ST. CLOUD, Minn. (National Hockey Center) — Special teams play and stellar goaltending made the difference carrying the St. Cloud State University men's ice hockey team to victory over Bemidji State University Saturday evening at National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn.

The Huskies totaled four power-play goals--with three coming in the first period--and a short-handed tally in the second while freshman goaltender Dan Dunn stopped 35 BSU shots for his first win of his career (1-0-0) as SCSU extended its winning streak over BSU to 13 games.

For the fourth consecutive game, BSU out shot its opponent, Saturday totaling 36 shots to St. Cloud State's 30. But only one of those, a Cody Bostock (Salmon Arm, British Columbia) power-play marker, found the back of the net leaving the Beavers with their fourth straight loss.

St. Cloud State got the scoring started 30-seconds into its first power-play opportunity of the night. Garrett Roe and Garrett Raboin found Ryan Lasch for his second goal of the season during the eight minute of play.

The goal was just a sign of things to come as the Huskies would capitalize on four of eight power-play chances and Roe would earn the first star of the game by adding two goals and another assist.

Less than 30-seoncds later, Matt Francis (Jr., F, Surrey, British Columbia) was whistled for one of BSU's nine penalties and it would take SCSU's Roe just 79-seconds to find the net and increase the Huskies' lead to 2-0 with assists from Aaron Brocklehurst and Andreas Nodl on the play. The goal would stand as the game-winner.

Bostock would add a power-play goal, his first of 2007-08, at the 11:51 mark as Matt Read (Fr., F, Ilderton, Ontario) and Tyler Scofield (Jr., F, Prince George, British Columbia) found the open defender who fired a laser past Dunn to cut the deficit in half, 2-1.

Nodl stretched SCSU's lead back to two goals, 3-1, during the 17th minute of the period halfway into BSU captain David Deterding's (Sr., D, Alexandria, Minn.) second trip to the box of the night. The Huskies third power-play marker came on assists from Roe and Aaron Brocklehurst.

The Huskies would take a 4-1 lead in the locker rooms for the first intermission when Nate Dey notched his fourth goal of the season with just 1:02 left in the period. Lasch and Brocklehurst were credited with assists on SCSU's only even-strength scoring play of the night.

Bemidji State made a change in net for the second period sending senior goalie Matt Climie (Leduc, Alberta) to the crease in relief for the freshman Matt Dalton (Clinton, Ontario). Climie made 10 saves in the stanza and helped to successfully kill a pair of SCSU power-play chances, but when Dey stole a pass near the top of the left face off circle and sniped a shot into the upper right corner of the net a man short at the 12:21 mark of the second period, the Huskies would go up 5-1.

The Huskies would add another power-play tally during the sixth minute of the third period to push the score to the final 6-1 when Roe netted his second goal of the night with help from Nodl and Raboin.

Dalton made six saves during the first 20 minutes but allowed four goals to slide to 0-2-0 on the season. In relief, Climie managed 18 saves with two goals allowed playing the game's final 40 minutes.

Dunn finished the night with a career-high 35 saves while allowing just one BSU goal.

The loss is the 13th straight to St. Cloud State University and the eighth in as many tries for BSU at the National Hockey Center. SCSU improves to 35-42-3 in the all-time series dating back to the 1948 season.

The Beavers, 2-4-0 on the season, return home for a two-game set to open the College Hockey America season next weekend. BSU welcomes Niagara University to the John Glas Fieldhouse Friday for a 7:35 p.m. start with the puck set to drop at 7:05 p.m. in the series finale Saturday.

Notes: BSU is now 3-22-2 on Olympic ice in the Division I-era... BSU’s last win on a 200x100 rink came at Colorado College Dec. 29, 2006... BSU’s current four-game losing streak is its longest since a four-game skid between Jan. 12 and 20 of last season... It is just the third skid of four games or more since the beginning of the 2003-04 season... The Beavers have been defeated by SCSU in the last 13 meetings between the teams and have never on at National Hockey Center... The SCSU/BSU all-time series stands at 42-35-3 in favor of the Beavers.

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