Game Summary

STEVENS POINT, Wis. — Ryan Stinson (Winona, Minn.) scored three times, but it wasn't enough as the Saint Mary's University hockey team let a 3-1 advantage slip through their fingers in losing 6-4 to UW-Stevens Point Saturday afternoon.

Stinson scored twice in the first period as SMU took a 2-1 lead into the locker room at the first intermission. Lenny Hofmann (Sartell, Minn.) — the hero of Friday's 7-6 come-from-behind win over UW-Eau Claire when he scored the game-winner with less than two minutes remaining — made it 3-1 four minutes into the second period, but the Pointers bounced back, scoring two times in a three-minute span midway through the second stanza to tie the game at three.

Stinson completed his hat trick at the 12:48 mark of the third period, erasing a short-lived, 4-3 Stevens Point advantege. The Pointers, however, scored two more times in the game's final 1:21 — the final tally an empy-netter at 19:07 — to seal the win.

Dan Byron (Edina, Minn.) finished with 24 saves for the Cardinals (8-5-1), while Stevens Point goalie Ryan Scott had 18 saves.