Here is the article from the Minnesota Daily in this morning's edition. It gives a recap of the WCHA-CCHA Challenge. For those that have been asking Wisconsin beat Michigan 5-3 (I think). Headline: Hockey Gophers fall to Michigan, top State (Michigan State) Publish Date: 11/29/1993 :RM138PT:By David Jackson Staff Reporter After his team was humbled 6-0 by Michigan on Friday, Gopher hockey coach Doug Woog shuffled his lines, looking for a winning combination. He found it. The Gophers beat Michigan State 6-5 on Saturday to salvage a split in the CCHA-WCHA Challenge at The Palace, in Auburn Hills, Mich. Woog changed three of his four lines for Saturday's game, and each of the redesigned groups produced two goals. Goalie Jeff Moen also did his part, making 24 saves to win his second straight game. "The complaint I had was that the line that was playing the best was the smallest line," Woog said. "We've got these other guys who were strong, and they weren't playing together." Woog had his players take walks Saturday morning. He sent each new line of forwards and each defensive pair out together, hoping they would come back with a solution for Friday's performance. "I said, `You guys go out and see if you can figure out that it takes all three guys (on the line) to win. See if you can start to get some chemistry.'" After spotting the Spartans a 2-0 lead and bringing back memories of the previous night, the Gophers went to work late in the first period. Sophomore Jesse Bertogliat scored his first goal of the season -- only the second of his career -- when he took Tony Bianchi's pass at the right circle and beat Michigan State goalie Mike Buzak high to the glove side. Justin McHugh then tied the game before the end of the period, controlling a bouncing puck off a defenseman's skate and sliding it past a diving Buzak. When Steve Magnusson picked up a rebound behind the net and successfully wrapped it around to Buzak's left, the Gophers led 3-2 just 58 seconds into the second period. They would never trail again. The Spartans' Steve Guolla tied the game at 5:58 of the period, and the teams went to the third period even at 3. Minnesota struck first at 4:50 when Dave Larson jumped on a loose puck in the slot and whistled a wristshot through Buzak's pads. Michigan State answered on Anson Carter's power-play goal at 6:29. Chris Smith's slapshot deflected off Moen, and when Dan Trebil tried to bat the puck out of the air with his glove, it landed in the goalmouth. Carter got to the puck an instant before teammate Rem Murray and batted it in. But Jed Fiebelkorn got a lucky bounce of his own when he beat the defense and Trebil's pass deflected off a Spartan defenseman onto his stick. The junior deked goalie Buzak to the right and stuffed the puck into the short side at 8:43. Jeff Nielsen scored an empty-net goal at 19:49 to give the Gophers a two-goal lead, which they would need when Josh Weigand one-timed a centering pass past Moen with 2.4 seconds left. "We played hard. Everyone was going over the boards for us. Every line had some consistency," Woog said. The Gophers could be happy with a performance like Saturday's after playing miserably against the top-ranked Wolverines on Friday. "We had no consistency," Woog said. "Maybe a line would have a good shift. Then it would be three or four lines before we had another good one." Michigan goalie Steve Shields stopped all 20 Gopher shots to earn his 89th career win, an NCAA record. Forward David Oliver scored a pure hat-trick, beating Gopher goalie Jeff Callinan three times in the first period. After a scoreless second period, Wolverine freshman Jason Botterill scored twice on power-plays early in the third period, and Mike Hilton added the sixth goal in the game's final five minutes. Gopher notes: Each team in the challenge finished with a 1-1 record. Michigan State got two goals from Carter to beat Wisconsin 4-2 in Friday's second game, giving the CCHA a sweep of Friday's doubleheader. But the Badgers handed Michigan its first loss of the season when Brian Rafalski's goal broke a 3-3 tie in the third period Saturday and propelled Wisconsin to a 5-3 win. Carol S. White BITNET: c-whit@uminn1 University of Minnesota internet:[log in to unmask] Office of the Registrar (612) 625-8517 GO Gophers!!!