ST. PAUL, MINN. – Luke Helgeson scored his first career goal and Oren Shtrom and Jalen Bianchet each tallied two points for Alaska Anchorage in a 5-2 loss at St. Thomas Friday.
"I didn't think that we played very connected as a tonight, and St. Thomas was very opportunistic on their chances," said head coach Eric Rud. "We need to execute every part of our game plan tomorrow night for us to have success."
Lucas Van Vliet opened the scoring with a power-play goal for St. Thomas in the final 30 seconds of the first period.
Oren Shtrom tied the game at 1-1 with his second goal of the season at 7:14 of the second. Tye Spencer and Jalen Bianchet found Shtrom in the slot who fired a wrister in the corner stick-side on UST goalie William Ingemann.
Lucas Van Vliet scored his second goal of the game at 8:33, and St. Thomas added goals at 13:15 and 19:30.
Luke Helgeson scored his first career goal at 3:58 of the third period with a low shot through traffic. Oren Shtrom and Jalen Bianchet each assisted on the goal for their second assists of the game.
Lucas Van Vliet completed the hat-trick with his second power-play goal of the game at 8:12 of the third period.
UAA was out-shot 38-25, and Joey Rocha finished with 33 saves for the Seawolves.
The Tommies finished 2-for-4 on the powerplay while the Seawolves did not have a single powerplay opportunity.
Alaska Anchorage and St. Thomas will close out the weekend series Saturday.
