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Saint Mary's Cardinals   1-11-1Overall		UW-River Falls Falcons   8-8-1 Overall

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Last Action: Last Action: The Cardinals saw their losing streak climb to five straight Saturday, as SMU dropped a 12-2 decision to seventh-ranked UW-Stout Tuesday at the SMU Ice Arena. … UW-River Falls, meanwhile, had its five-game winning streak snapped Friday, falling to UW-Stout 3-2.

A Year Ago: UW-River Falls, ranked No. 1 in the USCHO.com poll at the time, scored three times in the third period — the last time with 24 seconds remaining in regulation — as the Falcons escaped with a 4-4 nonconference tie against the Cardinals on Nov. 20.

Cardinal Notes: With their loss to UW-Stout on Tuesday, the Cardinals have now dropped five straight and are winless in their last six (0-5-1). … Ten of SMU's 13 games have been against nationally ranked opponents. SMU's first four games were nonconference games against No. 15 St. Scholastica, No. 8 UW-Superior, No. 6 UW-Stevens Point and No. 12 UW-Eau Claire, while conference opponents Gustavus and Hamline were ranked No. 14 and No. 13, respectively. St. Norbert entered last Saturday's game as the nation's fourth-ranked team, while UW-Stout is currently ranked seventh. … SMU has now surrendered five or more goals in four straight games. The Cardinals have allowed five or more goals in nine of their 13 games — including a season-high 12 goals vs. UW-Stout. … The Blue Devils' 12 goals were the most allowed by SMU since giving up 12 in a 12-4 loss to St. Thomas on Jan. 25, 1990. … The Blue Devils scored 10 unanswered goals, before the Cardinals' Sean Geiger (Woodridge, Ill.) scored 13 minutes into the second period. … Eric Dahl (St. Cloud, Minn.) accounted for SMU's other goal vs. the Blue Devils Tuesday. … Nick Carlson (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) assisted on both SMU goals vs. UW-Stout. … Mike Glaesmer (Traverse City, Mich.) recorded his first collegiate four-goal game in SMU's 7-6 overtime loss to Hamline on Dec. 6. It was the first four-goal game by a SMU player since Nov. 1, 2002, when Al Schumacher tallied four goals in SMU's season-opening 9-3 win over Finlandia. … Steve Murphy (Anchorage, Alaska) boasts a team-leading five goals, one more than Glaesmer and Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.)… Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.), meanwhile, boasts a team-best nine assists and 10 points. … SMU's six goals vs. Hamline on Dec. 6 were the most scored in a losing effort since the 1998-98 season, when the Cardinals dropped an identical 7-6, overtime decision to Bethel. …  The Cardinals have been outscored 27-6 in the first period, 28-13 in the second period and 22-8 in the third.

Falcon Notes: After starting 1-6-1, the Falcons have won seven of their last nine games, but had their season-high five-game wininng streak snapped with Friday's loss to UW-Stout. … Tyler Czuba entered the weekend having recorded at least one point in seven of the team's last eight games (7 goals, 2 assists, 9 points), but was held without a point vs. the Blue Devils Friday. Czuba leads the team in goals (12) and points (17) — and is one of seven UW-RF players with 10 or more points through 16 games. … Derek Hansberry, meanwhile, extended his point streak to 10 straight games (8 goals, 5 assists, 13 points) with a goal vs. UW-Stout Friday. He leads the team with five power-play goals and also has two game-winners. … The Falcons have had as many as 10 freshmen in the lineup this season. … Stephen Ritter, who had allowed just four goals in his last four starts in goal, allowed three vs. UW-Stout Friday, stopping 21 of the 24 shots he faced. … Jamie Ruff (5 goals, 6 assists, 11 points) and Ben Beaudoin (3 goals, 8 assists, 11 points) are the leading scorers among UW-River Falls' first-year players. Beaudoin has two power-play goals and one game-winner. He scored the game-winning goal in last week's 2-1 overtime win over St. John's. … Josh Meyers (1 goal, 4 assists, 5 points) is the team's top scoring defenseman. … The Falcons enter tonight's game having won just once in five road games (1-4-0). … UW-RF has outscored its opponents 19-8 in the second period, but have been outscored 17-9 in the first and 24-21 in the third. … The Falcons have played three overtime games, going 2-0-1. … UW-River Falls is riding a five-game winning streak vs. MIAC opponents and enters tonight's final nonconference game 5-3-0 vs. the MIAC.