STEVENS POINT, Wis. - Lawrence Cornellier (Machesney Park, IL/Harlem) scored his first-career hat trick to give the sixth-ranked UW-Stevens Point men's hockey team its first conference win of the season with a 5-3 win over UW-Superior on Saturday evening at K.B. Willett Arena.
 
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With 19 seconds left and UW-Stevens Point (7-3-1, 1-1-0 WIAC) up a goal, Cornellier completed his hat trick with an empty-net goal to bring his season total to a season-high nine goals. The Pointers had trailed UW-Superior (3-6-2, 0-2-0 WIAC) by 2-1 and 3-2 scores but scored the last three goals to pick up the win.
 
Trailing 3-2 in the final two minutes of the second period, Cornellier brought the Pointers even with his second goal of the night at 19:23. Jono Davis (La Verne, CA) then put home a rebound from a Joe Kalisz (Davison, MI/Davison) shot at 5:43 of the third for his first official UWSP goal to give UW-Stevens Point the lead with the eventual game-winning goal.
 
Both teams scored in a frantic opening minute of the game, as Joey Haydock (Junction City, WI) opened the scoring just 41 seconds in but Owen Stauber hit right back for UW-Superior 15 seconds later.
 
Midway through the first frame, the Yellowjackets took the lead on an unassisted goal from Jordan Neduzak. Cornellier got his first goal of the evening at the 17:57 mark to tie the game 2-2 heading into the second period.
 
With under two minutes to go in the second period, Anton Svensson reclaimed the lead for UW-Superior, setting up the UWSP rally.
 
Sophomore goaltender Max Milosek (Lapeer, MI) made 15 saves, including a one-on-none break away save with 1:40 remaining in the third period in a one-goal game, to record the win. Ethan Wood made 34 saves for UW-Superior in his first-career appearance.
 
Both teams were unable to take advantage of the extra skater as both went 0-for-3 on the power play.
 
UWSP will close out the 2015 calendar year by taking on Northland on Friday evening in Ashland, Wis. Puck drop is scheduled for 7 p.m.