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Game Summary / GameDay Online

MOORHEAD, Minn. — The Saint Mary's University men's hockey team was held to half as many goals as it scored in Friday's first game of its Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference series against Concordia.

But when you score 14 goals on Friday, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The Cardinals, whose 14-goal outburst Friday was the most goals an SMU team has scored in nearly 20 years, picked up right where they left off Saturday, scoring the game's first six goals en route to a 7-2 victory over the Cobbers — and, more importantly, a key MIAC sweep.

"I was a little worried coming into today's game," admitted SMU coach Don Olson. "After last night, you don't know what kind of mind-set your team is going to have. Everything seemed to come  so easy (Friday), I was worried we wouldn't come out and work the way we needed to."

Mike Glaesmer (Traverse City, Mich.) and Jeff Miller (Portage, Mich.) gave Olson and the Cardinals a first-period boost, and Morgan Shepherd (Brainerd, Minn.) — who netted his first collegiate hat trick in Friday's win — David Gross (Grasston, Minn.), Kevin Eidsmo (Chanhassen, Minn.) and Deven VanHouse (Silver Bay, Minn.) — quickly turned that two-goal first-period lead into a six-goal, second-period advantage.

Concordia foiled goalie Dan Smith's (Rochester, Minn.) shutout bid with back-to-back goals less than two minutes apart midway through the third period, before Gross completed the scoring with his second of the game with less  than four minutes remaining in regulation.

"This was a great weekend for us," understated Olson, whose team has now won three straight and enters  the Christmas break with a 4-2-0 MIAC mark and a 4-5-0 overall record. "We got scoring from a lot of different players, and I thought we put together two soiid games  from start to finish.

"It's nice to have a break — hopefully, we'll be able to pick up right where we left off when we return after Christmas."