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WINONA, Minn. — New day, same score, same outcome — much to the delight of Saint Mary's University men's hockey coach Bill Moore.

The Cardinals, coming off a heart-stopping, 2-1 nonconference win over the Foresters on Friday, SMU was at it again on Saturday.

And the end result … Another 2-1 Cardinal win.

"I thought we had a pretty solid weekend," said Moore, whose team has now won three straight in improving to 5-5-0 overall. "I wouldn't say we played our best, but we did what we had to do to get two wins — and that's the bottom line."

What the Cardinals did best — both Friday and Saturday — was kill penalties.

A day after holding Lake Forest 0-for-7 with the man advantage, SMU kept the Foresters off the board with the man advantage again on Saturday, forcing Lake Forest into an 0-for-5 showing on the power play Saturday.

"Our penalty kill was the difference all weekend," said Moore. "Everyone did an outstanding job — to hold a team without a power-play goal on 13 chances is impressive."

The Foresters wasted no time getting on the scoreboard, as Jason McAloon beat SMU goalie Phil Heinle (York, Pa.) just 1:46 into the opening period.

The lead lasted all of 30 seconds, however, as Dylan Dock (River Falls, Wis.) rifled a wrist shot past Lake Forest goalie Billy Cooper to knot the game at 1-1.

After a scoreless second period — thanks in large part to the play of Heinle, who recorded 15 second-period shots, including stopping a McAloon breakaway while the Cardinals were on the power play midway through the period — SMU would take the lead for good early in the game's final stanza.

The Cardinals broke the tie two minutes into the third period, as Andrew Ketterer (Peoria, Ill.) became the fourth Cardinal player in a 24-hour period to net his first goal of the season — joining Dock, Jonathon Elliott (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) and Scott Deur (Big Rapids, Mich.), the latter two having accounted for SMU's two goals in Friday's 2-1 victory — drilling a slap shot past a screened Cooper to give SMU the lead for good.

Heinle — making his first collegiate start — settled down after giving up a goal on just the Foresters' second shot on goal, stopping the last 29 shots in collecting the 30-save win.

The Cardinals are now off until Dec. 10, when they travel to Appleton, Wis., for a 7 p.m. nonconference game against Lawrence. It will be SMU's final game before the Christmas break.