Box Score While Colorado College's 3-3 tie at the World Arena on Saturday may not have felt like the perfect ending to its best weekend of the season, it definitely was another step forward.
 
The Tigers, who never trailed, saw the No. 16-ranked University of Nebraska Omaha rally from deficits of 2-0 and 3-2 to escape with the draw and pick up an extra point by prevailing in the post-overtime shootout. But for CC, now 2-5-3-1 in league play, the single point meant remaining ahead of three other teams and all alone in fifth place in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference standings.
 
"We got great goaltending both nights and picked up four points," said head coach Scott Owens, whose team beat the high-powered Mavericks 4-2 in Friday's series opener. "Are we a little disappointed? Yeah. We need to be picking up some wins here. I felt we had OK rhythm in the overtime, and then it comes to the shootout, and other than the one shootout at St. Cloud, we've struggled there."
 
On a night when senior netminder Josh Thorimbert turned in another sparkling performance, finishing with 41 saves, his teammates staked him to an early 2-0 lead on first-period tallies by senior Michael Morin and freshman Matt Hansen.
 
Colorado College then went up 3-2 on rookie winger Alex Roos' team-leading fourth goal of the season at 11:19 of the third period.
 
"I think it's a good step for our team to finally get some offense in a weekend," said freshman defenseman Jaccob Slavin, who assisted on the red lighters by Morin and Hansen. "There's good chemistry building. I think pucks are starting to go in for us. Goals have been hard to come by so far this year, but if we just keep working hard, working hard in practice on our scoring, it'll start to show during the games."
 
Nebraska Omaha came out buzzing in the first period, out-shooting CC by a 15-8 margin, but it was the Tigers who found the back of the net twice. They drew first blood at 9:28, when Morin backhanded Slavin's rebound past UNO goalie Ryan Massa. Then, with 2:04 left in the stanza, Slavin dished a pass on an up-ice rush to Hansen, who beat Massa with a wrist shot from the right faceoff circle for the first goal and point of his collegiate career.
 
The Mavericks fought back on tallies by Dominic Zombo during a 5-on-3 power play early in the second period and by Johnnie Searfoss at 7:55 of the third.
 
Some hard work by senior left wing Alexander Krushelnyski in the corner paid off with 8:41 left in regulation, when Roos put Colorado College back on top after a feed from Cody Bradley. But UNO's Josh Archibald, who matched Zombo's goal and assist in the contest before scoring the decisive goal in the shootout, responded just 86 seconds later to even the count again.
 
The Tigers, who came up empty on six power plays including a five-minute major that carried over into the third period by more than four minutes, finished with 26 shots on goal.
 
"We really needed a power-play goal in there," said Owens. "We had chances tonight but we didn't look dangerous. But you grow and learn by playing games like this."
 
Nebraska Omaha, which arrived in Colorado Springs leading the NCHC but leaves in second place, two points behind St. Cloud State, launched 44 attempts on target including 18 in the third period.
 
CC, 2-10-3 overall, wraps up the 2013 portion of its schedule and tries to extend its two-game undefeated streak with a non-conference series at the University of Wisconsin next week.