Bowling Green State University
Alaska
Hockey Edged By Alaska Fairbanks, 3-2
November 26, 2000 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 26, 2000
Fairbanks, Alaska -
The Bowling Green State University hockey team played its sixth one-goal (or less) game in the last seven contests Saturday night at Alaska Fairbanks. The Nanooks scored once in each period to defeat the Falcons 3-2.
BG ends its month-long six-game road trip with a 1-3-2 mark with all three losses coming by one goal.
The Falcons will take a 2-7-3 overall and a CCHA record of 2-5-3 into next weekend's (Dec. 1-2) home series against Michigan State.
In Saturday's setback at UAF, the Nanooks scored the lone first period goal (at the 15:46 mark) when Jim Lawrence scored his third of the weekend off assists from Cam Keith and Blaine Bablitz.
UAF increased its lead to 2-0 at the 5:04 mark of the middle stanza when Bablitz scored his second of the year from Lawrence and Keith.
BG's Ryan Fultz scored his fourth of the year at 10:37 of the second period when he banged in a rebound of a Greg Day shot.
The Falcons scored the equalizer just 1:20 later as freshman Roger Leonard netted his first collegiate goal. Scott Hewson's check of a UAF defenseman forced a bad pass that Ryan Murphy intercepted and fed Leonard, who banged in his own rebound.
UAF's Ryan Reinheller scored exactly eight minutes into the third period for the game-winning goal.
Falcon goalie Tyler Masters made 19 saves, while UAF's Lance Mayes was credited with 17 stops. Both teams were held scoreless in three power-play attempts. The contest marked the first time this season BG had held an opponent without a power-play goal.
