{"id":1962,"date":"2001-02-25T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2001-02-26T00:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/02\/25\/st-thomas-jumps-ahead-in-miac-semis\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:31","slug":"st-thomas-jumps-ahead-in-miac-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2001\/02\/25\/st-thomas-jumps-ahead-in-miac-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Thomas Jumps Ahead in MIAC Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Eric Wenkus had two goals and two assists and junior Jake Searles added two goals as St. Thomas beat Bethel 8-3 in Sunday&#8217;s MIAC semifinal round playoff opener at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p>The teams play again at the Coliseum Monday night at 7 and the Tommies (15-8-3) will advance to the playoff finals against St. John&#8217;s with a victory or tie. A Bethel victory forces a 15-minute mini-game to determine the series winner.<\/p>\n<p>The Toms are trying to make the MIAC finals for the 15th time in 16 seasons. The Royals (11-14-1) are in the conference hockey playoffs for the first time since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore goalie Brad Moore stopped 32 of 35 shots as the Toms ran their win streak to 10. Moore has been in net for all 10 victories.<\/p>\n<p>Searles&#8217; second goal put the Toms ahead 4-0 in the second period. Bethel answered with two goals to cut the lead to 4-2, but the Toms scored three goals in the final 5:10 of the second period to extend the lead to 7-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Junior Eric Wenkus had two goals and two assists and junior Jake Searles added two goals as St. Thomas beat Bethel 8-3 in Sunday&#8217;s MIAC semifinal round playoff opener at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum. The teams play again at the Coliseum Monday night at 7 and the Tommies (15-8-3) will advance to the playoff finals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}