SJU Earns Weekend Sweep of No. 12 Trine With 4-2 Win

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ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Saint John’s hockey accomplished the sequence sweep of No. 12 Trine (Ind.) with a 4-2 win on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 3, on the Municipal Athletic Complex (MAC).

The Johnnies (6-2-3, 3-1-2 MIAC) responded to a 2-1 deficit within the second interval with three-consecutive objectives, whereas senior goaltender Jon Howe (Chanhassen, Minn.) made a career-high 46 saves – 86 on the weekend – between the pipes.

Junior ahead Jackson Bisson (Edina, Minn.) acquired SJU rolling early within the recreation, tallying his fourth objective and tenth level of the season simply 1:02 after the primary puck drop. After junior ahead Jack Wandmacher (St. Louis Park, Minn.) and senior captain Mason Campbell (Rosemount, Minn.) broke the puck out of the zone, Bisson made house for himself earlier than rifling a shot on the Trine goaltender from the circle. His puck trickled by means of the arm of Ronnie Petrucci to place SJU forward early.

Keiton Klein evened the rating earlier than the top of the primary with a power-play objective on the 17:34 mark for a 1-1 impasse on the first intermission.

Trine (7-5-2, 4-2-2 NCHA) then put the Johnnies down 2-1 within the second interval for the second recreation in a row, as Brody Simko gave his staff its solely lead of the sport 6:28 after the break. 

Once once more, although, the Thunder have been met with junior ahead Logan Lyke (Medina, Minn.), who scored his third objective of the weekend to tie the sport at two apiece. Senior defenseman Conner Couet (St. Michael, Minn.) fed Lyke an extended go by means of the impartial zone, and the junior wheeled the sting of the zone earlier than roofing the puck for his sixth of the season.

Just over a minute later, freshman defenseman Cashen Naeve (Independence, Minn.) scored from the purpose off a Jordan Larkee (St. Paul, Minn.) faceoff win and Carter Krenke (Bloomington, Minn.) go from the half-wall. 

Saint John’s carried the 3-2 lead into the third interval and iced the cake with an empty netter from junior ahead Jackson Borst (Edina, Minn.) and an ideal interval from Howe to seal the victory.

Nine completely different Johnnies recorded a degree in Saturday’s outing, led by Campbell’s two assists. Howe has now made 40 or extra saves in 4 completely different wins this season, whereas his document in web improves to 6-1-3. The 46 saves are probably the most by a Johnnie goaltender in a recreation since Bailey Huber ’25 made 52 in a 1-1 tie at Utica (N.Y.) on Nov. 24, 2023.

The Johnnies host two extra non-conference video games subsequent week on the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, starting with a 7 p.m. puck-drop towards Beloit (Wis.) on Thursday, Jan. 8. SJU then faces Wisconsin-Superior at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 10.