BEMIDJI, Minn. (John S. Glas Fieldhouse) -- Despite goals by Brad Hunt (Fr., D, Ridge Meadows, British Columbia) and Tyler Scofield (Sr., F, Prince George, British Columbia) in the final 6:06 of regulation, the nationally-ranked St. Cloud State Huskies were too much for Bemidji State Saturday at the John Glas Fieldhouse.

The Huskies used a four-goal second period, which included a 3-for-4 showing on the power play, to push past the Beavers, 5-3, and square the series at a game apiece.

Cody Bostock (Sr., D, Salmon Arm, British Columbia) gave the Beavers a one-goal lead (1-0) at the end of the first period when he recorded his first goal of the season at the 17:18 mark with help from Hunt on BSU’s third power-play opportunity of the stanza.

BSU would hold that lead until Garret Roe knotted the game at 1-1 with the first of three second period power-play markers by the Huskies at the 8:33 mark.

Jared Festler would get help from Roe just five minutes later, scoring another goal on the man advantage to give the Huskies’ their first lead of the weekend series. It was a lead they would not relinquish as SCSU would get goals from Aaron Marvin and again from Festler before time expired on the period to take a 4-1 lead into the third period.

Down three goals with just over six minutes to play, Hunt supplied the Beavers with a spark sniping a slap shot past Jase Weslosky on the power play to reel St. Cloud State to within two goals. His power-play marker coupled with his first period helper gave the freshman his first collegiate multi-point night.
Just 1:36 later, Scofield brought the 1,911 in attendance to their feet with a dazzling move to slip the puck into the back of the net and breath life into a BSU comeback. Shea Walters (Fr., F, Hibbing, minn.) and Matt Read (So., C, Ilderton, Ontario) were credited with assists on the play.

After BSU head coach Tom Serratore called timeout to pull his goaltender with1:36 to play, the Beavers came up with a couple good scoring opportunities but could not convert and the Huskies would add an empty net goal with nine seconds remaining to push the score to 5-3 and solidify the victory.

Orlando Alamano made 23 saves in the outing, but allowed four goals and falls to 0-3-0 on the season.

Weselosky posted 29 saves in 59:59 of action to garner the win, improving to 2-2-0 on the season.

For the first time this season, the Beavers out shot their opponents, 31-28, but it would be in vain.

SCSU trims BSU’s lead in the series to 43-36-3 and exits the weekend owning a 11-1-0 record versus BSU since the teams began competing at the NCAA Division I level in 1999, after going 11-1 on the weekend.

Bemidji State (1-5-0; 0-0-0 CHA) are back in action next weekend when it hosts the University of Manitoba a pair of exhibition contests. The series is set to begin at 7:35 p.m. Friday evening and will conclude Saturday with a 7:05 p.m. opening face off.