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
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
|