Hunter McKown, Tyler Coffey and Stanley Cooley each had a goal and an assist to lead Colorado College past Arizona State, 4-2, Saturday night at Robson Arena in the final game of the 2021 calendar year.
 
Dominic Basse finished with 27 saves as the Tigers salvaged a weekend split with the Sun Devils and gave Peter Mannino the victory as acting head coach.
 
For the second consecutive night, Arizona State opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal. Colin Thiesen stole the puck in the CC zone, skated down the right boards for a clean breakaway and beat Basse just eight seconds after Sean Dhooge was called for hooking and 1:19 into the contest.
 
Brian Hawkinson, playing his 100^th career game, evened things up with his fourth goal of the season at the 5:37 mark of the opening frame. Connor Mayer sent a shot that hit off the end boards and glanced off Hawkinson's stick before hitting off the end boards and glancing off Kraws' pad into the net. The puck barely cleared the goal line, and after a review, the officials deemed it a good goal.
 
The Tigers (4-11-3) grabbed their first lead of the weekend when Coffey fired a wrister from the high slot that beat Kraws high on his glove side 3:03 into the second period. McKown then scored the game-winner and made it 3-1 just 1:11 later with a spectacular wrist shot if his own from the left circle that snuck just inside the far post and chased Kraws (nine saves) from the game.
 
Benji Eckerle cut the CC lead to 3-2 at the 7:04 mark when he deflected a shot by Jack Judson past Basse, but that was the last goal the sophomore netminder allowed en route to his fourth victory of the season.
 
The Sun Devils (10-10-0) had a chance to even the score later in the period when CC's Tommy Middleton was whistled for a five-minute major for boarding just past the midway point of the frame. However, ASU's Jack Becker was called for slashing 17 seconds later to wipe out two minutes of the Sun Devil power play, and the Tigers killed off the remaining 2:43 seconds after Becker returned to the ice.
 
CC also killed off a Chase Foley penalty with 34 seconds remaining in the second period that spilled over to the beginning of the third, then Cooley put the game away with an empty-net goal with 1:41 left in the contest.
 
"We were happy with our overall effort tonight," Mannino said. "I'm proud of the guys. We talked about moving in the right direction. We want to be in the offensive zone and we did that tonight. Going into break we wanted to finish it the right way."
 
McKown, who collected his second career-game-winning goal, led the Tigers with five shots, followed by Hawkinson with four. Mayer equaled his career high with a pair of assists
 
"Hunter McKown had a really strong and smart game tonight," Mannino added. "Dom Basse had some outstanding saves at crucial moments keeping us where we needed to be."
 
The Tigers return to action in the NCHC against Miami University, Jan. 7-8, in Oxford, Ohio.