LAKE PLACID, N.Y.<\/b> — A championship team relies on everyone to win. And when the usual suspects don’t score, others fill in.<\/p>\n
Said Wisconsin-Stevens Point coach Chris Brooks: “We usually don’t win if the line of [Kyle] Sharkey, [Jacob] Barber and [Lawrence] Cornellier don’t score. They didn’t score last night, and we won. We had guys who stepped up this season.”<\/p>\n
One of those guys who stepped up this weekend was Eliot Grauer, who wound up being named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player after a 5-1 victory over St. Norbert delivered the program’s fifth national championship and first since 1993.<\/p>\n
Grauer scored twice in Friday’s game against Geneseo, playing a key role in the victory.<\/p>\n
Then Saturday, even though that big line did produce the last three goals, it was Grauer who scored the first goal of the night to get things going.<\/p>\n
“He was excellent this weekend,” Brooks said. “Talented, talented kid. Can’t say enough about his skill set. He’s a great player in Division III.”<\/p>\n
Grauer ended this season with 13 goals and 16 assists for 29 points. But none were as important as the three goals in Lake Placid.<\/p>\n
“It feels good,” he said. “It was a team effort. It was the work we did all year that got us here.”<\/p>\n
As a junior, he’ll have one more shot to step up and get his team back to a national championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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