Alec Hagaman scored twice, including the game-winner in overtime, to help the men's hockey team to a wild 7-6 win at UW-Stout on Saturday night.

With the win the Falcons stay in second place in the NCHA standings with 20 points and sets up a big weekend of play next weekend at Hunt Arena.

Hagaman scored an unassisted goal at 1:42 of the extra session to give UWRF the win. It was his ninth goal of the year and his first game-winner of the season.

UWS scored the first goal of the game, but the Falconsbattled back to hold a 3-1 lead after the first period. Stout's Joe Beaudette scored a power-play goal at 8:20. Justin Brossman took a minor penalty for slashing  and the Blue Devils made UWRF pay for it.

But from there on it was all UWRF. The Falcons scored twice within 12 seconds to take a 2-1 lead. At 9:06 Jake Calleja scored his fifth goal of the year with an assist to Steve Zierke. Just 12 seconds later Jason Yuel scored his sixth goal of the year with assists to Brossman and Willie Hess.

UWS then took a penalty at 12:38 and the Falcons responded with a power-play goal. Hagaman scored the goal, his eighth of the year, with assists to Adam Cardwell and George Malliaras at 13:21.

The Falcons got a huge lift from their penalty killers late in the period. With just over five minutes left Ryan Gunderson was given a five-minute major penalty for checking from behind. And then, with 3:19 to go, Jon Schreiner was given a minor penalty for interference. But the Falcon penalty killers held the Blue Devils off the scoreboard for the rest of the period.

The second period was a wild affair as the two teams combined for seven goals. At the end, the Falcons held a 6-5 lead. Six of the goals came in the last three plus minutes of the period,

Garrett Grimstad scored twice for UWS including a short-handed goal at 3:56 to make it a 3-2 game. The Falcons regained the two-goal lead, 4-2, when Brossman scored his 10th of the year with assists to Yule and Hess at 16:36. Grimstad scored his second of the game at 17:08 to cut the Falcons lead to 4-3.

Calleja then scored his second of the game, and sixth of the year, at 17:21. John Bullis and Zierke got the assists. But just 21 seconds later Branden Gay scored to cut the Falcon lead back to one, 5-4. At 18:11 Cardwell put the Falcons back up by two, 6-4, with his seventh goal of the year. He was assisted by Schreiner and Geoff Shewmake. But Stout clawed back to within one, 6-5, when Mike Hartviksen scored with just 19 seconds to play in the period. UWS had a 12-11 advantage in shots in the wild stanza.

UWS scored the only goal of the third period at 5:49 when Gay scored his second of the game. The Falcons had a power play later in the period but could not take advantage of the situation.

Falcon goalie Scott Lewan made 30 saves, including two in overtime, to get the win. UWS goalie, Nick Hopper, stopped 28 shots.

Calleja with two goals and Zierke and Hess with two assists all had multiple point games. It was Calleja's second, Zierke's first, Hess' second and Hagaman's fourth multiple point game.

The Falcons, now 15-6-2 overall and 9-5-2 in the NCHA, will play their final two games of the regular season next weekend. On Friday the Falcons host St. Scholastica and on Saturday they host UW-Superior. Both games start at 7:05 p.m., at Hunt Arena. UWRF is in second place in the NCHA standings with 20 points. They trail first place St. Norbert by two points and lead third place St. Scholastica by two points.

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