Seven games and seven wins later, the Penn State ACHA Division I Icers accomplished a goal they set for themselves nearly a month ago.

Following a win against No. 3 Ohio on Nov. 12, the Icers became especially determined to win out the rest of the semester. With a sweep of No. 12 Delaware this weekend at the Greenberg Ice Pavilion, that is just what they have done.

Playing without freshman Luke DeLorenzo and senior Justin DePretis, the No. 4 Icers defeated the Blue Hens 6-3 Friday night and 6-2 on Saturday afternoon.

DeLorenzo has been practicing but is being kept out of games since suffering a concussion against Eastern Michigan on Nov. 25. He was the team's leading scorer before the injury.

DePretis was scratched for the weekend as a result of what Icers head coach Joe Battista called "team rules violations."

With the two offensive threats out of action, the Icers' depth shined against what Battista called a "feisty and scrappy" Blue Hens team.

Goals came from eight different Icers over the course of the two games, with two players, senior captain Brett Wilson and sophomore Dave Arcobello, scoring their first goals of the season.

Coming into the weekend, freshman Andrew Magulick, a defenseman who has been playing forward on the power play, had scored once, and Arcobello had yet to score at all this season.

Magulick scored two goals in Friday's game and Arcobello tallied two scores Saturday.

"[Delaware] is not as deep as we are, but they didn't make it easy on us. It's not like we just blew them out," Battista said after Saturday's game. "We earned the two wins this weekend."

The Icers outshot Delaware 44-19 on Friday and 40-14 Saturday, but the Blue Hens (10-9-0) kept both games relatively close while agitating the Icers (14-4-2), who in the second and third periods of both games took some penalties that would lead to Delaware power play goals.

A good number of the Icers' shots on net were produced by Penn State's own power play unit, which featured leading scorer Michael McMullen, sophomore Nate Obringer and freshmen Frank Berry and Brandon Rubeo, who combined for four goals on the weekend.

DePretis and DeLorenzo would normally be on the top power play line, but with both sidelined, Rubeo replaced DeLorenzo and Battista featured sophomore Keith Jordan at the point on the power play instead of going with five forwards. Rubeo also replaced DeLorenzo on the Icers' top even-strength line.

"They're both top players," Berry said of playing without DeLorenzo and DePretis. "We'd love to have them out there but Obringer and Rubeo -- they've been awesome. It didn't slow us down at all."

Saturday, the Icers kept the puck in the Blue Hens defensive zone much of the first period but it was not until 1:10 remaining in the period that the Icers had a number on the scoreboard to show for their efforts. Berry beat Delaware goalie Jim Depfer with a nasty wrist shot for a shorthanded goal off of a pass from Obringer.

"We just read the reports that he's weak going side-to-side, so I tried to trick him going outside and just beat him upstairs," Berry said.

The Icers went on to rattle off five straight goals before Delaware's Kari Marttinen scored a power play goal with 12:18 left in the third period, beating freshman goalie Nick Signet, who was making his first ever Penn State start, glove side to make the score 5-1.

But the damage to the Blue Hens had already been done, and the Icers were well aware of the impending extension of what is now an eight-game winning streak.

"After we beat Ohio we said, 'All right, from here on out we're going to try to run the table.' That's what we wanted to do," Wilson said. "We just wanted to go out and compete in every game and run the table the rest of the way through. We were actually able to do that."