MANSFIELD, Texas - After scoring 37 goals combined in the last series against the University of North Texas, the East Texas Baptist University hockey team took on the same UNT team on the road and came away with nearly identical results. ETBU won both meetings outscoring the Eagles 32-7 with wins of 12-2 and 20-5. 
 
Game one was a 12-2 victory for the Tigers led by a four-goal performance by Riley Knott while Devon Baird added a hat-trick of his own. Alex Domas played forty minutes making 12 saves on 14 shots while Tyler Fitzgeraldhad a shutout third period with two saves.
In game two, the Tigers put up their second twenty-goal performance on the season with a 20-5 win. While Knott added five goals to finish with nine for the weekend, Mike Garvie picked up a double hat trick with six goals in the game. Michael Candido also had a hat trick in the game while Hunter McAdams spent all sixty minutes making 16 saves on 21 shots. 
 
Game 1: ETBU 12, UNT 2
ETBU would score five goals in the first period with four of them coming in the first five minutes. Fifty-two seconds into the contest, Knott started the scoring for a 1-0 lead. Baird would follow with a goal forty-three seconds later before Garvie made it 3-0 with 16:48 to go. Baird's second goal came almost a minute-and-a-half later as the Tigers seized a 4-0 edge. UNT would hold ETBU silent for the next thirteen minutes while Domas kept the Eagles off the board. With two minutes left in the periodd, Baird picked up his hat trick as the Tigers took a 5-0 lead into the first intermission.
 
UNT would finally get on the board sixty-five seconds into the second period on a goal from Chase Deacon. The Tigers would then answer with two consecutive goals in a span of thirteen seconds from both Skyler Spiller (16:09) and Knott (15:56). The Eagles would then get the second goal from Samuel Zieders (11:09). But ETBU would finish with three straight goals as Garvie would make it 8-2 while power play goals from Maason Sprott (1:38) and Kris Perry (0:19) provided the Tigers a 10-2 lead through two periods.
 
The third period would be scoreless for five minutes before Knott would up the score to 13-2 at 14:48 to complete the hat trick. He would then secure his fourth goal fifty-three seconds later as the Tigers would have a 12-2 lead for the remainder of the contest.
 
Game 2: ETBU 20, UNT 5
Knott would start the game with a natural hat trick, meaning he score three unanswered goals (18:58, 12:07, 8:53) as the Tigers took an early 3-0 lead. UNT would get on the board at 7:15 with a goal from Preston Lamm. Knott would finish his scoring for the day with the next two goals (5:45, 3:14) to see ETBU up 5-1. In the final minute of the period, Garvie would score an short-handed goal (0:34) and an even strength goal (0:03) in a span of thirty-one seconds as the Tigers led 7-1 through one period.
 
Garvie would also get a natural hat-trick on a power play goal just eight seconds in the second period. Thirty-three seconds later, Deacon would get the Eagles their second goal as the score was 8-2. Garvie would pick up two more goals (16:18, 4:10) while Candido (11:18) and Baird (4:18) added to ETBU's scoring in the second period. UNT would manage to get a second goal (8:26) from Deacon. By the end of two periods, ETBU had increased the lead to 12-3.
 
Each team would score a goal to start the third period as UNT's Peyton Lafferty (17:11) and ETBU's Baird (16:54) would push the score 13-4 in ETBU's favor. After Deacon scored a hat-trick at 12:07 to cut the deficit to 13-5, the Tigers would run off seven straight goals. Nick Buzzoto (11:18) and Zachary Anderson (10:55) scored within twenty-three seconds of each other while Candido would score his second goal at 10:28 for a 16-5 lead. Spiller then picked up the next two Tiger goals (8:21, 4:01) to make it 18-5. Candido would record his hat trick with seventeen seconds to play before Garvie tallied his sixth goal fourteen seconds later.
 
ETBU will be returning to action this weekend as they will travel to Austin, Texas to take on the University of Texas. Friday night's game will start at 8:40 PM while Saturday's contest begins at 7:40 PM.