COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Defenseman Jack Hillen scored two goals and had two assists as Colorado College came from behind to beat Minnesota State, Mankato, 5-2 on Friday.
The Tigers (24-8-1, 19-5-1 WCHA) trailed 2-0 and scored five unanswered goals, including three on the power play.
Hillen tied the game at 2 with a long-range shot 25 seconds into the second period and assisted on Scott McCulloch’s game-winning goal with 3:07 remaining in the second. He also assisted on Chad Rau’s first-period power-play goal and scored again in the third.
Tigers goaltender Richard Bachman (33 saves) was coming off back-to-back shutouts at Minnesota Duluth, but the Mavericks’ Kael Mouillierat ended that streak quickly, scoring a breakaway goal just 48 seconds into the game.
The Mavericks went up 2-0 on a Mick Berge goal, but Rau, the WCHA’s leading goals scorer, began the comeback with 3:06 left in the first period. Bachman found his form in the second period, stopping 20 shots.
Mike Zacharias finished with 26 saves for Minnesota State (16-13-4, 10-11-4), which has now lost three straight. Rau finished with two goals, including an empty-netter.
