UMD came off of a three point weekend versus Denver last weekend, and
repeated themselves, earning three points on the road against Michigan
Tech.  The Dogs went up 3-0 in the first with 2 goals from Rusty
Fitzgerald.  The period was marred by 14 penalties on each team,
including 3 10-minute misconducts, 2 on UMD.  UMD's leading scorer, Brad
Federenko drew 12 minutes of penalties in the first period, and 17 for
the game, 4 short of UMD's single game record.  Tech made it a game in
the second with 4 goals, two coming just 28 seconds apart, and one coming
just 24 seconds after Federenko had increased the Bulldog lead to two
goals.  UMD had 92 seconds of 5 on 3 hockey and couldn't score at the end
of the second and the early part of the third.  Federenko drew a major
penalty (Or more correctly, the fans called a major) and the momentum
seemed to be headed back to Tech at 08:38 of the third.  But the Bulldogs
killed off 3:37 of that penalty, and Tech's Jason Wright took an
interference call to end the power play.  The Dogs added an empty netter
to seal a 5 game unbeaten streak (3-0-2).
 
UMD travels to North Dakota next weekend just 5 points away from the
upper division and a home playoff spot.  Saint Cloud State University,
with whom the Dogs are tied for eighth place with after this weekend,
visits the DECC the following weekend.
 
Scoring summary:
UMD     3  2  2 - 7
MTU     0  4  0 - 4
First Period
1. UMD  Fitzgerald 12 (Sittlow)                 14:08
2. UMD  Fitzgerald 13 (Lidster, Rybar)          16:17 pp
3. UMD  Ciccarello 11 (Culic)                   17:52
 
Second Period
4. MTU  Meyers 7 (JMikesch, Figliomeni)         01:02 pp
5. UMD  Ciccarello 12 (Aldoff)                  05:33
6. MTU  Savage 6 (Wright)                       10:55
7. MTU  JMikesch 7 (PMikesch, Figliomeni)       11:23
8. UMD  Federenko 19 (Larson, Dzikowski)        16:27
9. MTU  PMikesch 10 (Peterson, Harris)          16:51
 
Third Period
10. UMD Culic 3 (Hanson)                        05:07
11. UMD Federenko 20                            19:00 en
 
Penalties:
UMD   16 for 51 minutes
MTU   22 for 52 minutes
 
Shots:
UMD     15  12  16 - 43
MTU     12  07  05 - 24
 
Goalies:
UMD
Lendzyk (24 shots - 20 saves)
 
MTU
Caravaggio (42 - 36)
 
Power plays - UMD 1 for 10, MTU 1 for 3
Referees - Scmitt, Goddard  Linesman - Romano
A - 2,622
 
 
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Anthony J. Frolik                            University of Minnesota Duluth
Go Bulldogs!                                    6-11-4 WCHA, 9-12-4 Overall
            My views are not representative of the University.
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