In desperate need of a win and playing like it, Colorado College found a way to get the job done on Saturday.

The Tigers battled from behind with three unanswered goals in the third period, cooling off St. Cloud State University with a 6-4 victory that earned them a split of their two-game series at the World Arena.

CC trailed by a 4-3 count after 40 minutes of play but got big tallies by senior winger Addison DeBoer, junior defenseman Ryan Lowery and senior right wing Mike Testwuide in the final frame to end the Huskies' nine-game winning streak.

DeBoer's tally tied the contest for the fourth time with 13:08 left to play after senior linemate Dan Quilico forced a turnoer in the SCSU end. Lowery scored the game winner at 15:02, taking William Rapuzzi's pass from behind the net and shelving a quick wrist shot past St. Cloud State goalie Mike Lee from just above the left faceoff dot.  

Testwuide, who also collected a pair of assists, added an empty netter with 10.4 seconds remaining to lift the Tigers back into a fourth-place tie with Wisconsin in the WCHA standings. CC improved to 15-10-3 overall and 11-8-3 in league play, and climbed from a tie for 16th to 12th in the all-important Pairwise rankings.

Saturday's triumph was not without controversy, as referees Don Adam and Brett Kozlowski disallowed an apparent tying goal by the Huskies with 1:30 left to play.

The game also featured the collegiate debut of freshman goaltender Michael Shibrowski, who entered in relief of starter Joe Howe and played the final 15:05 of the first period. Shibrowski stopped three of the four shots he faced. Howe, who returned to start the middle stanza, finished with 25 saves.

CC out-shot the Huskies by a 12-8 margin in the opening frame but came out of it trailing, 3-2, on the scoreboard.

The Tigers drew first blood when senior center Brian McMillin rifled a one-timer past Lee at 1:59 after taking a pass in the slot from Tim Hall.

The Huskies responded less than two minutes later, when Garrett Roe set up Tony Mosey at 3:55, then went ahead a minute after that on a goal by fourth-liner Travis Novak.

St. Cloud State's Jared Festler missed a wide open net midway through the period, allowing Testwuide and freshman Andrew Hamburg to break up ice on a two-on-one rush. Testwuide waited until the last possible moment before twirling and backhanding a goalmouth pass to Hamburg, who lifted the puck past a sprawling Lee for the first of his two tallies in the game.

Roe put the visitors back on top at 17:01, firing high to Howe's glove side from the right faceoff circle. The teams traded goals in the second period, when Hamburg and Roe each netted his second of the night.