Wisconsin swept an important series at St Cloud. Next week Minn-Duluth plays at Wisc in a big showdown of the top two WCHA teams. Minn-Duluth is four points ahead of Wisc but the Badgers have played two fewer conference games. In the series against St Cloud, Andy Shier and Dan Plante each had 4 goals on the weekend. Defenseman Barry Richter chipped in with 4 assists on the weekend. Jim Carey is now the man for UW in the nets as he played both games again this weekend. Friday night's game was close all the way. Wisc had a couple of 2 goal leads but St Cloud always came back. In overtime, Grant(?) Sjervan made two big saves to keep St Cloud alive. Finally Plante cashed in his 2nd goal of the game to give Wisc the win. Saturday night's game was not as close. Note that Wisc came up early goals in all three periods. That can really demoralize a team. ---mg ###################################################################### Friday, Jan 29, 1993 Wisconsin---------- 1 3 1 1 - 6 St Cloud St-------- 2 1 2 0 - 5 First Period 1-0 6:35 O'Shea 7 1-1 8:12 Fairchild 19 (Spencer, Plante) 2-1 13:01 Knipscheer 24 Second Period 2-2 :24 Plante 14 (Richter, Spencer) 2-3 3:46 Zent 15 (Moore) 2-4 4:18 Shier 13 (Richter, Plante) (pp) 3-4 6:13 Knipscheer 25 (Hultgren) (pp) Third Period 3-5 4:40 Shier 14 (Zent, Moore) 4-5 14:11 Gruba 9 (pp) 5-5 17:59 Gruba 10 (Knipscheer, Hultgren) (pp) Overtime 5-6 3:14 Plante 15 (Spencer, Richter) Saves Carey (Wis) ----------------- 10 8 8 0 - 26 Sjerven(SCS) ---------------- 10 4 7 2 - 23 Penalties Wis 11 2-min SCS 13 2-min Power Plays Wis 1 for 7 SCS 3 for 6 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, Jan 30, 1993 Wisconsin------------- 2 2 2 - 6 St Cloud St----------- 0 2 1 - 3 First Period 0-1 1:21 Moore 5 (Ma. Strobel, Zent) 0-2 3:02 Shier 15 Second Period 0-3 3:31 Plante 16 (Spencer) 1-3 7:17 O'Shea 8 (Rahn) (sh) 1-4 10:03 Shier 16 (Moore, Richter) 2-4 18:32 Ross 4 (Gruba, Santerre) (pp) Third Period 2-5 4:16 Plante 17 (Fairchild, Shier) (pp) 2-6 11:04 Howard 1 (Ma. Strobel) 3-6 14:30 Ross 5 (Hagen, Knipscheer) (pp) Saves Carey (Wis) ----------------- 7 11 10 - 28 Sjerven (SCS) --------------- 4 7 5 - 18 Penalties Wis 11 2-min & 1 10-min misconduct & 1 5-min major SCS 10 2-min & 1 10-min misconduct & 1 5-min major Power Plays Wis 1 for 6 SCS 2 for 7