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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Icers Sweep LSSU; Travel To Omaha
March 21, 2000 | Ice Hockey
March 13, 2000
FALCON ICERS WIN TWICE AT LAKE SUPERIOR, PLAY TUESDAY AT NEBRASKA-OMAHA
The Bowling Green State University hockey team continued its Central Collegiate Hockey Association post-season road success by claiming two one-goal victories (2-1 OT, 3-2) at Lake Superior this past weekend.
The series win marked the fifth time in the last 12 years, BG has been on the road and came away with a series triumph. The Falcons have won first round road playoff series at Michigan (1989 - 6-4, 1-4, 3-2 3OT), Western Michigan (1993 - 5-4, 6-3, 1996 - 8-1, 3-1) and Lake Superior (1997 - 5-3, 8-4, 2000 - 2-1 OT, 3-2).
The Falcons improved their CCHA tournament road record to 13-11-2 (53.8%). BG is the only CCHA team with a road winning percentage greater than 33% (NMU is next at 2-5-2) of teams that have played at least four road games.
Bowling Green will play Tuesday (Mar. 14) at Nebraska-Omaha in a CCHA Tournament Play-In game for the right to be the No. 4 seed at Joe Louis Arena and face Michigan at 5 p.m. on Friday (Mar. 17).
THE COACH ...
Falcon mentor Buddy Powers is tied-for-79th place on the NCAA all-time win list with 230 victories. He is tied with current coaches Dick Umile (New Hampshire, 90-present) and Doug Roberts (Connecticut College, 79-present).
Powers served as head coach at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for five seasons (1989-90 through 1993-94) prior to being named to his current position at Bowling Green on July 12, 1994. He spent one season as the head coach at Rochester Institute of Technology (1988-89) leading the Tigers to a second-place finish in the Division III national championships.
Powers has a 2-2-0 record versus the Mavericks of UNO with all four previous meetings being played at the Omaha Civic Auditorium.
THE SERIES ...
Bowling Green and Nebraska-Omaha are tied in the all-time series at 2-2-0.
BG won 4-2 on Jan. 2, 1999, while the Mavericks won the next night 6-1. UNO won 4-3 on Feb. 4, 2000, with the Falcons claiming a 3-2 victory the following evening.
Grady Moore is BG's leading scorer against UNO with five points on two goals and three assists, while Adam Edinger has scored three goals and added one assist four four points.
Shawn Timm is 1-1-0 with a 3.28 goals-against average and a .894 save percentage versus the Mavericks, with Tyler Masters, who started one game, having an 0-1-0 mark with a 10.29 gaa and a .750 save percentage.
PREVIEWING NEBRASKA-OMAHA ...
Nebraska-Omaha won a decisive third game (2-1) at Northern Michigan Sunday night to take the best-of-three series, two games to one.
The Mavericks are led in scoring by junior center Allan Carr (11-18--29), freshman wing David Brisson (15-11--26), junior center Jason Cupp (5-21--26) and freshman defenseman Greg Zanon (3-23--26).
Senior goaltender Kendall Sidoruk has compiled an 11-10-7 mark with a 3.36 goals-against average and an .885 save percentage. Sophomore Rodney McLeod has a 3-8-0 record with a 3.39 goals-against average and an .896 save percentage.
UNO has scored 35 power-play goals in 230 opportunities (15.2%), while the Maverick penalty killers have stopped 167 of their opponents 216 chances (77.3%).
REVIEWING THE LAKE SUPERIOR SERIES ...
Bowling Green's Ryan Fultz scored 1:32 into overtime to give the Falcons a 2-1 triumph last Friday in game one of a best-of-three CCHA Tournament first round series at Lake Superior.
The Lakers had taken a 1-0 lead 9:21 into the third period when Chris McNamara tallied his eighth of the campaign during a four-on-four situation.
The Falcons tied the game with 3:34 left in regulation as Michael Jones skated in from the right point and beat Laker netminder Jayme Platt. Scott Hewson and Grady Moore garnered assists on Jones' fifth of the season.
BG outshot the hosts 14-8 in both the second and third periods. Fultz, a freshman, scored his team-leading 17th goal when he directed in Michael Jones' blueline shot. Curtis Valentine started the scoring play by playing the puck back to Jones at the left point.
Bowling Green rookie goalie Tyler Masters made 24 saves, with Platt stopping 35 BG shots. BG went zero-for-four on the power play, while stopping both Laker man-advantage chances.
Freshman goaltender Tyler Masters made 43 saves as the Bowling Green hockey team recorded a 3-2 win at Lake Superior Saturday night (March 11). The win gave the Falcons a 2-0 sweep of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association first-round playoff series.
BG got on the board first, as Ryan Murphy scored his ninth goal of the year at the 11:28 mark of the first period. The goal, assisted by Adam Edinger and Ryan Fultz, was the only goal of the opening period.
LSSU's Trevor Weisgerber scored his first goal of the year just 2:30 into the second stanza, but Marc Barlow found the net, his fifth of the season, at the 12:49 mark. Edinger had the lone assist, his second of the game, on the give-and-go scoring play.
The Falcons, who were outshot by a 45-27 margin in the game, got a big goal when Scott Hewson scored on a breakaway with just 4:57 left in the third period. Craig Desjarlais and B.J. Adams drew assists on the play. It was Hewson's first game-winner of the season.
The Lakers (18-16-2) pulled within a goal after Mike Vigilante found the net at the 19:02 mark. LSSU put pressure on Masters in the final furious seconds, but could not score the equalizer.
FALCON NOTES ...
Freshman goalie Tyler Masters, who stopped 67 of 70 shots (.957 save pct.) this past weekend at LSSU, has a 4-1-0 mark in his last six appearances with a 1.84 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage.
Rookie forward Ryan Fultz, who scored Friday's game-winner in overtime, has seven goals and one assist for eight points in his last seven games with four power-play goals.
Senior blueliner B.J. Adams leads the Falcons in plus/minus at +8, and has not been minus in the last 10 games. He also leads the squad in penalties (41).
Sophomore forward Scott Hewson recorded his first game- winning goal of the year on Saturday. He has two goals and three assists for five points in the last five contests with a plus/minus rating of +5.
Senior center Adam Edinger has four goals and eight assists for 12 points in the last nine games.
BG had been 1-9-1 when not scoring a power-play goal but had two wins at LSSU despite not scoring a man-advantage marker.
The Falcon penalty killing unit has stopped the last nine opponent power-play chances and 17 of the last 18.
BG IN THE CCHA TOURNAMENT ...
Bowling Green became the second CCHA member school with 50 career playoff wins with last Friday's victory at LSSU (MSU has 56 victories after its sweep of Miami).
BG can make its first appearance at Joe Louis Arena since 1997 with a win on Tuesday. The Falcons, who had reached JLA from 1993 to 1997 inclusive, have a 6-10 overtime mark in CCHA tournament competition.
CCHA FIRST ROUND RESULTS ...
#1 Michigan swept #10 Western Michigan (4-2, 6-2)
#2 Michigan State swept #9 Miami (6-2, 5-1)
#8 BOWLING GREEN swept #3 Lake Superior (2-1 OT, 3-2)
#7 Nebraska Omaha defeated #4 Northern Michigan (2-4, 5-1, 2-1)
#5 Notre Dame defeated #6 Ferris State (4-3, 1-6, 4-2)
