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BGSU's Five Power-Play Goals Lead to 6-4 Victory
November 13, 2004 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 13, 2004
Omaha, Nebraska - Bowling Green bounced back from a 4-2 loss on Friday to Nebraska-Omaha with a 6-4 victory on Saturday against the Mavericks. The Falcons put five power-play goals on the board and finished 5-for-8 with the extra man.
"We were good in all facets of the power play," said BGSU Coach Scott Paluch. "We moved the puck real well. It was a combination of getting pucks to the net and retrieving them. We knew we just had to pick up all facets of our game tonight. We moved our feet well and we were rewarded for it."
The Falcons jumped out to a 1-0 lead when freshman Jonathan Matsumoto netted his team-leading fifth goal of the year at 6:00 of the first period. Don Morrison and Brett Pilkington assisted on the first of five Falcon power-play goals.
UNO, however, would tally the next two goals to stake a 2-1 lead. David Phillips scored at 10:52 of the first period and Dan Knapp scored a PPG at 19:12 for the 2-1 Maverick lead.
Only one goal was scored in the second period, that coming from Morrison who scored his first goal of the season and only his fourth career marker at 10:04 to tie the game, 2-2. Jonathan Sigalet earned an assist.
BGSU then rattled off three unanswered goals within the first 10 minutes of the third period to go up 5-2. James Unger gave BGSU a 3-2 lead at 1:55 of the third period with a PPG (Morrison and Sigalet assists) before Pilkington scored a PPG at 6:07 (Unger and Matsumoto assists) for a 4-2 Falcon advantage. Then Matsumoto scored his second PPG of the night at 10:37 for the three-goal lead (Unger and Sigalet assists).
UNO's Bill Thomas made it 5-3 at 13:12 and then BGSU's Michael Hodgson scored his first career goal for BGSU at 15:56, the only even-strength goal of the night for the visitors. Unger and Jon Erickson (first career point) assisted. UNO's Dan Knapp scored at 17:39 for the final 6-4 verdict.
UNO held a slim 29-25 shot advantage for the game. Unger was named the game's first star after recording a career-high four points (1g, 3a). Jonathan Sigalet assisted on a career-high three goals while Morrison had a career-high three points (1g, 2a).
Jordan Sigalet stopped 25 of 29 shots faced while UNO's Chris Holt stopped 19 of 25 shots faced.
The Falcons improve to 5-2-1 overall and 3-2-1 in the CCHA. The loss for the Mavericks was their first at home this season (5-1) at the Qwest Center, and drop to 6-4-0 overall/4-4-0 in the CCHA.
BGSU has non-conference action this week when it travels to Wayne State on Thursday, Nov. 18 (7:05 p.m.) and then hosts the Warriors on Saturday, Nov. 20, at 5:05 p.m. in the BGSU Ice Arena.
