HOUGHTON, Mich. -- Michigan Tech received points from 12 different players, including contributions from all four lines, en route to recording a 4-2 win and series sweep of the defending national champion Wisconsin Badgers in front of a rousing crowd of 3,917 Saturday night at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena. Michael-Lee Teslak (Fernie, B.C.) turned aside 24-of-26 shots to help the Huskies extend their home unbeaten streak to eight games and vault their season record above .500 at 15-14-5 overall.

Tech opened the game with a barrage of goals in the first two minutes of action.

Tyler Shelast struck first just 49 seconds into the contest with his team-leading 14th goal of the year off assists from Malcom Gwilliam (Kamloops, B.C.) and Peter Rouleau (Hancock, Mich.). Rouleau carried the puck into the UW zone on the left wing and threw it on net, where Gwilliam quickly directed the puck over to a waiting Shelast. Shelast buried his chance by beating Badger netminder Brian Elliott top shelf on the stick side. Rouleau improved his team-best scoring total to 6-20--26 on the season, while Gwilliam picked up his eighth helper of the year.

Just 52 seconds later, Justin St. Louis (Calgary, Alta.) tallied his second lamplighter in as many days by converting a wrist shot from the left circle that solved Elliott on the glove side. Lars Helminen (Brighton, Mich.) started the play back in his own zone with a pass ahead to Alex Lord (Magog, Que.), that Lord directed through neutral ice towards the left wing. A streaking St. Louis corralled the puck and unleashed his third marker of the season. Helminen was credited with his 17th assist of the year and Lord earned the second helper of his sophomore campaign.

After the St. Louis goal, Elliott was pulled for backup netminder Shane Connelly after making one save on three shots.

Ryan Angelow (Mississauga, Ont.) took advantage of an opportunistic bounce in front of the Badgers' net to stake the home team to a commanding 3-0 lead at the 3:07 mark of the second stanza. With the puck in the right corner boards inside the Wisconsin offensive zone, Phil Axtell (New Windsor, Md.) relayed a pass that caromed off Ryan Bunger (Sammamish, Wash.) just to Connelly's left. Angelow secured possession and put the bouncing puck up high past Connelly on the stick side. The goal was Angelow's fifth of the year. Bunger and Axtell added their fifth and seventh assists of 2006-07.

Michael Davies provided back-to-back goals to bring the Badgers back to within one goal heading into the second intermission. His first goal came at 5:18 with both teams skating 5-on-5, while his second marker came on the power play at the 19:37 mark of the frame.

Tech held a 28-26 shot advantage prior to the start of the third period.

Co-captain Mike Batovanja (Hinton, Alta.) put a punctuation point on his final regular-season game at the MacInnes with a timely one-timer goal just 19 ticks into the final session. Batovanja's second point of the weekend came as the result of a perfectly-time drop pass from Geoff Kinrade (Nelson, B.C.) at the the point. Batovanja one-timed the pass into the back of the net with a laser from the edge of the left circle. Alternate captain Tyler Skworchinski (Marathon, Ont.), who won the initial draw that helped set up the goal, filed the seventh assist of his final season as a collegian.

Teslak stopped all seven shots he faced in the third to improve his season record to 8-5-3. Connelly turned in 23 saves in 58:19 of action.

Wisconsin (14-17-3, 11-13-2 WCHA) went 1-for-5 on the power play, compared to Tech's 0-for-5 mark with a man advantage.

The Huskies (15-14-5, 10-11-5 WCHA) cap the regular season next Friday (Mar. 2) and Saturday (Mar. 3) at Mariucci Arena against the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Both contests are slated to start at 8:07 p.m. EST.

Notes: Tech is now 10-4-2 at home this season, which equals its best home mark since 1995-96 when the Huskies went 10-4-5 at the MacInnes Student Ice Arena ... MTU's eight-game home unbeaten streak is its longest since 1995-96 when it put together a 10-game unbeaten stretch ... The Huskies are 7-2-3 in their last 12 games ... Tech's 25 points in WCHA competition is its highest such total since the WCHA lowered the number of conference games from 32 to 28 prior to the 1997-98 season ... MTU is 13-7-3 against teams ranked in the top 20 this year ... Tech is above .500 for the first time since Dec. 1 when it held a 6-5-2 mark ... The Huskies have allowed only 18 third-period goals this season, which ranks first nationally ... Tech is tied with Minnesota State for sixth in the WCHA standings, but the Huskies have played two less games than the Mavericks ... MTU has earned at least one point in six of its last seven conference series ... Batovanja, Helminen and Skworchinski were honored in a Senior Night ceremony following tonight's game.

Photo: Michigan Tech's three seniors -- Mike Batovanja, Lars Helminen and Tyler Skworchinski -- pose for a picture after helping the Huskies secure a sweep of the defending national champion Wisconsin Badgers this weekend at the John MacInnes Student Ice Arena.

Courtesy: MTU Photo Services