Friday afternoon, the #1 Penn State Icers played their final preliminary round
game at the ACHA National Tournament, taking on Anfu Wang, last year's tourney
MVP and the #4 Iowa State Cyclones, last year's champions.  But the Cyclones
looked nothing at all like last year, as Penn State scored just 16 seconds into
the contest, and would add four more in the period, including a goal by Ross
Cowan at 2:35 (his 43rd goal and 100th point this season), and one by Don La
Lamison at 12:47 (Penn State's 300th goal this year) to take a 5-0 lead after
one.  Iowa State had pulled their starting goaltender, Pete Jurvis, after
just 5:57 of play, with the Icers up 4-0.  Iowa State would finally get on
the board at 1:26 of the second, but Penn State would answer back at 8:16, and
led 6-1 after two.  Dennis Magulick came in to relieve John Gray midway through
the period.  The Cyclones tried to make a comeback, pressuring Magulick during
the third, and scored at 5:33, but Mark Cervellero would pick up his hat trick
at 18:50, and Penn State had defeated Iowa State 7-2 to advance to tonight's
championship game.  The loss knocked Iowa State out of the consolation game.
 
Score by periods:
                1       2       3       T
#4 Iowa State   0       1       1       2
#1 PENN STATE   5       1       1       7
 
1st:  PSU Murphy 35 (Adams) 0:16
      PSU Cowan 43 (Keegan) 2:35
      PSU M. Cervellero (C. Cervellero, Hoffman) 5:05
                       ^10
      PSU Cowan 44 (Lamison) 5:57
      PSU Lamison 25 (Cowan) 12:47
 
2nd:  ISU Ward (Wang) 1:26
      PSU M. Cervellero 11 (C. Cervellero, Russell) 8:16
 
3rd:  ISU Ward (Riley) 5:33
      PSU M. Cervellero 12 (C. Cervellero) 18:50
 
Shots on goal:  PSU 55, ISU 36
 
Power Play:  PSU 0 of 2, ISU 0 of 1
 
The Icers move to 33-0-0 on the season, and win the A Bracket with a 3-0-0
record.  Penn State will face the host team, the #3 North Dakota State Bison
tonight for the ACHA Championship.  NDSU upset #2 Arizona 3-2 last night to
win the B Bracket with a 3-0-0 record.  Arizona at 2-1-0 will face #5 Michigan-
Dearborn (with 2-1-0 also, I believe) in the consolation game.
 
My apologies to anyone who was looking for scores involving Colorado, Illinois,
Eastern Michigan, and Michigan-Dearborn on Friday...I will post a complete
tournament wrapup as soon as I can get my hands on one...
 
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 *       Jeremy Hall          [log in to unmask]          Penn State Univ.     *
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 *                CLARKSON GOLDEN KNIGHTS:  1991 ECAC CHAMPIONS              *
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 *                              PENN STATE ICERS:                            *
 *      1992-93 ATLANTIC COLLEGIATE HOCKEY LEAGUE REGULAR SEASON CHAMPS      *
 *                      1993 ACHL TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS                       *
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 *     LET'S GO TECH!!!!                                LET'S GO ICERS!!     *
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