Game Breakdown

First Quarter
Westminster came out of the gate strong, scoring five unanswered goals to open the RMAC Tournament semifinal. Daxton Jensen scored twice — at 11:21 and 6:06 — while Harrison Edwards, Luke Sillstrop, and Cale Gunter each added a goal to push the lead to 5-0. Northwest Nazarene scored twice in the final minute on goals from Colton Altimus and Caleb Mainwaring to cut the deficit to 5-2, but Hayden Hansen answered with 16 seconds remaining to send Westminster into the second leading 6-2.

Second Quarter
NNU opened the second quarter with three straight goals — two from Hank Riddle and one from Colton Altimus — to pull within one at 6-5. Duke DeVault answered for Westminster at 7:29 to push the lead back to 7-5, but Kellen Young pulled NNU within one at 7-6 just over two minutes later. The Griffins responded with four consecutive goals from Kaydin Berry, Cale Gunter, Ridge Crouch, and Harrison Edwards to close the half leading 11-6.

Third Quarter
Northwest Nazarene opened the third on a Kellen Young man-up goal to make it 7-11, but Westminster quickly regained momentum with five straight — Camden Stanley, Ridge Crouch, Theo Le, and back-to-back tallies from Tate Craig and Luke Sillstrop at 1:34 and 1:24 — to push the lead to 16-7. NNU closed the quarter with back-to-back goals from Colton Altimus and Kellen Young, but Westminster led 16-9 heading to the fourth.

Fourth Quarter
Hayden Hansen, assisted by Theo Le, extended the lead to 17-9 just 24 seconds into the final frame. Duke DeVault added a man-up goal at 10:32 to make it 18-9, before Drew Guerrero scored a man-down goal for NNU at 10:03 to pull the score to 18-10. Boden Laforce and Theo Le — the latter scoring man-down — closed out the scoring to seal a 20-10 Westminster victory and a trip to the RMAC Championship game.

Griffin Performances
Daxton Jensen — 2G, 3 shots
Hayden Hansen — 2G, 4 shots
Ridge Crouch — 2G, 1A, 9 shots
Luke Sillstrop — 2G, 1A, 6 shots
Duke DeVault — 2G, 1A, 4 shots
Harrison Edwards — 2G, 1A, 5 shots
Theo Le — 2G, 1A, 2 shots
Cale Gunter — 2G, 4 shots
Kaydin Berry — 1G, 1 shot
Camden Stanley — 1G, 1 shot
Tate Craig — 1G, 1A, 2 shots
Boden Laforce — 1G, 1A, 3 shots
Ben Weber — 2A
Christian Jones (GK) — 13 saves, 10 GA (60:00)
Westminster out-shot Northwest Nazarene 50-42 and won 19 of 33 faceoffs.

Up Next
Westminster advances to the RMAC Championship game on Sunday, April 26 at 1 p.m. MT at Dumke Field against Concordia University Irvine.​​