EAST LANSING - Scoring five goals in a game is an impressive feat for any hockey team. Okemos did it in the first period.

Then did it again in the second. They didn't need the third.

The Chieftains overpowered, outhusteled, outpaced Grand Ledge/Fowlerville in every descriptor possible to mercy their opponents 10-2, Thursday night at East Lansing's Suburban Ice.

The bleeding started early for the Gladiators. Okemos's Jake Desautel scored first on a rebound less than five minutes into the game. Desautel and the rest of his line kept up the unrelenting pressure, tallying four more goals all within three minutes of each other to take a 5-0 lead into the first intermission. Desautel registered four of the period's five goals, including a shorthanded strike while falling down.

The pressure on the forecheck never let up. When the teams were at even strength, Okemos looked as if it always had an extra man on the ice, constantly circling and finding the open space. It didn't need an extra man. The flew out of the gate in the second period, scoring the first goal of the period less than a minute in. The game was out of reach, but the mercy rule was just coming into view. With 1:32 left in the period, Clay Bullock completed his hat trick and gave Okemos its final 10-2 lead.

Fowlerville's goalie Leonardo Zea played all 34 minutes for the Gladiators, stopping 19 of the 29 shots in a brutal Okemos flurry all game. Okemos's keeper Cameron Zisholz stopped 11 of the 13 shots he faced.

Stars of the game include Jake Desautel who finished the night with five goals, Clay Bullock with a hat trick, and Junior Anders Staky with five assists.