LAKE FOREST, Ill. – The No. 15-ranked St. Olaf College men's hockey team completed a non-conference road sweep of Lake Forest College with a 3-2 victory on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.

Coming off a 7-4 victory the day before, St. Olaf (6-2-2) finished off the sweep of Lake Forest (3-6-1) by scoring once in each period to complete a weekend where the Oles scored in all six periods. Sophomore Adam Johnson, first year Hunter Hayes, and junior Tyler Green accounted for St. Olaf's three goals, while sophomore Matthew Malin recorded 36 saves in net.

After committing seven penalties on Saturday, Lake Forest was whistled for two more in the first 1:43 of the game, setting up St. Olaf with 1:21 of a 5-on-3 power play to start the game. The Oles converted with their fourth power-play goal of the weekend when Johnson fired a shot into the top shelf from the left circle at 2:25 of the first after getting the puck from sophomore Nicholas Sewecke.

St. Olaf dodged a bullet when Lake Forest missed the net on a shorthanded 2-on-0 rush midway through the period, but the hosts eventually tied the game at the first intermission on Chase Freiermuth's first goal of the afternoon at the 14:08 mark. Freiermuth's goal came as the trailer on a 3-on-2 rush.

Hayes netted the lone goal of the middle period just 2:50 in for the Oles, swatting the puck home from the top of the crease after Sewecke's shot caromed hard off the glass to Hayes, who scored for the second day in a row. Sewecke's two-assist performance gave him a five-point weekend with two goals and three assists.

St. Olaf killed off 48 seconds of 5-on-3 power-play time for Lake Forest midway through the second period to take the 2-1 lead into the third. Green gave the Oles an insurance goal at 11:43 of the third by tossing a backhand through the five hole for his fourth goal in six games this season. Green's goal proved important when Freiermuth got his second goal of the afternoon with 10.5 seconds remaining with the Foresters' net empty.

Malin made 14 saves in each of the first and third periods while moving to 2-0-1 on the season for St. Olaf with a 36-save performance. Luke Szyszka made 17 saves for Lake Forest, which was 0-for-6 on the power play in the loss.

The game was the final contest of 2025 for the Oles, who will match up with Bethel University in a non-conference game on Saturday, Jan. 3 at 5 p.m. at the National Sports Center in Blaine.