DE PERE – St. Norbert College swept Milwaukee School of Engineering in what proved to be a playoff clincher for the Green Knights in a Northern Collegiate Hockey League series.  

The Green Knights (12-6, 8-2 NCHL) secured a spot in the NCHL Playoffs thanks to a 9-4 win at Resch Olympic Pavilion as St. Norbert completed its fourth sweep in conference play this season.  

On Tuesday, St. Norbert won a tight 5-3 battle down in Milwaukee. Stats for the first game of the series were unavailable at the time of writing.  

In the second game, the Raiders scored early at 2:17 in the first period, but the Green Knights responded with Mick Gilbert's first goal of the year at 3:08. St. Norbert tied the game at 2-2 at 15:01 in the same period on a Johannes Vaananen power-play goal, while Chaz DelMarcelle's goal at 16:12 put the Green Knights up 3-2 at the end of the first period.  

Goals from Will Mullooly, Jake Kunz and Sebastian Vaananen in the second made it 6-3, while two goals from DelMarcelle in nine seconds to open the third earned him his first career hat trick. Brennon Kraft scored St. Norbert's ninth goal at 9:10 in the third period.  

Anders Smith made 28 saves for St. Norbert.  

The NCHL Playoffs will be held in early February at the Ponds of Brookfield. St. Norbert's opponent will be confirmed later in the season.