Box Score Senior attackman Robbie Stern struck for six goals to lead Colorado College to a 15-8 victory over Whittier College in the first of two meetings between the long-time West Region rivals on Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
 
CC improved to 10-1 and now has won 12 of the last 13 games against the Poets.
 
Stern scored three times during a 5-0 run that gave the Tigers a 5-3 lead 1:03 into the second quarter.
 
After Nate Heritage pulled Whittier to within one with his second goals of the game, Colorado College scored eight consecutive goals to take control of the contest.
 
Sophomore attacker Coby Petau ignited the surge with a man-up tally midway through the second frame, and junior midfielder Tyler Borko scored nine seconds later off a feed from junior midfielder Aaron Maslow.
 
Markers from Stern, junior midfielder Tom Haller and Maslow made the score 10-4 after 30 minutes, and then the Tigers added the only three goals of the third quarter.
 
Haller's second tally gave CC a seven-goal lead, and then Petau added two more man-up goals after the Poets were flagged for a pair of penalties with 3:48 to play in the period.
 
Whittier trimmed its deficit to 13-6 when sophomores Connor Dee and Cooper Champagne scored in a span of eight seconds early in the fourth quarter, but Stern squashed any thoughts of a Poet comeback when he scored twice in 14 seconds midway through the quarter.
 
Sophomore goaltender Andrew Harwood stopped nine shots before giving way to freshman PJ Offner with 2:32 remaining in the game.
 
The Tigers won 16 of 27 faceoffs and finished with a 43-31 edge in ground balls. The additional possessions resulted in a 54-27 advantage in total shots.
 
Freshman Drake Gillis led the CC defense with a season-high five caused turnovers. 
 
Sophomore midfielder Parker Woo won 11 of 16 faceoffs and grabbed six ground balls, a total that was matched by senior defender Riley Hoffman and sophomore midfielder Max Rieser.
 
Dee led the Poets with five goals, two of which were scored in the first period to help his team jump out to an early 3-0 lead.
 
Senior goaltender Alex Cramer stopped 19 shots for Whittier, which dropped to 4-5.
 
Colorado College will play host to Whittier on Saturday, April 28, in the annual battle for the Locker-Stabler Cup.
 
The Tigers are idle until Friday, April 20, when they begin a two-game East Coast road trip at Elizabethtown College.