For the second game in a row, Colorado College's special teams made the difference.

CC struck four times on the power play and once shorthanded on Friday while skating to a 6-4 non-conference victory over Air Force at the Cadet Ice Arena.

With the triumph, the Tigers evened their overall record to 5-5-1 heading into Saturday's contest against No. 3-ranked Yale University at the World Arena. They now are 31-1-1 against AFA dating back to the 1985-86 season.

The Falcons dropped to 2-6 despite launching 30 shots in the first two periods on CC netminder Joe Howe, who finished with 35 saves for the night. Junior Stephen Caple made 27 stops for Air Force.

Six different players scored for Colorado College, which broke open a tight game with three red lighters during a span of 6:44 midway through the final frame. All three came on the power play.

Freshman left wing Jaden Schwartz fueled the attack with a goal and two assists, while four Tigers – Stephen Schultz, Nick Dineen, Rylan Schwartz and Alexander Krushelnyski – each had a goal and helped set up another.

Senior foward Tyler Johnson also lit the lamp. Sophomore defenseman Joe Marciano picked up a pair of assists.

The Tigers scored first in the game, grabbing a 1-0 lead on a power-play goal by Jaden Schwartz with 1:51 left in the opening period. Schultz made a nice pass to Schwartz from the high slot, and the St. Louis Blues first-round draft pick cut in alone from the left side before beating Caple with a backhander.

Air Force came out flying to start the second stanza, scoring twice within 32 seconds to turn the tables. Freshman Tony Thomas tied the contest with the first of his two goals at the 1:41 mark, after a feed from linemate John Kruse, and at 2:13 junior Paul Weisgarber found himself wide open in front to convert on George Michalke's centering pass from behind the CC net.

Colorado College took a pair of penalties within four minutes of Weisgarber's tally, but the Falcons were unable to cash in. Instead, with his team short a man, freshman Krushelnyski skated into the AFA zone and fired a wrist shot from the outer edge of the left faceoff circle that found the far corner of the cage on Caple's glove side at 7:40. 

Then, at 16:15 of that middle period, Dineen's deflection of Marciano's shot from the right point put the Tigers back on top to stay, at 3-2. Johnson's power-play goal at 5:49 of the third period made it 4-2. 

Schultz scored what proved to be the game winner at  11:50 of the final frame, on his own rebound just 34 seconds after Thomas' second goal pulled Air Force to within 4-3. Both Schwartz's assisted on the tally.