ST. PETER, Minn. — Ryan Rumble scored Lawrence University’s final two goals Sunday to lift the Vikings to a 4-3 nonconference victory over St. Olaf College in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Thanksgiving Showdown.
Rumble gave Lawrence (5-4-1) a 3-2 lead late in the second period and then broke a tie early in the third, and that proved to be the difference against the Oles (2-8-0).
Rumble gave Lawrence the lead when he scored off assists from Ryan Robertson and Jake Roeper with 1:30 left in the second period. That lead didn’t last as Matt Guerts scored on the power play with just 19 seconds left in the period to tie it at 3-3.
Lawrence grabbed the 4-3 lead when Rumble scored 3:45 into the third period with Roeper and Robertson picking up assists again.
Lawrence goaltender Mattias Soderqvist made that lead stand up as he stopped all 15 St. Olaf shots in the final period. Soderqvist finished with 37 saves.
The Vikings also had to kill off a pair of third-period penalties and held the Oles to 1-for-5 on the man-advantage for the game. St. Olaf pulled their goaltender for the final 1:22 but couldn’t get the equalizer.
Lawrence trailed 1-0 when Brendan Vetter scored with 9:00 left in the first period. The score remained tied at 1-1 until Roeper scored his first collegiate goal, a power-play tally, at the 5:58 mark of the second. The Oles tied it at 2-2 on a short-hander by Brian Hickey at the 14:21 mark of the second.
Luke Andriuk made 27 saves and took the loss for St. Olaf.