{"id":2073,"date":"2001-03-10T23:40:38","date_gmt":"2001-03-11T05:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2001\/03\/10\/niagara-edges-air-force-for-cha-consolation\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:32","slug":"niagara-edges-air-force-for-cha-consolation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2001\/03\/10\/niagara-edges-air-force-for-cha-consolation\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Edges Air Force For CHA Consolation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara won the consolation game of the College Hockey America Final Five as the Purple Eagles defeated the Air Force Falcons, 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Niagara, the second seed in the tournament, concludes the season with a 14-19-5 overall record. Air Force, the fifth seed, finished fourth in the tournament and ended the season with a 16-17-4 overall mark.<\/p>\n<p>Purple Eagle freshman winger Chris Welch opened the scoring at 11:54 of the first period as he tipped in a shot by Dave Hominuk. Hominuk fired a slapshot from the point and Welch tipped it in for his 12th goal of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Niagara took a 2-0 lead midway through the second period on another tip-in goal. Nick Kormanyos, another freshman winger for the Purps, scored his fifth goal of the season as he redirected a shot by Thomas Clayton. <\/p>\n<p>Air Force made the game interesting late in the period as Billy O&#8217;Reilly tipped in a shot by Brian Gornick to make the score 2-1 at 9:59, but it wasn&#8217;t enough as the Purple Eagles took home the third-place trophy after winning the inaugural title last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niagara won the consolation game of the College Hockey America Final Five as the Purple Eagles defeated the Air Force Falcons, 2-1. Niagara, the second seed in the tournament, concludes the season with a 14-19-5 overall record. Air Force, the fifth seed, finished fourth in the tournament and ended the season with a 16-17-4 overall [&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\/2073"}],"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=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/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=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}