Assumption handled Saint Michael's 6-2 in regulation, pulling away with a three-goal second period that turned a one-goal game into a rout. The Greyhounds scored in all three periods; the Purple Knights managed one in each of the first two and none thereafter.
Assumption led 2-1 after twenty minutes, a period in which both teams found the net and neither established separation. The middle frame decided it: a 3-1 period put the Greyhounds up 5-2, and Saint Michael's did not score again. A single third-period goal made it 6-2.
The number that matters is the second period — 3-1 — which accounted for half of Assumption's output and the last of Saint Michael's. Shut out over the final twenty minutes, the Purple Knights finished with two goals across sixty.