BEMIDJI, Minn.(John S. Glas Fieldhouse) -- On a night when the Bemidji State University men’s ice hockey team honored its seniors, appropriately it was a senior who took center stage as the Beavers came from behind to defeat Robert Morris University, 6-4, to wrap up the 2008-09 regular season. Fourth-year forward, Tyler Scofield (Prince George, British Columbia) netted his first collegiate hat trick during a second period in which BSU scored five goals and grabbed the lead for good.

Five of the Beavers’ six goals came courtesy of special teams play. BSU finished the game 2-for-6 on the power-play and added a Bemidji State Division I-era record three short-handed goals. After playing the first 31 games of the season without recording a single short-handed goal, the team was just 29:39 from skating through the entire regular season with out a shorty for the first time since the 1966-67 season, but the Beavers piled up three tonight ignited by Scofield’s third goal of the evening to join several other teams in a tie for fifth place in NCAA Division I history.

Down 1-0 after 20 minutes of play, the Beavers knotted the game 2:33 into the second period when Scofield scored a power-play marker with help from Matt Francis (Sr., F, Surrey British Columbia) and Brad Hunt (Fr., D, Ridge Meadows, British Columbia) who each, along with Matt Read (Fr., F, Ilderton, Ontario), registered three points on the night.

Twenty-three seconds later, RMU’s Chris Margott would zip an even-strength marker past BSU goaltender Orlando Alamano (Sr., G, Fresno, Calif.) who was between the piped for the Beavers for the first time since Jan. 17th.

At the four-minute mark, BSU got a power-play goal from Francis to lock the score at 2-2 before Scofield put the Beavers in front for the first time all game five minutes into the second. With his second goal of the night, Scofield became the sixth player of BSU’s Division I era to post 100 points during a career and now sits tied for fourth on the Beavers’ Division I scoring chart with 43-58=101 points.

The see-saw battled continued as the Colonials regained the lead, 4-3, at the 9:49 mark of the period after James Lyle and Denny Urban posted back-to-back goals separated by just 2:03. But the Beavers were determined to send their seniors out with a bang and got short-handed goals by Scofield and Read to wrap up the Beavers’ first five-goal period since a Nov. 12, 2004, 9-2 victory over Bentley and send the team to the third period grasping a 5-4 lead.

Alamano kept the Colonials out of the net in the third and Ben Kinne (Fr., F, St. Paul, Minn.) netted his first collegiate short-handed goal on an empty net with just over a minute to play to put the win in the books.

A total of six Beavers found their way into the scoring column while four of them posted three-or-more points.

Alamano completed the game with 20 saves in 59:58 of work collecting his first victory of the campaign. His record moves to 1-5-0.

The Colonials were goaltender by committee tonight. After the starter Brooks Ostergard allowed BSU fourth goal of the evening, RMU head coach Derek Schooley replaced the freshman with Jim Paterson, but not before he totaled 17 saves in just over 30 minutes between the pipes. Patterson finished the game with 20 saves in nearly 30 minutes play, but allowed the game-winning goal by Read and was credited with the loss. He falls to 0-3-1 on the season.

After the game the Beavers were presented with the R.H. Peters Trophy for their outright College Hockey America regular season championship, the teams fourth in six years and the 21st conference crown in the storied history of the BSU hockey program.

Next up for Bemidji State (16-15-1; 12-5-1 CHA) is the 2009 CHA Tournament march 13-14. BSU will take on No. 4 Ala.-Huntsville in the semifinal round (7 p.m.) while No. 3 Robert Morris and No. 2 Niagara square off in the 2 p.m. semifinal Friday. The Battle for the Bid will take place at the John S. Glas Fieldhouse with the third place game scheduled for 2 p.m. Saturday and the championship contest slated for 7 p.m.