Yale's Kenny Agostino snapped a scoreless deadlock with the game's first goal at 12:40 of the second period, sending the top-ranked Elis to a 4-1 victory over St. Lawrence at Ingalls Rink Saturday night.

Yale improves to 17-2-0 overall and 11-1-0 in ECAC play while the Saints are now 7-12-4 and 3-8-0 in ECAC play. SLU finished its eight-game road trip with a 3-4-1 record and will play Princeton and Quinnipiac in its first home games since Dec. 18 next weekend.

The Saints came out strong in Saturday's game, outshooting Yale 12-6, but could not solve goaltender Ryan Rondeau who stopped all 12 shots in his busiest period of a 29-save night.

"We played with a lot of energy and came out hard, but Rondeau made some good saves and we had a couple of other good scoring chances go wide," said Saint associate head coach Bob Prier, who was filling in for head coach Joe Marsh behind the bench for the second straight night. "Yale is a highly skilled team and explosive offensively. We saw that as the game went along, and they are not a team you can get into a hole against and try to come back.."

Agostino scored the game's first goal from Antoine Laganiere at 12:40 of the second period and Mike Matczak scored his second of the season from Jimmy Martin and Brendon Mason 4:22 into the third to give the Elis a 2-0 lead. It went to 3-0 at 8:44 of the third when Kenny Agostino scored his second of the weekend and seventh of the year from Chris Cahill and Andrew Miller on a power play.

Kyle Flanagan scored\ his eighth of the season from Aaron Bogosian and Greg Carey with 1:38 to go to, putting the Saints on the board, but Yale sealed the victory with an empty net goal by Brian O'Neill from Mason and Cahill with 36 seconds to play.

Saint goalie Matt Weninger finished with 32 saves for the Saints in another solid effort as the Saints were outshot 36-29 with 10 of the 36 Yale shots coming on seven power play opportunities.