The Lawrence University hockey team scored four times in the first period and rolled to a 6-2 Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association victory over Northland College on Saturday at the Appleton Family Ice Center.
Six different players scored for Lawrence (3-0-1, 3-0-1 MCHA), who beat the Lumberjacks 5-3 on Friday night. The Vikings held Northland (0-4-0, 0-4-0) to just 22 shots, and Lawrence piled up 43 shots of its own.
Northland got on the board first when Garrett Nystedt scored 4:00 into the game. Lawrence answered just 28 seconds later on Derek Brickan’s first goal of the season.
The Vikings took the lead for good t the 9:22 mark when Sam Johnson fired one past Northland goaltender Kyle Finch. The Vikings quickly made it 4-1 on a pair of goals just 49 seconds apart. Patrick Coyne scored at the 15:35 mark, and Matt Hughes added a goal at 16:24.
Phil Buschbacher’s power-play goal early in the second period gave the Vikings a 5-1 lead, but Northland got a short-hander, its second in two games, to cut the lead back to 5-2.
Brad Scurfield closed out the scoring with a goal midway through the third period to put the Vikings up 6-2.
Peter Emery remains unbeaten early in his college career. Lawrence’s freshman goaltender stopped 20 shots to improve to 3-0 on the season. Finch made 37 saves and took the loss.