The Bowling Green vs. Ohio State game just finished about 20 minutes
ago with the Falcons dishing out a 6-1 drubbing of the Buckeyes.  It was
a 2-1 game going into the third period when BG would score 4 goals to
beat OSU.
 
  BG opened the scoring at 5:52 of the opening stanza with Brett Punchard
scoring his 13th goal of the season.  Assists went to Mike Hall and Kelly
Perrault.  Pierre DuFour would tie the game at 1 apiece for his 13th goal
of the year with Sacha Guibeault getting the assist.  Brian Holzinger
would score the eventual game winner at the 16:50 mark of the first on a
breakaway for his 31st lamp lighter of the season.The assist went to Tod
Kelman.  The breakaway was the fifth of the weekend for Holzinger who was
stoned on the previous four before scoring.
 
  The second period proved to be the most exciting when there was a huge
fight with about 3 minutes left.  BG defenseman Brandon Carper was hit
from behind by Chad Power resulting in a delayed penalty.  As play was
continuing up ice into OSU's zone, the players were doing a little
bumping when BG's Kevin Lune and OSU's Taj Shaffnit had words and began
to wrestle.  Lune wanted to hold on and wrestle but Shaffnit seemed like
he wanted to fight so both guys dropped the gloves.  They fell to the ice
where they were broken up.  Both received fighting penalties and game
disqualifications because they dropped the gloves (even when no punches
were thrown,this is an automatic call).  This is where things got nasty.
Nobody escorted the players off of the ice and they began to fight in the
tunnel.  In a fighting/game disqualification situation, the players are
to be escorted off the ice one at a time so nothing else happens.  But
the referees allowed them both to leave at the same time so there was
only about 10 feet between the one player walking in front of the other.
Again, words were exchanged, the gloves were dropped, but this time
punches were thrown.  The radio announcer said it was just like a boxing
match- jabs and right/left hand hooks were thrown.  Then OSU's Chad Power
went off the ice and grabbed Lune before Falcon defenseman Brandon Carper
went to the tunnel to get Power off of Lune.  Columbus police had to
break up Lune and Schaffnit and escort them to the dressing room.  Both
Lune and Schaffnit ended up getting double fighting/game disqualification
penalties which makes them ineligible for both of their teams games next
weekend as well as the opening game in the first round of the playoffs.
This is the version of what happened as told by BG assistant coach Brian
Hills on the radio post game show.  So things might have happened
differently depending on the way someone looked at it.
 
 
  The third period wasn't as physical but was more offensive than the
other periods.  Dale Crombeen, Mike Hall, Jamie Williams, and Curtis Fry
all scored for the Falcons to give to end the game and give BG sole
posession of second place in the CCHA with 34 points.  There were many
penalties in this game giving the Buckeyes somewhere around 11 power
plays and BG around 7 power plays.  The goal by Fry in the third period
for BG was the only power play goal scored by either team.  There was
very few occasions where the game had a steady flow as whistles were
always being blown for one reason or another.  BG finishes their regular
season next weekend with home games vs. Lake Superior on Friday night and
Ferris State on Saturday.
 
  With the Buckeyes finishing last place in the league,  they have two
more regular season games plus a preliminary game om March 7th vs. Alaska
Fairbanks to see which team stays in the CCHA playoffs.
 
Alex's 3 stars:
 
1.Bob Petrie(BG)
2.Brian Holzinger(BG)
3.Dave Faulkner(BG)
 
Holzinger for Hobey Baker!!!!