that continued Saturday night, but the Mocs found a way to win, taking a 3-2 shootout win aver Arkansas in the Snake Pit.

"The goaltending for them was unbelievable," Monroe coach Brian Curran said. "This was the exact same game we had (Friday), except they got four goals and tonight they just got two."

the Mocs outshot the GlacierCats 43-19, but found themselves tied 2-2 at the end of regulation.

In the shootout, Monroe goalie Marten Engren and captain Matt Cressman provided the heroics.

Engren stoned the final two GlacierCat shooters, while Cressman put the puck past Arkansas goalie Christian Soucy for the game winner.

"Pretty much everyone in the rink knowns I'm going there," Cressman said. "We've been really frustrated for the past four of five games. We're outshooting teams pretty handily, yet we're losing games."

The win kept Monroe in first place in the Western Professional Hockey League's Eastern Division, and ended a two-game losing streak.

Once again Monroe had scratch for an answer to Soucy. The Mocs had plenty of opportunities, but Soucy made save after save foiling numberous scoring chances.

He stopped 41 Monroe shots, a night after saving 42 shots the Mocs took.

"Sooner or later the breaks are going to start going our way," Curran said. "To get that many chances, sooner or later they're going to go in. We just can't get frustrated.

The Mocs had no answer for Soucy until late in the second period. Trailing 1-0, and on the power play, Monroe finally got the puck past their nemesis.

Defenseman Duncan Dalmao kept the puck in the zone. He found forward Lukas Smital alone in the slot next to the goal.

Soucy rotated to Smital's side to protect the net, but Smital sent a pass to Kelvin Solari, who was alone in front of the net. Solari took advantage of the opening, and fired the puck into the open net, kntting the score 1-1.

"That's just the way I like to play," Solari said. "I get into a fight then I go and get a goal."

"Dalmao was working hard and he kept the puck in. He fed Smital, who fed me in front of a wide-open net. It was just a matter of time before we got a goal."

the same thing happened in the first period for Arkansas. Center Brian Secord found the back of an open net, as the penalty-killing unit of the Mocs broke down.

Secord took a pass from defenseman Joel Dezainde and buried it past Monroe goalie Marten Engren. the goal held up, as Arkansas held a 1-0 lead despite being outshot in the first period 21-5.

In the third period David Butler, a recent addition to the Mocs, added his second goal of the season to give Monroe a 2-1 lead. Butler sent the puck to the front of the net, but it hit Soucy's skate and bounced into the Arkansas net.

"That's been a long time coming," Cressman said. "\we haven't gotten a break like that in a while. But if you work hard breaks like that are going to go your way."

Still Arkansas had life. Brian Pellerin redirected the puck past Engren to tie the score at 2-2 and send it into a shootout. His goal came with just 2:07 remaining in the third period.