The BG hockey team swept a Central Collegiate Hockey Association opponent, a feat that hasn’t occurred since November 2008.

The Falcons got the best of Lake Superior State University both nights, notching 4-1 and 7-3 victories. The sweep brought BG within one point of the Lakers for seventh place in the CCHA standings.

The wins also extended the Falcons’ win streak at home to five games.

The Falcons had opportunities to put Lake Superior away early Friday night, but could not capitalize on their chances.These were primarily three first period power plays, one of which was a five-minute major.

“I thought we could put the game away early,” said BG Coach Chris Bergeron. “On a night where we had the intensity and the offensive zone time, we need to get the results. I thought early our power play could’ve given us a little bit of a cushion.”

BG controlled play for much of the first period and outshot the Lakers 13-8. The Falcons got on the board first. Brett Mohler tipped Bobby Shea’s shot past Lake Superior goalie Kevin Kapalka seven and a half minutes into the period.

Domenic Monardo tied the game eight minutes later after a scramble in front of the BG net.

Late in the first period, Lakers forward Kellan Lain was given a major penalty and a game disqualification for hitting from behind. Five seconds into the ensuing power play, Ryan Carpenter appeared to give BG the lead with a deflection.

However, the goal was waved off after review for a high stick. BG would not score on the remaining power play time.

Lake Superior matched BG’s intensity for much of the game, but was rebuffed by BG goalie Andrew Hammond. He stopped 25 of 26 shots in the game.

“He was on top of it,” Bergeron said. “When he’s on top of his game, he steers things away, and he put a couple of pucks up in the netting when we needed him to. I thought he was solid tonight.”

BG scored twice more on deflections in front of the net; one came from Dajon Mingo in the second period and the other from Dan DeSalvo in the third.

Mingo’s goal was the flashier of the two. Shea hit him with a perfect pass in the slot, right between the faceoff circles, and Mingo redirected the puck into an open net.

“Guys were open and lanes were there,” Shea said. “Mingo was wide open and I could see him calling for the pass, and I just hit his stick.”

Ben Murphy scored the fourth goal for BG, a power play tally.

The Falcons were three-for-three on the penalty kill, a perfect trend that they carried into Saturday night, as well.

BG killed all four penalties in game two, and added two power play goals in a 7-3 win.

The Lakers scored first in each period. But in the first and third periods, BG answered with a goal of its own within a minute to prevent any buildup of momentum for the Lakers.

“[You have to] stay even keeled, not getting too high or too low,” said BG forward Mark Cooper, who had two goals and two assists in the game. “They obviously score, it’s not good, but you have to get right back out there and stay with your game.”

Cooper scored the goal, 33 seconds after Chris Ciotti tied the game for Lake Superior in the third period, which gave BG momentum for the rest of the period.

Instead of clinging to the one-goal lead for the remainder of the game, the Falcons broke though for three additional third-period goals, which included an empty-netter from Bryce Willliamson.

“It’s all the things that we’ve been though just paying off a little bit,” Bergeron said. “This is by no means finished; we give up a goal and we’re able to just let it go and go back to work. And then we just kept chipping away as the period went on.”

Carpenter and Mingo scored the other goals for BG in the third period; Mingo’s came 21 seconds after Williamson’s empty-netter. Carpenter also had an assist to run his point streak to 12 games.

Mike Sullivan and Brent Tate also scored for BG, while Shea had his second straight two-assist game.

With the dominating nature of the win, as well as getting a sweep against a team they are close to in the standings, the Falcons hope the positive results generated from this weekend is something that can be maintained going forward.

“We’ve been really good at home the past five our six games,” Cooper said. “Our fans have been great and we feed off their momentum; we just have to keep this momentum going.”