The Saints improve to 21-7-3 overall and won their first ECAC regular-season title and the automatic NCAA berth that goes with it as Princeton tied Colgate, the only team with a chance to catch the Saints, in a league game Friday night. St. Lawrence concludes its ECAC season against Dartmouth Saturday night.

Wayne State, now 11-15-2 in its first year of college hockey and with an all-freshman lineup, gave the Saints a game, although SLU did sit out its top five scorers Friday night.

Dusty Kingston opened the scoring for the Warriors as he picked up a rebound of a shot by defenseman Keith Stanich and tucked it back past Saint goalie Jeremy Symington at 9:33 of the first period.

The Saints tied the score at 8:15 of the second period when freshman Blair Clarance put back a rebound for his first collegiate goal, and freshman center Jim Lorentz put the Saints in front on a power play 1:11 later.

Jason Durbin tied the score again for the Warriors when he picked up a loose puck and broke in on Symington for a shorthanded goal at 16:34.

Durbin came out of the penalty box just 1:12 into the third period and scored on another breakaway to give the Warriors a 3-2 lead, but senior Jason Windle tied the game at 3-3 on an end to end rush at 2:46, and DiLauro put the Saints in front for good at 16:04.

Jack O'Brien added his fourth goal of the season, an empty-netter, with 39 seconds to play to complete the scoring.

Symington finished with 33 saves for the Saints while Marc Carlson had 34 for Wayne State.