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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Bowling Green State University
Notre Dame
Three Third Period Irish Goals Doom Falcons, 5-2
November 10, 2006 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 10, 2006
SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Three third period goals by the Irish of Notre Dame were too much for the Bowling Green State University hockey team to overcome, as they dropped a 5-2 decision in South Bend, Indiana on Friday night. With game tied at two apiece mid-way through the final period Notre Dame scored three goals in the final 15 minutes to doom the Falcons.
"I thought we did a good job for two periods," said BGSU head coach Scott Paluch. "The game was pretty dead-even as the shots indicated. We got ourselves in position to make the plays to win the game, but we didn't do that and Notre Dame did. It was a game we did a lot of necessary things but it got away from us in the third."
BGSU (3-5-1, 1-4-0) pushed ahead 1-0 at the 10:14 mark of the first period as Kevin Schmidt scored his first goal of the season. While playing 4-on-4 Schmidt carried the puck out of the Falcon zone and passed it over to freshman Todd McIlrath. With McIlrath skating down the left side, Schmidt moved in on the ND cage. McIlrath threw the puck forward to Schmidt, who deflected the pass over the glove of Irish netminder David Brown.
The Falcon goal was the first tally Notre Dame has allowed this season in the first period.
Notre Dame (7-1-1) evened the score just 14 seconds later when Ryan Thang fired a shot several feet right of the Falcon cage, but the puck hit a seam in the glass and deflect directly in front of the Falcon net for an easy goal for Mark Van Guilder.
The Irish gained their first lead of the game with their second goal of the contest at the 16:20 mark of the first for the final marker of the first period.
The Falcons knotted the score at two apiece at the 6:24 mark of the second on Tomas Petruska's fourth goal of the season. Sophomore Tim Maxwell fed the puck up to Jonathan Matsumoto for a break-away opportunity. Matsumoto was completely robbed by Brown, but Derek Whitmore followed the play and grabbed the rebound and passed it to Tomas Petruska. The freshman skated around the ND net and wristed a shot off the skate of an Irish defender for the goal.
The Irish scored the next two goals in a span of 3:15, both power-play goals, to stretch the lead to 4-2.
Notre Dame added one final marker, another power play goal, with just over two minutes to go in the contest for the final 5-2 score.
Notre Dame held a 33-26 shot advantage on the night, while freshman Eddie Neville recorded 28 saves in the loss. ND's David Brown made 24 saves.
The Irish were 3-for-9 on the power play, while the Falcons were held scoreless on five attempts.
These same two teams will do it again tomorrow night inside the Joyce Center. Opening face-off is set for 7:05 p.m.
