MARQUETTE — Four goals wasn’t enough for the Northern Michigan University hockey team when power plays kept getting paid off in No. 19 Bemidji State’s 5-4 CCHA hockey victory on Friday night.

Each team had five power play chances, and most importantly, both teams scored three goals on those chances.

The visiting Beavers got the last laugh, scoring the only two goals of the third period to first tie the game and then win it.

Lukas Sillinger scored the game-tying goal unassisted just over two minutes into the final period, then almost exactly nine minutes later, Jakub Lewandowski scored on a power play.

Bemidji also scored first with a power-play goal by Tyler Kirkup 8:38 into the game. Then the goals came about two minutes apart.

Northern’s Mikey Colella tied it 1-1 with a power-play goal 83 seconds after Kirkup’s tally, Andre Ghantous and Joseph Nardi getting assists. The goal was described in an account from NMU Sports Information as a reunion of a top line last season as Nardi set up a feed to Ghantous, who skated it over the blue line, sending the puck cross ice to Colella, who ripped a shot off inside the far circle.

But Bemidji needed just 2:55 to go ahead with a goal by Kyle Looft.

The Wildcats’ AJ Vanderbeck made it 2-2 another 2:03 later with an even-strength tally assisted by Hank Crone and Hampus Eriksson. On this goal, Vanderbeck sent the puck to Crone at the near boards by the Wildcats bench. Then it was tapped back to Vanderbeck, and with two defenders closing in, he found a shooting line and fired the puck high past goalie Michael Carr.

Finally, BSU took another lead 71 seconds after Vanderbeck’s goal with a power-play tally.

Northern freshman goalie Charlie Glockner stopped 11 shots in the opening period as Bemidji held a 14-7 shots edge.

NMU’s Vincent de Mey tied the game for the third time not quite eight minutes into the second period with his team’s second power-play tally that was assisted by Colella and Ghantous. De Mey gathered a rebound and backhanded the puck home from the bottom of the left circle at a wide angle.

And barely two minutes after that, Crone gave Northern its first and only lead of the night with yet another power play goal assisted by Eriksson and Vanderbeck. Crone picked up a pass from Eriksson and carried the puck to the far boards, faked out three defenders and moved in on the goal. Despite being tangled with a Bemidji defender, Crone lifted the puck and got it over the shoulder of Carr.

Glockner finished with 29 saves, while teammate Rico DiMatteo had one.

BSU’s Michael Carr and Mattias Sholl split duties almost evenly with 23 saves in all, 14 by Sholl.

Information compiled by Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee. His email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.