Seniors Darren and Darcy Anderson went out with a bang on Sunday, winning their final game at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena to capture the Central States Collegiate Hockey League’s tournament title.

“It gave me chills,” Darcy Anderson said. “Darren and I were both speechless. We knew it was our last game, and we just tried to put our whole heart into it.”

Darcy Anderson, a first-team league all-star, netted a hat trick and brother Darren, the 1999 CSCHL league MVP, scored a first period goal as Iowa State routed No. 3 Michigan-Dearborn, 10-4.

“I’ve loved my years here at Iowa State,” Darren Anderson said. “We wanted to win it all and go out in style and the guys just came out to play. Everybody did a helluva job.”

Freshmen Glenn Detulleo and Martin Birch added hat tricks of their own as the Cyclones jumped all over their opponents early and maintained momentum throughout the contest.

“We had three hat tricks tonight,” Darren Anderson said. “One guy from every line scored a hat trick, and that’s what championship teams are made of.”

The Cyclones came out strong in the first period, netting four goals before the first buzzer.

Darcy Anderson scored a pair of goals in the opening period, including the first of the game, and Darren Anderson and Birch each added one before the first 20 minutes were up.

Michigan seemed to get on the board with a goal of its own as the final buzzer sounded, but the score was disallowed, the officials ruling that it had gone in after time expired.

The Wolves, who played a more intimidating physical style than ISU during the first two periods, finally scored just inside the 16-minute mark of the second.

A second goal was scored in rapid succession and a Mike Ogbourne ISU score was disallowed, so the Wolves were flying and it looked as if they might climb back into contention.

A penalty against UMD, however, set up Detulleo’s first score on the power play and the Cyclones were back in control.

Detulleo made the lead 6-2 with another quick score before a Michigan goal and 5-minute cross-checking penalty to Trevor Turnbull gave the Wolves an extended power play.

“I went to play my guy on the shot, and I hit him, went down with him and ended up landing on his head,” Turnbull said. “It was nothing intentional or major, but I seem to be getting a lot of penalties lately.”

Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity, however, Michigan faltered. Starting netminder Jason Hubenschmidt was yanked in favor of Chuck Schervish, who immediately turned over the puck in Michigan’s defensive zone.

Birch intercepted the errant pass and let a slapshot go from just inside the blue line to extend the ISU lead to 7-2.

In the third period, the Wolves tacked on their fourth goal, but Detulleo, Birch and Darcy Anderson each completed their respective hat tricks to end the game 10-4.

Detulleo scored early after Brian Paolello deflected a Michigan pass and fed the puck to him near center ice. The diminutive center blazed in on a breakaway and scored glove-side.

“These guys beat us in the tournament last year so a lot of this was payback,” Detulleo said. “You can’t complain anytime you get a hat trick, but to do it in a championship game was great.”

Birch completed his hat trick a few minutes later while lying on the ice. After being run into the UMD net, he rolled over just in time to chip in a rebound to further extend ISU’s lead.

“I’m a freshman,” Birch said, “but they didn’t bring me in to play like a freshman. I just try to play as hard as I can every game.”

Darcy Anderson’s final home goal of his career was also the final goal of the CSCHL’s final tournament game of 1999.

“To tell you the truth,” Darcy said, “I was after it. I had two goals, and I thought how nice it would be to get the hat trick and go out in style.”

The senior received an impossible pass from Birch and scored shorthanded on the breakaway.

“Marty Birch is a great player,” Darcy Anderson said. “We broke away together and he had to feed it through with pinpoint accuracy and he put it right on the money. It was a golden pass.”

The Cyclones, despite maintaining a hefty lead for the entire game, were initially surprised by the rough style of their opponents, but turned the tide near the halfway mark of the second period.

Winger Jesse Monell was one of the first Cyclones to match the Wolves in intensity, dropping antagonist Jayme McKay in a corner scuffle to earn himself a two-minute roughing minor and a 10-minute misconduct.

“They liked to use their sticks a lot and tried to antagonize us into penalties,” Monell said. “[McKay] saw me go into the corner and gave me a shot to the head so I took him down with a Superfly.”

Monell chuckled at his own pro wrestling reference but added that the team had really had enough of McKay and someone needed to do something. Soon, the rest of the Cyclones were playing with increased aggression.

“We didn’t expect them to hit as much as they did,” junior defenseman Greg Jones said. “When they did come at us, it was a little bit of a shock, but we adapted to it. We like to hit.”

Dan LaVoie was again stellar in net, turning aside a number of big shots and keeping the Wolves off the board until after ISU had four goals of its own.

“I’m just ecstatic,” LaVoie said. “This was one step, and we have one more to go. I’d trade them all in for the nationals.

“I started a little slow, but I’ve been playing a lot better lately and I’m just happy to be doing what I can to help out the team.”

Michigan-Dearborn had lost only eight games on the season going into Sunday’s contest by a total of 11 points, never falling by more than two goals.

“We just picked a bad day to have our worst game of the year,” the Wolves’ coach Joe Aho said. “Iowa State came out flying, and we just couldn’t hold them off. We didn’t play well.”

Following the championship game, seniors Darren and Darcy Anderson were named to the league’s all-star team, as was Jones. Head coach Al Murdoch was also named the league’s co-coach of the year.

After a two-game homestand next weekend against Missouri, the Cyclones travel to Delaware for the ACHA national tournament and a shot at their first national title in seven years.

“We’ve had a lot of peaks this season,” Murdoch said. “Our first was the [preseason] Mud Run, then we had the Chicago College Classic, then the Penn State tournament and now this tournament. But we’re still looking to really peak ten days from now and for four days in a row at nationals.”

“We’re going to make it count this year,” Darcy Anderson said.