Hosting the St. Norbert College JV for the second straight day, the Aurora University hockey team defeated the visitors 5-4 on Sunday afternoon at the Fox Valley Ice Arena.

AU scored the games first goal 7:40 into the game when Patrick Sofer beat the Norbert goalkeeper off an assist from Joe Jablonski. Just 32 seconds later though Norbert forward Joe Condon took advantage of a defensive miscue at the AU blue line to create a 2-0 against Spartan goalkeeper Paul Favaro. Condon made an impressive move with his stick handling and beat Favaro to tie the game.

The Spartans responded a few minutes later with a power play goal from Ryan Davlantes with an assist coming from Jablonski. AU's Robert Gervino scored later in the first period to round out the scoring and give AU a 3-1 lead. He was assisted by Andrew Bergquist and Jonathon Cirone.

The second period saw only one goal tallied with Spartan Ben Winter scoring at 16:50 with an assist to Conor Jonasson giving AU a 4-1 lead that would remain the score at the second intermission.

The third period provided some intrigue and excitement to the game. Bergquist started the wild period by scoring unassisted 1:28 into the period.

Leading 5-1, the Spartans allowed a power play goal at 4:25 and then while on the power play, the Spartans allowed the short handed goal at 7:26 that pulled St. Norbert within two at 5-3 with lots of game time to play.

The visitors made the game more interesting when they scored at 17:26 to cut the Spartan lead to one at 5-4. AU held off a late Norbert barrage to win 5-4.

Each team finished the day going one for three on the power play with Norbert tallying a short handed goal. Spartan goalkeeper Paul Favaro had 16 saves in the win.

With the win, AU is now 5-4 overall in 2014 and 0-3 in the NCAA. Next action for the Spartan hockey team comes on Wednesday, November 26 when they travel to Marian University. Game time is set for 7:00 p.m. in Fond du lac, Wisconsin.