The Northern Michigan Wildcats had about a nine minute burst in the second period on Friday night to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three CCHA First Round series against Miami. With the 4-0 win the Wildcats are just one more win away from a trip to Joe Louis Arena next week and the next round of the CCHA Tournament.<\/p>\n
NMU improves to 24-11-2 while Miami is now 12-21-2. <\/p>\n
“I thought that we played pretty well for two periods,” Rick Comley, head coach of NMU, said. “Scoring first is so important in this day and age.”<\/p>\n
Terry Harrison scored the first goal of the game, which turned out to be the game-winner at 4:42 of the second period and then Alan Swanson scored his 11th goal of the season at 8:18 of the period. <\/p>\n
Ryan Carrigan scored 32 seconds later at 8:50 in the second period to make the score 3-0. With Chad Theur getting an assist it was his 50th point on the season. He is the first Wildcat to register 50 points in a season since Greg Hadden did it during the 1994-95 season. <\/p>\n
Chris Gobert scored the final goal of the game, his 15th on the season at 13:35 of the second period.<\/p>\n
Craig Kowalski picked up his fourth shutout on the season. It was his first post-season and home shutout in his career. He stopped all 24 shots he faced. The Wildcats also had 24 shots on goal for the night. <\/p>\n
“Craig was very steady tonight,” Comley added. “I thought that we played a pretty solid game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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