ANCHORAGE, Alaska<\/b> — Alaska completed a comeback to retain the Governor’s Cup, beating Alaska-Anchorage 3-2 on Saturday to tie the season series.<\/p>\n
The Nanooks then beat the Seawolves 1-0 in a shootout that determined which team ended its season holding the trophy.<\/p>\n
Alaska (19-13-2, 14-12-2 WCHA) built a 3-0 lead on second-period goals by Tayler Munson, Trevor Campbell and Josh Erickson.<\/p>\n
Tad Kozun and Austin Azurdia scored later in the period for Alaska-Anchorage (8-22-4, 5-21-2), which ended its season losing 11 of its last 12 games.<\/p>\n
The Nanooks’ Tyler Morley scored the only goal in the shootout, and Sean Cahill stopped all three Seawolves shots.<\/p>\n
Alaska-Anchorage won both games of the first series the teams played this season, in January in Fairbanks. Alaska won Friday’s game in Anchorage 1-0<\/a>.<\/p>\n Alaska finished fourth in the WCHA standings<\/a> but is ineligible for postseason play this season<\/a> due to NCAA violations.<\/p>\n The Nanooks were 7-0-1 in their last eight games.<\/p>\n [youtube_sc url=https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AiZujncDKog]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alaska completed a comeback to retain the Governor’s Cup, beating Alaska-Anchorage 3-2 on Saturday to tie the season series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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\/20609"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20610,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20609\/revisions\/20610"}],"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=20609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}