Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 One night after falling to cross-town rivals Calvin, the Aquinas College men's hockey team rebounded with a 6-3 win at Southside Ice Arena to split the weekend series. The win stopped the Saints' four game losing streak and improves the Saints' record to 2-4 on the season.

Aquinas dropped Friday nights game at Calvin by a final of 4-1 to lose their fourth straight game. Russell Shengulette scored the lone goal for the Saints with Connor Barta assisting on the play. Goaltender Roman Malkov made 22 saves on the night. The Saints outshot the Knights 38-26 on the night, but surrendered two power-play goals and a shorthanded goal to Calvin.

The two teams met again last night, this time at Southside Ice Arena, with the game going much differently. This time the Saints jumped out to an early lead, with a Nick Long goal midway through the first-period. Kyle Truax and Mason Stewart had assists on the play. Ryan Wolfe made it 2-0 just two minutes later with a power-play goal. Truax again had an assist on the play, along with Brandon Schwandt. The Knights trimmed the lead to 2-1 late in the period with a power-play goal of their own.

The second-period belonged to the Saints, who dominated play but were only able to add one goal to their lead. Brandon Rozema found the back of the net right off of a faceoff won by the Saints deep in the Calvin zone. Once again it was Truax on the assist, with Trent Kulczyk also credited with a helper.

Truax got on the scoresheet with a goal of his own just two minutes into the third, with an assist by Kulczyk to make it 4-1. But the Knights would not go down quietly, and came out firing after Truax's goal, scoring twice in the next three minutes of action to cut the lead to just 4-3. With Calvin tilting the ice for much of the third-period, the Saints needed to make a play to earn the win, and they got a big one from Nick Long. The sophomore transfer swiped a bad pass from the Knights deep in the Calvin zone and blasted a wrister over Calvin goalie Darin Fox to give the Saints a two-goal cushion. Steven Nisbet put the game away with a goal with under two minutes to go after a tremendous individual effort from Greg McQuade, who assisted on the play.

Three Saints had mult-point games, with Truax leading the way with a goal and three assists, Trent Kulczyk with two assists and Nick Long with two goals. Five Saints had goals on the day with nine players recording a point. Goaltender Roman Malkov was strong once again, making 29 stops, including a litany of great stops on the break and at the doorstep in the third-period during the Knights' comeback.

Aquinas is back in action next weekend with a pair of huge WHAC games against UM-Dearborn on Friday and Saturday.