Site AdministratorSomeone apparently forgot to tell Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota they sit in the bottom half of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings. Both put on a top-rate show Friday night when ninth-place UMD captured a 3-2 victory over the eighth-place Fighting Sioux in front of 4,773 at the Duluth Entertainment and Convention Center. Mark Carlson … Read more
There’s something about playing Ferris State that brings out the best in Western Michigan sophomore forward Dana Lattery. Lattery continued his torrid pace Friday by tallying two goals, including the game- winner, and an assist to help lead No. 15 WMU past the Bulldogs 5-3. The Cochrane, Alberta, native has scored five goals in two … Read more
St. Lawrence scored five goals in the third period to pull away from the Colgate Raiders for a 6-1 victory at Appleton Arena. Six different players scored for the Saints, and five had two point games. Despite outshooting the Raiders 30-7 in the first two periods of play, the Saints were only able to take … Read more
Despite Northeastern having the second best home ice record in Hockey East (12-2-2), the Boston College Eagles hardly let that record influence them. It would be all Eagles from opening faceoff to the final whistle. Boston College (17-14-2, 9-11-1 HEA) defeated the Northeastern Huskies (17-13-3, 10-9-2 HEA) in convincing fashion, 7-2, Friday night at Matthews … Read more
Yale’s Spencer Rodgers scored two power-play goals in a two-and-a-half minute span of the second period and assisted on a third as the Bulldogs kept their ECAC playoff hopes alive while ending Vermont’s hopes for a post-season berth with a 3-2 win over the Catamounts. Vermont, 3-23-2 overall and 3-15-1 in ECAC play, got on … Read more
Black Bears Maul Minutemen Ronan, Shields Score Two Each By Jeff Mannix Friday’s game between the UMass-Amherst Minutemen and the Maine Black Bears at Alfond Arena was in doubt, but not for very long. After John Ronan’s tap-in goal for Maine at 6:14 of the first period was equalized by an opportunistic UMass goal 16 … Read more
Paul Cabana has a big way of breaking out of scoring droughts. The senior forward ended a 10-game scoreless streak with a pair of goals as Michigan Tech snapped an eight-game losing skid with a 5-4 win over Minnesota State-Mankato Friday night at MacInnes Arena. In December, Cabana ended a 13-game slump with two goals … Read more
Krzysztof Wieckowski’s late second-period goal lifted Cornell into a 2-2 overtime tie with St. Lawrence at Lynah Rink. The tie, combined with Dartmouth’s tie, clinched the regular season ECAC championship for the Big Red for the first time since 1973 and gave the Big Red the inaugural William J. Cleary Cup. Goaltender Dave LeNeveu made … Read more
Perhaps Niagara wants to play one of the Thursday games in the College Hockey America Tournament it hosts in three weeks. How else can the third-place Purple Eagles’ lackluster performance in a 3-3 tie with the Air Force Academy on Friday at Dwyer Arena be explained, considering that the top two finishers in the CHA … Read more
No. 6 Boston University entered tonight’s contest on a seven-game winning streak, the longest stretch in three years for the Terriers. But after last weekend’s seventh win, a home-ice clinching victory over Lowell, there was some fear that the Terriers would be all bark and no bite. BU certainly silenced those critics tonight, skating past … Read more
Mercyhurst won its 21st game overall, and 20th in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Friday night, 5-1 over visiting AIC. The Lakers got a pair of goals from sophomore Mike Carter, two more from sophomore Adam Tackaberry and a solo game-winning power-play goal from junior Mike Muldoon in turning back the Yellow Jackets for the … Read more
For the third time this season, Notre Dame defeated Lake Superior State University, this time with a 3-1 victory Friday night at the Taffy Abel Arena. With 4:37 remaining to play in the first period, Cory McClean put Notre Dame on the board with an even-strength goal from Kyle Dolder and Brad Wanchulak. The goal … Read more
Last Saturday against St. Lawrence, Harvard rallied from a 3-0 deficit with three goals in the third period to salvage a tie. Friday night, Rensselaer took an identical lead into the final frame but refused to yield in a 5-1 victory before 2,776 at Bright Hockey Center. The Engineers (15-10-4, 9-7-3 ECAC) and Crimson (10-12-4, … Read more
The ECAC has announced that the 2002 ECAC women’s championship title game will be aired by New England Sports Network (NESN) and Empire Sports. Empire will air the game live, while NESN will air it on a tape-delay basis March 20 at 7 p.m. The championship weekend begins with a semifinal doubleheader on March 16 … Read more
The bid to host the 2004 Women’s Frozen Four, the NCAA annual women’s hockey championship, has been awarded to New Haven. The announcement was made jointly Wednesday by co-hosts the New Haven Coliseum, Yale University and the ECAC.
Air Force suddenly believes the hype; Niagara moves toward the number-two seed in the CHA tournament; Findlay hopes to play spoiler; and weekend matchups. Geof F. Morris‘ CHA Beat arrives for another week.
As the ECAC Northeast (not to mention the Division II) playoffs get started, seniors around the country will fight to keep their last game at arm’s length. One by one, they will find themselves in the closing moments of their college careers. Ed Seero offers a look.
Brown and Rensselaer continue their rise toward home ice, while St. Lawrence and Yale are headed in the opposite direction. Also: first-place Cornell can’t end one particular run of misfortune, and the Iron Columnists go on an unprecedented losing streak. Jayson Moy and Becky Blaeser report.
Rookie Kristy Oonincx scored her sixth game-winning goal of the season, sending No. 1 Minnesota to a 3-2 overtime victory over the Wisconsin Badgers. Minnesota was down 2-1 midway through the third period before the Gophers fought back to win their sixth overtime game this season. On the winner, Noelle Sutton won the faceoff to … Read more
Middlebury wrapped up the regular season Sunday with a 8-0 win over Colby. The Panthers will draw a first-round bye and host the NESCAC Tournament on March 1-2 at the Kenyon Arena in Middlebury. The win extends Middlebury’s league unbeaten streak to 128 games (127-0-1) and its home winning streak to 85 games. Middlebury jumped … Read more