Sam LeDrew scored for the Saints in the first, and Filip Juříček tallied a power play goal in the second, but four unanswered goals from the visitors sent the St. Lawrence University men's hockey team to a 6-2 loss to Stonehill College on Friday night at Appleton Arena.

The Saints fell to 2-16-1 on the year, while the Skyhawks improved to 4-13-1.

St. Lawrence jumped out of the gates hot, scoring the first goal of the contest 30 seconds in. A dump into the Skyhawk zone was controlled behind the net by the netminder Connor Androlewicz, and he sent a pass up the sideboards. The pass was intercepted by Cayden Casey, who centered a pass to LeDrew, who one-timed the puck home for the 1-0 lead.

The Saints would go on the power play shortly after but were unable to capitalize on the chance. Instead, minutes later, Anthony Galante finished off a feed from Cole Melady to tie the contest at 1-1.

Later in the first, a shot by Teddy Lagerback from the left circle was stopped by Mason Kucenski, but the rebound came out to Justin Mexico, who buried the chance to take the 2-1 lead.

In the middle frame, the Scarlet and Brown went back on the power play in the first three minutes and knotted up the game at 2-2. On the man advantage, Tyler Cristall sent a pass down to the doorstep, where Cooper Pierson stickhandled a defender before skipping a pass to Juříček, whose one-time shot found twine for the goal.

Near the midway point of the game, Stonehill regained the lead on a bad bounce for the Saints. Moments after the Saints killed off a power play, Justin Gibson fired a puck into the St. Lawrence end on a dump-in, and the puck took a bad bounce off the glass and ended up going in to make it 3-2 going into the third.

The Skyhawks' Frank Ireland scored a power play goal in the first six minutes of the third to extend their lead, and another bad bounce for St. Lawrence made it a 5-2 score. Joseph Grainda put two shots on goal, both of which were stopped. The rebound then deflected off a defender and went in for Stonehill.

An empty-net goal for the Skyhawks in the final two minutes sealed the 6-2 score in favor of the visitors.

Kucenski stopped 24 shots for the Saints, while Androlewicz made 37 in the Stonehill goal.

St. Lawrence outshot the Skyhawks 39-30 in the contest, and both teams went 1-for-4 on the power play.

The teams will line up for game two of the weekend series tomorrow at 5 p.m. at Appleton Arena.