Benilde-St. Margaret's Boys' Hockey

Pat Borer recorded his first career hat trick and was on the ice for 11 of his team's 13 goals as Benilde-St. Margaret's posted a 13-0 win over Chisago Lakes in the Red Knights' regular-season home finale.

Borer was one of three players to record hat tricks on the night. Both he and Pat Steinhauser added an assist to their three-goal efforts while Christian Horn scored his 20th, 21st and 22nd goals of the season.

BSM opened the game with three rapid-fire goals as Dan Pemberton scord four minutes, 49 seconds into the contest. Steinhauser scored just nine seconds later and added his second goal 29 seconds later.

Borer also scored his first two goals in the opening period, sandwhiching Horn's first tally, as the Red Knights took a six-goal lead into the first intermission.

"We came up very fast and hard and we haven’t done that all year," BSM head coach Ken Pauly said. "After a rough week, this was a good game for our team."

It was a night for the Pats as Patrick Duda and Patrick Daly scored the only goals of the second period before Steinhauser and Borer finished their hat tricks in the third period. Duda also added two assists in the win as did Pat Cron.

Horn scored twice in the third period to cap off his hat trick while Pemberton notched his four goal of the season.

While there was plenty of action at the other end of the ice, Rob Ankeny came up with several key saves to preserve his third shutout of the season.

"Rob Ankeny didn’t have a lot of action," Pauly said. "But he earned the shutout with a handful of great saves in tight.

"I don’t think I’ve every coached a team that had three guys get a hat trick in a single game. A lot of people got in on the scoring, a lot of guys played, and we took a giant step towards winning the conference title. It’s just nice to get some positive feeling going again."

The Red Knights are now tied for first place in the North Suburban Conference standings with Totino-Grace.

While the Eagles have a single, two-point game remaining on their conference slate, BSM faces Robbinsdale Cooper, Thursday, in the teams' only meeting of the season. As a four-point game, a Red Knight victory would give them their fourth consecutive conference title. Game time at the New Hope Arena is set for 7 p.m.