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Game Summary / GameDay Online

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — In 2005, St. Olaf handed the Saint Mary's University men's hockey team back-to-back 3-2 losses.

A year later, the Cardinals returned the favor — literally —  beating the Oles by those same identical 3-2 scores.

And last year, it was the Oles' turn again, as St. Olaf swept the Cardinals 3-2 and 4-3.

Six games, six one-goal decisions, and three sweeps.

See a pattern forming?

Heading into Friday's Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Colnference game against the Oles, SMU head coach Don Olson was hoping the trend pattern would continue — after all, if it did, it would be the Cardinals' year go come away with two one-goal wins.

Someone forgot to tell the Oles that, however,

St. Olaf score five unanswered goals, erasing a 2-0 first-period SMU lead and handing the Cardinals a 5-2 MIAC setback.

"We played very well in the period, but then (St. Olaf) came out and picked up the tempo a bit and we didn't respond," said Olson. "We just didn't match their intensity after the first period."

Jeff Miller (Portage, Mich.) and Morgan Shepherd (Brainerd Minn.) got the Cardinals off to a quick 2-0 first-period lead, but from there, it was all St. Olaf, as the Oles scored three times in the second and twice more in the third to ice the victory.

"It's disappointing, because it really wasn't a 5-2 type of game," said Olson. "We came out with so much fire in that first period, and when (St. Olaf) came back to took the 3-2 lead (after two periods), we just didn't respond the way we needed to."