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Falcons Fall To #7 Miami, 4-3
October 28, 2006 | Ice Hockey
Oct. 28, 2006
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OXFORD, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University hockey team opened their 2006-07 Central Collegiate Hockey Association action on Friday with a 4-3 loss to #7 Miami inside the Steve Cady Arena. In the loss freshman Eddie Neville made a career-high 41 saves.
Bowling Green (2-2-1, 0-1-0) opened the scoring at the 7:12 mark of the first period with a goal by junior Derek Whitmore, his sixth of the season. Jonathan Matsumoto stole the puck from the RedHawks at the MU blueline. Matsumoto passed the puck between two Miami defenders onto the tape of Tomas Petruska. The freshman faked a shot and fed the puck to Whitmore who had an empty net to shoot at.
Miami (5-2-0, 2-1-0) evened the score at one apiece six minutes later from a goal by Alec Martinez.
The Orange and Brown once again regained the advantage, this time with help of Petruska. Petruska, along with forwards Whitmore and Matsumoto as well as defensemen Kyle Page and Michael Hodgson held the puck in the Miami end for roughly 45 seconds. Matsumoto finally found some open ice between the circles and fired a wrister off the pads of MU goaltender Charlie Effinger. Petruska grabbed the rebound and did the rest for a 2-1 Falcons' lead.
MU recorded the next three goals in a span of 9:30 minutes to claim a 4-2 lead late in the second period. Ryan Jones, Ray Eichenlaub and Gary Steffes all recorded goals in the span.
BGSU clawed to within one when John Mazzei jammed home a rebound goal at the 6:43 mark of the third. Freshmen Kyle Page and James Perkin added assists on the goal, but that was as close as the Falcons would get.
Bowling Green was 0-for-1 on the power play, while Miami was just 1-for-2. The RedHawks held a 45-30 shot advantage for the game.
The Falcons and RedHawks will continue their weekend series tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m.
