The ISU men’s hockey team has been providing some hot scoring at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena.

Junior forward Travis Fast scored a hat trick and six different players tallied goals as the No. 4 Cyclones defeated Kent State 5-1 on Friday night and 7-1 on Saturday night.

With the weekend sweep, Iowa State is 12-6-1 overall and 7-2-1 in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League (CSCHL). It was the team’s second consecutive home-weekend sweep, having outscored its opponents 25-8 in the last four games.

Head coach Al Murdoch credits the fans for the sweep and for how his team has finished their opponents.

“It makes it easy when you coach when you’ve got good crowds,” Murdoch said. “We’ve been putting teams away. That’s four games in a row where we’ve been putting them away in the third period, and I like that.”

In Friday’s win, the Cyclones had power play goals from Fast and Scott Hagen. Rob Tauer, Jason Brown and Zach Peterson all scored for the Cyclones as they outshot Kent State 45-18.

Iowa State got things rolling in the first period Saturday, scoring three goals in the first six minutes of the game.

Freshman forward Kyle Norris got the Cyclones’ first goal, assisted by Brown. A few minutes later, Brown, a freshman, put the puck past the Kent State goaltender. Sophomore defender David Moline then fired a wrister from the ISU offensive blue line and the puck got past the Kent State goaltender’s glove to make it 3-0.

“We got off to a good start and just kept the ball rolling the whole game,” Norris said. “I just ripped the shot as soon as I got it and it went into the net.”

Neither team got on the board in the second period, despite the Cyclones’ many scoring opportunities.

Moline got his second goal of the game as he fired another shot early in the third period. The Cyclones capitalized again as Fast scored on a 2-on-1 short-handed play with 14:03 left in the final period. Just a couple of minutes after his first goal, Fast made it 5-0 with his second score on an assist from Travis Denzel and Drew Schade. Kent State had its first and only goal with 4:17 remaining in the game.

Late in the third period, Fast captured the hat trick on a 1-on-1 opportunity as he fired the puck in to make it 7-1.

“It was pretty much all my linemates. They hook me up with some great passes,” Fast said. “If I don’t score on those, I don’t know what I do. It was just great passes.”

Iowa State outshot Kent State in Saturday’s game 44-10. Iowa State will travel to No. 8 Ohio this weekend and No. 9 Minot State on the weekend of Nov. 21

“They’re going to be long road trips. But they’ll be good for us,” Fast said. “They’re really physical teams. The key is keeping our heads up, playing physically and staying with both teams.”