LAKE FOREST, Ill. – Lake Forest College used two goals in the first three minutes of the second period to break open a scoreless game and went on to defeat the St. Olaf College men's hockey team, 3-1, in non-conference action on Saturday night at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.

After a scoreless opening period, Lake Forest (6-2-1) got goals from Joey Sardina and David Cohen 1:50 apart early in the second and held off St. Olaf (1-8-0) after senior Steve MacIver netted his first-career goal in the final two minutes of the second. The Foresters, who were receiving votes in this week's USCHO.com national poll, added an empty-net goal with 14 seconds remaining to ensure the win in the series opener in the first meeting between the two programs since Jan. 11, 2014.

Senior Noah Parker saved all 17 shots he faced in the first period to help the Oles keep the game scoreless at the first intermission despite being outshot by a 17-9 margin in the first 20 minutes. St. Olaf killed off a pair of penalties in the opening period as well.

After senior Tuukka Totro fired a pair of shots on goal in the first minute of the second, Lake Forest opened the scoring through Sardina's goal at 1:02 and cashed in on the power play 1:50 later on a tally by Cohen to quickly increase the hosts' lead to 2-0.

The Oles killed off a penalty later in the period and got on the board at the 18:19 mark on MacIver's first collegiate goal, which was assisted by Totro.

Trailing by just one goal, St. Olaf got its first power play of the game just 27 seconds into the third period, but the Lake Forest defense blocked four of the Oles' five shot attempts on the man advantage to maintain the one-goal lead.

The Oles generated four shots on goal in the final 3:19 of the game, but Boyd DiClemente stopped all four, as the Foresters added an empty-net goal at 19:46 after winning a defensive zone faceoff with 20 seconds to go.

Parker made 40 saves in the loss to record his second 40-save outing of the season, while DiClemente improved to 6-1-1 on the season by stopping 23 of the 24 shots he faced.

The two teams wrap up their series on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 2 p.m. at Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse.