Bowling Green State University
OHIO STATE
Falcons Stumble 9-3 To Ohio State
November 17, 2006 | Ice Hockey
Nov. 17, 2006
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University hockey team fell 9-3 Friday night inside the BG Ice Arena to the Ohio State University Buckeyes. In the contest there were 23 penalties, 57 penalty minutes, five power-play goals and one short-handed tally.
Ohio State roared out to an early 3-0 lead just eight minutes into the contest, with one power-play goal and another two even-strength tallies.
"Us falling behind kind of took us a little bit out of what we wanted to do," said BGSU head coach Scott Paluch. "We never really got our mojo down in terms of finishing checks and creating loose pucks. We just didn't have that ability to get much going."
Mike Nesdill cut that lead to 3-1 with a power-play goal at the 17:20 mark of the first period. The extra-man goal snapped a 0-for-42 slump for the Falcon power play. Nesdill skated around fellow defenseman Tim Maxwell and fired a laser through traffic that snuck past OSU netminder Joseph Palmer for his first goal of the year.
Ohio State (3-6-2, 3-4-2) scored the next three goals to gain a 6-1 advantage.
BGSU (3-7-1, 1-6-0) got as close as 6-3 when Derek Whitmore scored back-to-back goals at the 17:38 mark of the second and the 7:47 mark of the third period. Whitmore's first goal of the night came on the penalty kill. While BGSU was in the process of killing-off a five-minute OSU power play, Whitmore stole the puck away from an OSU forward at the Buckeye blueline and walked in untouched for the Falcons second goal of the night.
Whitmore added his second goal on the Falcon power play. Maxwell passed the puck down low to junior Jonathan Matsumoto, who found Whitmore all-along in front of the OSU cage for his ninth goal of the year.
The Bucks added three late goals for the final 9-3 score.
On the night, OSU held a 25-24 shot advantage. The Falcons went 2-for-13 on the power play, while Ohio State went 3-for-9.
These same two teams will do it again tomorrow night at 7:05 p.m. inside the BG Ice Arena
