Here are the articles from the Gazette-Telegraph (w/o permission)
10/22
 
Tigers show No.3 Michigan how to party
  CC goalie turns 21 on victorious night
 
   Colin Schmidt, Jay McNeill and Peter Geronazzo helped Colorado College
goaltender Ryan Bach celebrate his 21st birthday in style Friday night.
   Schmidt and McNeill scored two goals in the last 42 seconds of the
first period to turn a one-goal deficit into a one-goal lead, and Geronazzo
netted two goals as the fifth-ranked Tigers rocked No.3 Michigan, 7-4.
   A Yost Ice Arena crowd of 5,526 watched the defending Western Collegiate
Hockey Association champions beat last year's first-place club from the
Central Collegiate Association.  It was the season opener for CC, which meets
1-1 Michigan again at 5 p.m. MDT today.
   Bach, a redshirt sophomore from Sherwood Park, Alberta, stopped 24 shots
and was praised by second-year coach Don Lucia.
   "The difference in the game was goaltending," Lucia said.  "Bach got
stronger as the game went on; their kid let in some weak ones."
   Bach stopped 17 of the last 18 shots he faced.  Michigan senior Al Loges
also recorded 24 saves, but surrendered all of CC's goals before coach Red
Berenson yanked him for freshman Marty Turco with 6:58 to play.
   Lucia said the game turned on goals by Schmidt at 19:18 of the first
period and by McNeill 17 seconds later.
   Michigan had taken a 3-2 lead at 15:26, but Schmidt stole a clearing
pass and flipped a quick wrist shot past Loges.  McNeill and Chad Remackel
then worked a quick give-and-go off the ensuing mid-ice faceoff, and the
Tigers had the momentum.
   After a scoreless, penalty-slowed second period, Geronazzo and Ryan
Reynard sandwiched goals around a Michigan score.  Senior center R.J. Enga
iced it with 6:52 remaining on a short-handed goal after a hard-working
assist from wing Chad Hartnell.
   "I was upset with our players after the second period," Lucia said.
"We took some poor penalties.  That's not Tiger hockey.  We did a much
better job in the third period."
   CC drew just one penalty in the final 20 minutes.
   Freshman Stewart Bodtker scored the other CC goal.
 
from 10/23
 
Wolverines whisk away a win
  CC settles for a series split with Michigan
 
   Jason Botterill converted a stolen Colorado College clearing pass into
the winning goal with one second remaining Saturday, lifting third-ranked
Michigan to a 5-4 victory over No. 5 Colorado college before a Yost Ice
Arena crowd of 5,982.
   CC, which swamped the Wolverines 7-4 on Friday, rallied from a two-goal
deficit with third-period scores by sophomore Tim Sweezo at 6:40 and
freshman Stewart Bodtker at 15:21.
   But the Wolverines' Brendan Morrison stole Chad Hartnell's pass, fed
Botterill and the sophomore from Winnipeg, Manitoba, whipped the puck past
CC goaltender Judd Lambert at 19:59.  It was Botterill's second goal of the
night and the third power-play score of the game for the Wolverines (2-1).
CC, which was 0 for 7 in power plays, slipped to 1-1.
   "That was just one great college hockey game," said CC coach Don Lucia.
"It's tough to lose it in the last second, but I just couldn't be happier
with the pace and type of game it was."
   Senior R.J. Enga and freshman Travis Cheyne scored the other CC goals
as the Tigers rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the first period.
   "We seemed to get going as the game went on," Lucia said.  "I couldn't
be prouder fo the guys' performance and the way they played.  We sat out
Fearnsie (senior defenseman Kent Fearns with a groin pull), we hit two
posts and we still had a chance to win."
   Lambert, a sophomore from Richmond, British Columbia, stopped 27 shots.
UM freshman Marty Turco registered 18 saves.
   "Judd was a lot like Ryan was - he got better as the game went on," said
Lucia, comparing Lambert with Ryan Bach, who stopped 24 shots Friday.
   Sophomore wing Warren Luhning scored two goals for the Wolverines;
Botterill added two assists.
   "I thought we acquitted ourselves very well," Lucia said.  "The only
thing that would have been better is if we won the game tonight."
 
(end of articles)
 
Karen Heasley
Colorado College '95
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