Falcons Dominate Lakers In Friday Night Showdown

Friday, February 9

Bowling Green, Ohio

7:07 p.m.

Bowling Green State University

11-16-0, 9-8-0

Lake Superior State

12-15-1, 9-10-1

Lake Superior St.

Bowling Green

Photo by: Hailey Pettit-Mastroianni, BGSU Athletics

February 09, 2024 | Ice Hockey

Box Score Box Score (PDF) Ty Eigner Press Conference Quinn Emerson Press Conference Ethan Scardina Press Conference

By: by Kenna Hancock, BGSU Athletics

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio. - The Bowling Green Falcons (11-16-0, 9-8-0 CCHA) captured a 6-3 win over the Lake Superior State Lakers (12-15-1,9-10-1) Friday night in Slater Family Ice Arena. Brett Pfoh started the scoring on the night with a power-play goal which was answered quickly after by the Lakers. Ethan Scardina scored late in the first to regain the lead going into the first intermission 2-1. Lake Superior began the scoring for the second period and Quinn Emerson scored the lone goal for the Falcons in that period to lead going into the last intermission 3-2. Emerson continued the scoring at the beginning of the third and Dalton Norris responded soon after with a shorthanded goal to lengthen the lead to two, 5-2. The Lakers scored their last goal of the night to make the score 5-3 and Josh Nodler closed the night with a empty-net goal for a final 6-3 score.

Scoring Plays

Brett Pfoh started the scoring at 10:27 in the first. In a power-play, Scardina passed it across the cage and Pfoh hit it into the back of the net for a 1-0 lead.
Jared Westcott responded quickly at 9:53, shooting the puck off a rebound and found its way past Stoever to tie the game up at one.
Ethan Scardina scored the last goal of the first period at 39.7 seconds. Brandon Santa Juana setting up the goal with a pass to Gustav Stjernberg who passed it down to above the goal line to Scardina who shot it pass the Lakers goaltender for a 2-1 lead.
Connor Milburn started the scoring in the second period at 16:43. Milburn found the puck off a rebound and backhanded it into the back of the Falcons' net.
Quinn Emerson scored the first goal for the Falcons in the second period at 9:18. Emerson,coming off a line-change, found the puck from Seth Fyten for a wide-open lane to put the puck in the back of the net.
Quinn Emerson continued the scoring at 17:50 in the third period. Emerson redirected Breck McKinley's shot from the blue line, past the goal line for a 4-2 lead.
Dalton Norris scored a short-handed goal at 12:36 in the third period. Norris capitalized on the Lakers turnover and was able to shoot the puck in an open lane to extend the Falcons lead 5-2.
Jared Westcott scored the final goal for the Lakers at 6:29 in the third. Westcott was able to break the puck through chaos in front of the Falcons net and push it past Stoever for a 5-3 score.
Josh Nodler finsihed the scoring for the night at 2:55 in the third period with an empty-net goal to concluded with a 6-3 score.

Falcon Facts

Brett Pfoh scored his fourth goal of the season and sixth career goal. Pfoh tallied his first career power-play goal.
Ethan Scardina played in his 99th career game and scored his third goal of the season and 20th career goal. Scardina also tallied an assist, recording his fifth of the season and 18th career. Scardina's goal and assist recorded his first multi-point game of the season and fourth career.
Quinn Emerson recorded three points on the night with two goals and an assist. Emerson now records five goals on the season and eight career, while having six assist on the season and 10 career. Emerson has recorded two points or more for three straight games.
Dalton Norris recorded his fourth goal of the season and sixth career while Josh Nodler tallied his fifth in the Orange and Brown.
Seth Fyten, Spencer Kersten and Jaden Grant both recorded two assist a piece. This tallied Kersten's second game this season recording two assist while Fyten recorded his first game of the season with two assist. While this was Grant's first game of the season with two assist.
Gustav Stjernberg, Brandon Santa Juana, Breck McKinley, and Owen Ozar all tallied one assist.
Christian Stoever recorded his third win of the season and 27 saves.
The Falcons recorded a game-high of 18 points and 12 assist. While they tied goals scored in a single game with six, the last time recording six goals was Nov.24 against Northern Michigan.

Ty's Take
"I like the fact that we scored first, our start was okay but that had more to do with Lake Superior probably than us. They were playing hard early, and they had us on our heels a little bit probably had the better of the play and then we got the power-play and scored the power-play goal. But that goal late by Scar was a big play, gave us the momentum back get the crowd back engaged and feel a lot differently going into the intermission with the lead."

Coach Eigner's full postgame press conference is available HERE. Quinn Emerson's postgame press conference is available HERE. Ethan Scardina's postgame press conference available HERE.

Up Next
The Falcons will continue the action tomorrow (Saturday, February 10) at 7:07 p.m. Saturday will serve at SICSIC Unveiling and post-game the Falcon Hockey team will be signing autographs.

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