St. John’s (5-1, MAPHL), led by Quinn Kennedy’s goal and four assists, struck fast and often to defeat Gonzaga (4-4, MAPHL), 7-4, on Wednesday at Rockville Ice Arena.

Kennedy opened the scoring just over a minute into the game and Andrew Depoy scored nine seconds later. Tommy Lokken made it 3-0 five minutes after that and Jesse Horaceck finished the 4-0 outburst with his first of the game, both while Gonzaga’s Luca Docking was serving a five-minute major penalty for boarding.

Docking got the Eagles on the board early in the second period, but Dimitry Kebreau scored the first of his two goals to regain the home team’s four-goal lead.

Gonzaga got the next two goals to get to 5-3, but Kebreau and Horaceck each got their second goals in the third period to put the game out of reach.