From Gazette-Telegraph (12/4/94)
 
McNeill's four goals make CC's Saturday night special
 
HOUGHTON, Mich. - There was certainly something special about Colorado
College's 9-3 victory over Michigan Tech on Saturday.
 
Namely, special teams.  Center Jay McNeill tallied four times as the
second-ranked Tigers scored four short-handed goals and three more on
the power play to disappoint a MacInnes Student Ice Arena crowd of 2,451.
 
CC's seventh straight victory left the Tigers with a one-point lead in
the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.  They own 18 points on a
9-1 league record and are 12-2 overall.  Wisconsin, a 5-4 winner over
St. Cloud State, has 17 points.
 
"What can I say about Jay McNeill?  He's having an outstanding season,"
CC coach Don Lucia said after McNeill ran his goal total to 18 for the
season and the Tigers posted their fifth weekend sweep.
 
"We played real aggressive on the penalty kill.  It's nice when you
can feel you have a threat on the penalty kill.  It catches on with
the guys."
 
McNeill, a junior from Cranbrook, British Columbia, scored two power-play
goals, one short-handed and the other in a 4-on-4 situation as the Tigers
skated out to leads of 3-1 after one period and 7-1 at the second
intermission.
 
Peter Geronazzo, the WCHA's leading scorer going into the weekend, scored
a goal, as did Jason Christopherson, David Paxton, Ryan Reynard, and Tim
Sweezo.
 
"The key is what we did defensively again," Lucia said.  "We give up one
goal the first two periods both nights.  That sets you up to win on the
road."
 
Sophomore Judd Lambert, the WCHA's stingiest goaltender, stopped 27 shots
as CC outshot the Huskies, 52-30.
 
The Tigers pressured Tech sophomore Luciano Caravaggio out of the nets
after two periods and 33 saves.  Matt Kucway added 10 stops in the third
period.
 
Lucia benched senior defenseman Kent Fearns after the Tiger captain drew
a misconduct penalty at the end of the first period.
 
"He kinda got mugged, and he didn't thing they were calling it," Lucia
said.  "He got upset and said something to the officials, so he sat."
 
"It was nice to see how the team responded after he went out."
 
(end of article)
 
I guess the curse still plagues Calvin Elfring after all so far this
season.  There have been several times when it was thought he had his
first goal, but it turned out someone tapped it in and he only got an
assist.  I think he has about 9 or 10 assists so far this season.
 
The Tigers return to the UP this weekend to face Northern Michigan.
 
Karen Heasley
Colorado College '95
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 in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
 - Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 11/9/94