HOOKSETT, N.H. - Junior Zach Taylor (Hanover, Mass./South Shore Kings) and sophomore Brennan McFarland (Greeley, Colo./Northern Colorado Eagles) both scored twice as the Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team tallied the final five goals in a 5-1 victory over Southern New Hampshire University on Saturday at Ice Den Arena. The Purple Knights swept the Northeast-10 Conference weekend to capture the season series, 3-1.

RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (9-9-1, 8-5-1 NE10), Southern New Hampshire (6-15, 5-11 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Taylor, 2 goals, +2, 11-for-21 faceoffs
• McFarland, 2 goals, +2
• Senior Jeremy Routh (Hamden, Conn./New Hampshire Jr. Monarchs), 3 assists, +2
• Senior Paulius Macijauskas (Kėdainiai, Lithuania/Rice Memorial Prep), 1 goal (1st career), 1 assist, +3
• Senior Matt Schreiner (Falmouth, Mass./Walpole Express), 1 assist, 14-for-26 faceoffs
• Senior Sam Johnson (Freeport, Maine/Walpole Express), 5 blocks
• Sophomore Jack Bavis (West Roxbury, Mass./Valley Jr. Warriors), 3 blocks
• First-year Ashton Allain (Brentwood, Tenn./Walpole Express), 3 blocks
• Junior Marshall Murphy (Little Canada, Minn./Northern Colorado Eagles), 42 saves
• First-year Jake Lincourt (Smithfield, R.I./Walpole Express), 7-for-13 faceoffs

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Sophomore Jack Gray, 1 goal
• Graduate student Adam Mercer, 26 saves in 35:47, loss

GAME FACTS

• The Purple Knights are 5-1 in their last six games and scored at least five goals for the fourth time in that span. They gained an eight-point gap between their spot in third place in the NE10 standings and a pair of fourth-place squads, and are four points shy of first-place Assumption University.
• McFarland scored three goals this weekend after netting four goals in his first 36 career contests entering Friday night.
• Routh turned in eight points during the series, with three goals and five assists.
• In his last seven games, Taylor has contributed seven goals and six helpers.
• The Penmen held edges in faceoff wins (41-39) and shots (43-39), while Saint Michael's blocked 21 shots to the hosts' 10.
• The Purple Knights improved to 8-0 this season when scoring at least four goals.
• In the past 16 series meetings between the Purple Knights and Penmen, Saint Michael's moved to 8-0 in contests decided by at least three goals.

THE ACTION

• Midway through the opening period, Southern New Hampshire won a faceoff in its own end before a chip off the boards led to a 2-on-1 break, which Murphy snuffed out by stopping senior Andrew Ray's initial shot, but Gray crashed the slot and buried the rebound.
• Macijauskas swung momentum in favor of the Purple Knights by blasting a shot home from the left point just before the period buzzer sounded.
• Only 4:58 into the second frame, Macijauskas fired a shot from the right point that rebounded out to Taylor, who stuffed in the second chance for the eventual game-winner.
• Saint Michael's added three more goals in a 6:52 span later in the period. Schreiner won a faceoff directly to McFarland, whose shot from the edge of the right circle handcuffed Mercer at 12:36 to begin the flurry.
• Taylor and first-year Quinn McCarthy (Melrose, Mass./Holderness School) worked a give-and-go a few minutes later, with Taylor concluding the sequence by tallying from the left circle at 16:21.
• McFarland went glove side on the Penmen netminder from the right circle with 32 seconds to go.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at Saint Anselm College, 7 p.m.