{"id":1993,"date":"2001-03-02T18:05:37","date_gmt":"2001-03-03T00:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/03\/02\/bethel-st-johns-draw-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:31","slug":"bethel-st-johns-draw-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2001\/03\/02\/bethel-st-johns-draw-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethel, St. John&#8217;s Draw in Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. John&#8217;s outshot Bethel, 56-23, on Friday night, but the teams settled for a 4-4 tie in the first game of the MIAC championship series. The teams play the deciding game Sunday at 2 p.m. in the National Hockey Center.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel had a 3-1 lead after one period thanks to two goals by Jared Gustafson and one by Mike Marshall. That offset the game&#8217;s first goal that was scored by St. John&#8217;s Mike Possin.<\/p>\n<p>St. John&#8217;s rallied in the second period, getting goals from Bryan Talbot and Shawn Knorr in the first 12 minutes. But Bethel&#8217;s Gustafson completed his hat trick at the 18:13 mark, lifting the Royals into a 4-3 lead after two periods.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Willey then tied the game at 4-4, 9:08 into the third period, and that ended the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel&#8217;s Steve Witkowski had 52 saves, while St. John&#8217;s Rick Gregory turned<br \/>\naway 19.<\/p>\n<p>If the teams tie Sunday, a mini-game will be held immediately afterwards. The winner of the series receives an automatic berth in the eight-team NCAA<br \/>\nDivision III Hockey Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethel&#8217;s Steve Witkowski stopped 52 shots to help give his team a 4-4 tie in Game 1 of the MIAC finals.<\/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\/1993"}],"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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/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=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}