Final Score: NMU 8 AAU 5 Just got home from the game which was played in front of 4240 hockey fans. I don't have the stats at this point but will post them in the morning. The officiating was very good. The ref was Gallagher who took a real nasty boarding early in the first period. He didn't get up for a couple of minutes and he was pretty spacey when he did first stand up. He recovered from a rough blow and finished the game. He called a good game IMHO. My hats off to AAU for their stick-to-itness. They took advantage of sloppy defensive play on the part of NMU. Billy Pye (NMU Goaltender) played inconsistently. Drake of Northern had a hat-trick for the evening and nearly scored his fourth goal late in the third. I am really much too excited to post with sanity; therefore, I will hold off until the morning. I understand that the following teams won this evening: Maine over Minnesota \ Clarkson over LSSU \ Boston U. over Michigan -- |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||| mailrus!sharkey!lopez!duke ||| Norther Michigan WildCat Hockey |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Go Cats Go! ||||||||| duke@lopez ||||||||||| WCHA Champions