By DONNY NADEAU
Saint Mary's Sports Information Director
 
OSWEGO, N.Y. — If the Saint Mary's University men's hockey team was intimidated by the Pathfinder/Oswego State Hockey Classic field, the Cardinals certainly didn't show in.
 
In fact, the Cardinals proved to be every bit as good as their nationally ranked opponents.
 
Check that — the Cardinals proved to better than their nationally ranked opponents.
 
Just 24 hours after knocking off 10th-ranked Oswego State 1-0 in their tournament-opener, the Cardinals — the lone unranked team in the four-team field — were at it again, rolling to a 4-2 victory over 14th-ranked Williams to claim the tournament title.
 
The Cardinals — who got a goal from Tommy Stang (Mendota Heights, Minn.) with 18 seconds remaining in the first period to account for the only scoring in Friday's 1-0 win over host Oswego State — waited until the final 70 seconds of the second period to get their offense rolling against Williams.
 
Jack Stang (Mendota Heights, Minn.) provided the second-period offensive punch for the Cardinals, breaking the scoreless deadlock at 18:50, before adding his second of the game just 47 seconds later to give Saint Mary's a 2-0 lead heading into the game's final 20 minutes.
 
Tommy Stang pushed the Saint Mary's lead to 3-0, scoring the team's first short-handed goal of the season midway through the third period.
 
Williams foiled Saint Mary's goalie Al Rogers' (New Haven, Conn.) bid for a second straight shutout, netting its first of the game at 16:11. Sam Hanson (Eau Claire, Wis.) pushed the Saint Mary's lead back to three with an empty net tally two minutes later, and Williams' Max Fuld rounded out the scoring with 37 seconds remaining in regulation.
 
Rogers, who stopped all 30 shots he faced in recording his first collegiate shutout against Oswego State on Friday, finished with 37 saves against the Ephs en route to earning tournament MVP honors. Jack and Tommy Stang joined Rogers on the All-Tournament Team.
 
The Cardinals (5-5-1 overall) — winners of three straight — return to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action next weekend with a pair of games against St. Thomas. Saint Mary's will host the Tommies in a 7 p.m. contest on Friday at the Saint Mary's Ice Arena, before the two teams head to the St. Thomas Ice Arena in Mendota Heights, Minn., for the 7 p.m. rematch the following evening.