I’d argue Colorado College needed this win more than any of its other Saturday-night victories this November.

After a demoralizing loss to No. 11 Air Force on Friday (the Falcons, in case you missed it, are no longer undefeated after Saturday’s 4-1 loss to Denver), the Tigers not only needed to bounce back, but they needed to pick up another non-conference win.

Remember, CC tied twice at Clarkson earlier this season and missed a chance against Air Force to pick up PairWise points against a team with a great RPI.

With Saturday’s 3-2 win over Colgate, the Tigers have a shot at a winning (5-1-2) non-conference record, which is very important in March. (CC concludes its non-conference schedule against Sacred Heart on Dec. 19-20.)

CC is definitely glad to be done with November, a month in which they split every weekend and ended with a 5-4 record.

For what it’s worth:

**Slightly improved pressure around the crease: “Both of those goals in the second period were the result of us going hard to the net, which is something we’d gotten away from,” coach Scott Owens said. “And it resulted in a goal, especially in the last minute of the period.”

**Defenseman Kris Fredheim stepped up with captain Jake Gannon (finger fracture) out of the lineup: “His penalty killing has really gotten stabilized,” coach Scott Owens said of Fredheim. “His five-on-five play has been good. For a defenseman like ‘Freddy,’ except when he scores the odd goal, he’s playing his best when you don’t notice him much.”

**Center Tyler Johnson scored his first goal of the season playing for a new power-play unit, which featured senior Scott McCulloch, freshman Tim Hall, sophomore Ryan Lowery and junior Nate Prosser.

**Random fact: The short-handed goal by Colgate came on a rush steered by two Dallas Stars draft picks, David McIntyre (5th round, 2006) and Austin Smith (5th round, 2007). Goaltender Richard Bachman (4th round, 2006) said he knows both of them from development camps and was happy to get them back later in the game.

**A last Bachmanism: He said the last time he was pulled from a game was playing for Cedar Rapids (USHL). The culprit? Current teammate right wing Stephen Schultz, a scratch on Saturday. “Schultz lit me up for a hat-trick,” he said.

Check out Sunday’s Gazette for more on the game and also how goaltender Richard Bachman bounced back from Friday’s game.

Colorado College
21 Sweatt — 14 Rau — 22 Walsky
26 McCulloch — 19 Vlassopoulos — 18 Overman
23 Hall — 17 Johnson — 25 Testwuide
5 DeBoer — 20 Dineen — 16 Civitarese

11 Connelly — 15 Prosser
10 Guentzel — 24 Lowery
3 Behrend — 7 Fredheim

30 Bachman
31 O’Connell
1 O’Brien

Colgate
26 McIntyre — 11 Riley — 19 Bogdanich
13 Brisebois — 9 Smith — 21 Williams
14 Prockow — 28 Cox — 22 DeBello
17 Firman — 18 Corrin — 23 Carty

7 St. Pierre — 24 Sloane
6 Poplawski — 4 McPherson
20 Fredricks — 27 Anderson

1 Evin
40 Long
33 Bessette

Colgate 1 0 1 2

Colorado College 0 2 1 3

First period – 1. COL, Smith (McIntyre), 13:53, sh. Penalties – Fredricks, COL (hooking), 6:35; Brisebois, COL (tripping), 12:49; DeBello, COL (slashing), 18:49; Connelly, CC (tripping), 19:52.

Second – 2. CC, Sweatt (Walsky, Rau), 6:11. 3. CC, Fredheim (Dineen, Testwuide), 19:06. Penalties – Civitarese, CC (boarding), 7:55; Fredricks, COL (interference), 8:35; Behrend, CC (hooking), 12:30.

Third – 4. CC, Johnson (McCulloch, Hall), 5:30, pp. 5. COL, Bogdanich (Riley, Anderson), 5:48. Penalties – St. Pierre, COL (tripping), 4:33.

Shots on goal – COL 7-9-10-26. CC 3-13-9-25. Power-play Opportunities – COL 0 of 3; CC 1 of 5. Goalies – COL, Evin 3-11-8 (25 shots-22 saves), 1-1. CC, Bachman 6-9-9 (26-24), 8-3-3. A – 5,971. T – 2:06. Referees – Don Adam, Butch Mousseaux. Linesmen – Scott Staudte, Greg Cook.