Boston College’s men’s hockey team got firsts from three different players on Saturday night, but St. Cloud State’s early surge was too much to overcome in a 5-3 loss at Kelley Rink.
The No. 16/15 Eagles dropped to 1-2-0, while the Huskies improved to 2-3-0.
Boston College got first collegiate goals from Teddy Mutryn, Carson Woodall and Matias Vanhanen, and Olivers Murnieks picked up his first collegiate point with an assist. In net, Leo Henriquez made his first collegiate start and stopped 20 shots.
St. Cloud State controlled the opening stretch and built a 2-0 lead before the first intermission, scoring midway through the period and then again at 19:30.8. The Huskies added a power-play goal early in the second to stretch the margin to 3-0.
BC finally broke through at 9:56 of the second when Mutryn redirected a shot for his first college goal. The play started with Murnieks winning a faceoff in the offensive zone before the puck reached Luka Radivojevic, who sent it toward the net for Mutryn to finish.
The response from St. Cloud State came quickly. Less than 30 seconds later, the Huskies restored their three-goal cushion and took a 4-1 lead into the third period.
Boston College kept pushing in the final frame, but St. Cloud State opened the period with another goal to make it 5-1.
The Eagles then put together a late charge. Woodall scored just after the halfway point of the third, and Vanhanen followed at 18:05 with a power-play goal while BC had the extra attacker to trim the deficit to two.
That was as close as the Eagles would get. St. Cloud State shut things down over the final two minutes to seal the win.
Scoring came from Jake Southgate and Darels Uljanskis in the first period for the Huskies, followed by Finn McLaughlin’s power-play goal in the second. Nolan Roed added St. Cloud State’s fifth in the third, while BC’s late push came from Woodall and Vanhanen after Mutryn’s earlier tally.
Scoring 1st 8:31 SCSU Jake Southgate (Charlie Lurie)
1st 19:30.8 SCSU Darels Uljanskis (Gavyn Thoreson, Nolan Roed)
2nd 5:52 SCSU Finn McLaughlin (Noah Urness, Gavyn Thoreson) - PPG
2nd 9:56 BC Teddy Mutryn (Luka Radivojevic, Olivers Murnieks)
2nd 10:18 SCSU Thor Byfuglien (Jamison Sluys, Aiden Welch)
3rd 8:22 SCSU Nolan Roed (Darels Uljanskis, Jacob Napier)
3rd 11:25 BC Carson Woodall (Oscar Hemming, Dean Letourneau)
3rd 18:05 BC Matias Vanhanen (Dean Letourneau, Luka Radivojevic) - PPG, EA
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