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Falcons Fall To Miami, 6-1
November 25, 2005 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 25, 2005
OXFORD, Ohio - Jonathan Matsumoto recorded a goal just four minutes into the game with the RedHawks of Miami on Friday night to give the Falcons an early 1-0 lead inside the Goggin Ice Arena, before Miami rattled off six straight goals for a 6-1 win over the Bowling Green State University hockey team.
"We played an excellent road game for two periods," said head coach Scott Paluch. "We had the game and situation right where we needed to be in the third period. We could not sustain that for the third."
Matsumoto recorded his seventh goal of the season (first non power-play goal of the season) exactly four minutes into Friday's action. Senior Mike Falk cleared the puck out of the Falcon zone directly onto the stick of sophomore Alex Foster who led Matsumoto perfectly. The sophomore forward skated in on MU goaltender Charlie Effinger and placed the puck in the right upper corner of the net for a BGSU 1-0 advantage.
Miami tied the game back up at the 9:07 after Nathan Davis recorded a power-play goal in the first period. Davis picked up his second goal of the night (finished with three) at the 4:08 mark of the second to give Miami the lead for good.
BGSU thought they tied the game up at 2-2 after sophomore John Mazzei was left alone in front of the Miami goal, but rang the puck off the left post with just under four minutes left in the second period.
The Falcons continued to show life in the second stanza as Foster skated in uncontested, but was denied the game-tying goal by Effinger with 49 seconds remaining in the second stanza.
The two teams ended the second period with Miami leading 2-1 and the RedHawks holding an 18-17.
"We won a lot of puck battles and got to a lot of loose pucks," said Paluch. "We were extremely smart and generated some great chances in the first two periods. It was game going into the third with an opportunity."
Miami scored four goals in the third period and out shot the Falcons 15-5.
For the game Miami was 2-for-6 on the power play, while the Falcons were held scoreless, going 0-for-6.
Miami and BGSU travel 175 miles north to Bowling Green, Ohio, for a Saturday night affair at the BGSU Ice Arena tomorrow night. Face-off is set for 7:05.
