Brett Sterling scored two goals and added an assist to lead Colorado College to an 8-2 win over St. Cloud State in Game 1 of their WCHA first-round playoff series Friday night at the World Arena.<\/p>\n
CC grabbed an early lead when Marty Sertich scored just 1:22 into the game, but the Huskies tied the game on a power-play goal just under two minutes later by sophomore forward Nate Raduns.<\/p>\n
The Tigers then broke the game open with five consecutive goals, including two by Aaron Slattengren in a span of 3:51 midway through the first period. Slattengren’s first tally with 8:57 left in the opening frame proved to be the game-winner, his fourth in the last seven games.<\/p>\n
James Brannigan scored twice for his first multi-goal game, while Sertich, who leads the nation in scoring, had a goal and two assists.<\/p>\n
CC also got a goal from Mark Stuart and two assists from both Scott Polaski and Jack Hillen. Billy Hengen scored St. Cloud’s other goal.<\/p>\n
Tiger goaltender Curtis McElhinney had 29 saves while improving his record to 18-2-1 as CC outshot SCSU 45-31.<\/p>\n
Tim Boron was the goalie of record for St. Cloud with 25 saves in 31:03 of play. He started the game, was relieved in the first period by Jason Montgomery and then returned to the nets for the third period.<\/p>\n
The Tigers can wrap up the series and a trip to the WCHA Final Five on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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