Freshman Sydney Magnuson of Marian University women’s hockey and senior Daunte Fortner of Marian University men’s hockey have been named the Sabres of the Month for January.

Magnuson (Neillsville, Wis.) continued her strong first campaign with Marian women’s hockey posting a dominating month of January.  She finished the month with a 1.24 goals-against average to go with a .954 save percentage.  Magnuson started in five games during January and allowed multiple goals in just one of them to go with a pair of shutouts.  Her first shutout came in a 0-0 tie in the opener of LFC where she stopped all 41 shots she saw, her third performance with at least 40 saves this season.  She then had a 25-save shutout in another 0-0 tie in teh finale with Lawrence for her fifth shutout of the season, a single-season Marian record.  Magnuson also earned an NCHA Star of the Week award after leading Marian to a 2-1 overtime victory against Aurora where she made 22 saves with a .957 save percentage.

Fortner (Kingsford, Mich.) had a monster month recording 13 points over 10 games with eight goals and five assists.  After going scoreless in the first two games of the month, Fortner recorded at least one point in every game the rest of January except for one.  He had three multi-point games with two of the three being four-point efforts.  Fortner earned an NCHA Star of the Week after a multi-goal game against Augsburg followed by a four-point game in the opener against LFC where he had a goal with three assists.  A couple weekends later, Fortner had a four-point game in the finale against Lawrence where he recorded the first hat trick of his career.  Fortner currently ranks fourth in the NCHA for goals scored and seventh for total points.

Both Sabre hockey programs take on Trine with the women on the road February 7-8 and the men hosting the Thunder February 8-9.