BRIDGEWATER, Mass. - Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey seniors Tyler Dorval (Liverpool, N.Y./Liverpool) and Sel Narby (Huntington, N.Y./Connecticut Junior Rangers) and first-year Brennan McFarland (Greeley, Colo./Northern Colorado Eagles) combined for 10 points in a 7-2 win over Stonehill College on Friday evening during Northeast-10 Conference play at the Bridgewater Ice Arena.

The Purple Knights leapfrogged idle Post University, which has concluded its regular season, to take over fourth place in the league. With a win or tie at Stonehill in its regular-season finale on Saturday, the Purple and Gold locks down no worse than the fourth seed in the NE10 Championship and a home first-round contest.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (7-12, 7-8 NE10), Stonehill (5-16-2, 2-10-2 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Narby, 4 assists
• Dorval, 2 goals, 1 assist, +3
• McFarland, 3 assists
• First-year Case Kantgias (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Northern Colorado Eagles), 1 goal, 1 assist
• Senior Cameron Stewart (Sabattus, Maine/East Coast Wizards), 1 goal
• Junior Owen Rudicus (Duxbury, Mass./Tabor Academy), 1 goal
• Sophomore Zach Taylor (Hanover, Mass./North Shore Kings), 1 goal
• First-year David Ciancio (Scituate, R.I./Seahawks Hockey Club), 1 goal
• Sophomore Marshall Murphy (Little Canada, Minn./Northern Colorado Eagles), 16 saves
• Junior Matt Schreiner (Falmouth, Mass./Walpole Express), 1 assist, 7-for-9 faceoffs
• Senior Thomas Flack (Toronto, Ontario/Saint Michael's Buzzers), 9-for-13 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Brendan Nehmer, 1 goal
• Sophomore Ryan King, 1 goal
• First-year Gavin FitzPatrick, 23 saves in 49:34
• Junior John Day, 3 saves in 10:26 of relief

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights are 5-3 since a 2-9 start, all within NE10 play. Saint Michael's scored at least seven goals for the fourth time in that eight-game stretch.
• The Purple and Gold held a sizable lead in shots (33-18) while trimming the hosts in faceoff wins, 32-27.
• Saint Michael's finished 3-for-4 on power plays and netted a pair of shorthanded goals.
• Six of the past seven meetings between the two schools had been decided by one goal or less.

THE ACTION

• Following a 10-day layoff, the Purple Knights were held scoreless until late in the first period, but went ahead on Kantgias' power-play goal at 18:20, as he fired a one-timer from the left circle off of Narby's pass. McFarland also assisted. That was the first of seven goals in a 29:12 stretch.
• Dorval put home a loose puck near the right post at 8:14 of the second to make it 2-0, with Schreiner and sophomore Gabriel Gagnon (Mascouche, Quebec/East Coast Wizards) picking up helpers.
• King cut into the deficit just 51 seconds later, tallying from the slot during a 5-on-3 opportunity.
• Murphy made three saves to help Saint Michael's salt away a five-minute major in the middle of the period, and another Purple Knight later went to the box, but Rudicus potted a shorthanded goal at 17:57 after a giveaway in neutral ice. Dorval and Narby assisted.
• Just 56 seconds later, Ciancio scored from the right circle off of a pass from McFarland. Narby also assisted.
• Taylor struck for a power-play goal 1:30 into the third period, pounding home a rebound from the slot following McFarland's initial shot being saved. Senior Matt Egan (Hingham, Mass./Kimball Union Academy) lent the secondary helper, as his team capped a 3:33 stretch during which it scored three times.
• Nehmer slipped a shot through Murphy at 2:13 off of a rebound, but Dorval countered at 3:48 with the Purple Knights' second shorthanded goal, poking a puck away at his own blue line before streaking in alone on FitzPatrick, making it 6-2.
• Stewart tallied from the left circle on a power play at 7:32 following Narby's feed to complete the offensive outburst. Kantgias added an assist.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Saturday at Stonehill, 4:30 p.m.