DULUTH, Minn. – The St. Olaf College men's hockey team completed its second consecutive Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) sweep with a 3-1 road victory over the College of St. Scholastica on Saturday evening at Mars Lakeview Arena.

After a 5-4 home win the night before, St. Olaf (11-7-3, 6-5-1 MIAC) finished off another six-point weekend and moved up to third in the conference standings by defeating St. Scholastica (11-11-1, 6-8-0 MIAC) with one goal in each period. With the victory, the Oles moved all the way up to third in the tightly-congested MIAC standings, as six teams are separated by four points in spots 2-7 in the standings with two weekends remaining.

Junior Jonathan Panisa completed a five-point weekend by scoring the game-winning goal in the second period and adding an assist, while senior Jonathan Young and sophomore Tony Leahy accounted for the Oles' other two goals. Senior Thomas Lalonde stopped 28 of the 29 shots he faced and became the 21st goaltender to reach 1,000 career saves in the win.

Young gave St. Olaf the game's opening goal midway through the first period with a wrist shot from the right circle for his eighth goal of the season. Junior Gunnar Johnson picked up his second assist of the weekend and his ninth of the season on the goal. Tristan Shewchuk pulled St. Scholastica even at a goal apiece five minutes later, as the two teams headed to the first intermission tied.

Just 56 seconds into the second period, Panisa tallied his team-leading 11th goal of the season by scoring with a stick-side shot from the left circle after senior Ben Luscko got the puck to Panisa. Eight of Panisa's 11 goals this season have come in MIAC play, a total that is just one shy of the most in the conference.

St. Olaf killed off four minor penalties in the second period, including one that carried over into the third, to preserve its one-goal lead. Leahy gave the Oles an insurance goal at 7:19 of the third with his second goal of the weekend, banging in a rebound off a shot by Panisa after Panisa forced a turnover in the neutral zone.

Next weekend, the Oles will match up with Saint Mary's University, beginning with a 7 p.m. puck drop at St. Olaf Ice Arena on Friday, Feb. 14.