stevens Point.

The Oles return to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) play against Hamline University next weekend, starting with a 7 p.m. puck drop at TRIA Rink in St. Paul on Friday, Nov. 17.
 
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