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Published weekly during the hockey season, the NCHA Newsletter comes to you from the office of the NCHA Director of Information (Terry Owens, UW-Stevens Point Sports Information Director) ---------------------------- BEAVERS, JACKETS, POINTERS SWEEP TO OPEN SEASON Last Week: Bemidji State, Superior and Stevens Point each swept NCHA series to open the 1994-95 season while River Falls and St. Norbert split non-conference contests. This Week: Teams take an early season break from NCHA play as every team competes in non-conference play, except for Stevens Point, who is idle. Bemidji State 6, St. Scholastica 2 Bemidji State 13, St. Scholastica 2 Friday: The Beavers got three first period goals to send them on their way. After CSS's Sean Storie opened the scoring, BSU got three unanswered goals from Omer Belisle, Jeff Sobb and Craig McKechney to take a 3-1 lead after one. Craig Matatall made it 4-1 with the lone second period score and then Sobb countered again 10 secons into the third period. Pat Hughes got Scholastica back on the board before Matatall got his second goal of the night for the final. Robin Cook and Mike Beaton combined for 19 saves in net for the Beavers while Andy Karsnia had 56 saves in a losing effort. Saturday: Omer Belisle scored a hat trick and added to assists while Craig Matatall and Eric Fulton each had a pair of goals as the Beavers completed the sweep. BSU raced to a 5-1 lead after one period and increased it to 10-2 after two. Kenny eck had a paid of goals for the Saints. Mike Beaton had 32 saves for the win in net. UW-Superior 11, UW-Eau Claire 4 UW-Superior 8, UW-Eau Claire 3 Friday: The Yellowjackets raced to a 6-0 lead after 16 minutes and never looked back. Dustin Fahl, Tracy Dyer, Kevin Sobb, Fred Harbinson, Doug Smith, and Vance Mattson all got first period scores before the Blugolds broke through on Dan Granato's score 13 seconds into the second period. UWS's Vince Devlin made it 7-1 before Bill Houck brought it back to a five-goal game for UWEC. Superior then got three more goals in succession from Sobb, John Murgatroyd, and Rod Graham before Eau Claire got back-to-back scores from Houck and Jeff Metro. Jason Radtke closed out the scoring for UWS. Dave Graichen made 16 saves for the 'Jackets in net. Saturday: The Yellowjackets got goals from eight different players while racing to a 6-0 lead on the way to the sweep. Doug Smith started the string with a score 33 seconds into the contest and Kevin Sobb completed the explosion at 57 seconds of the second period. UWEC then got three straight scores from Matt Loen and Dan Granato twice in the second period to close to 6-3 before Brent Shaback and Dustin Fahl closed out the UWS scoring with third period scores. Dave Graichen had 21 saves in net for the win. UW-Stevens Point 3, Lake Forest 2 UW-Stevens Point 4, Lake Forest 3 Friday: The Pointers worked to a 3-0 lead before holding off the Foresters in the final four minutes. Mike Zambon opened the scoring for Point with the lone first period score followed by Joe Vancik's goal in the second and Chad Zowin's in the third to make it 3-0. But LFC got goals from Kit Read at 16:04 and Sean Freeman at 16:56 to make it interesting before UWSP held on for the win. David Fletcher had 25 saves for the win for Stevens Point while Sean Keck made 30 saves in a losing effort. Saturday: Mike Zambon had a pair of goals to lead UWSP to the sweep. Andy Faulkner and Zambon gave Point a 2-0 first period lead before Lake Forest tied it on second period goals from Derek Thiede and Mark Studebaker. But Gord Abric gave the Pointers the lead back late in the second and Zambon tacked on his second goal early in the third. Studebaker's second goal with under two minutes left completed the scoring. Dave Ketola had 20 saves for the win while Sean Keck made 29 stops for LFC. Fredonia State 9, St. Norbert 2 St. Norbert 5, Fitchburg State 2 Friday:Fredonia got two in the first, four in the second and three more in the third to handle the Green Knights in the first round of the RIT Tournament. Cameron Knox and Darren Holmes tallied for SNC in a 1:30 span of the third period. Scott Vettraino had 23 saves in net for St. Norbert. Saturday: Five different Green Knights scored and freshman Roby Gropp made his collegiate debut in net with a win as SNC took the RIT Tournament consolation title. Kendal Kelly and Cameron Knox got first period goals to send St. Norbert on its way. Silverio Mirao, Mike Porcaro and Cory Borys also scored for the Knights. Gropp had 21 saves in net. Air Force 5, UW-River Falls 3 UW-River Falls 5, Air Force 4 Friday: The Air Force got a pair of third period scores to hold off the Falcons in Colorado. AFA scored the lone first period goal before UWRF tied it on Aaron Arf's score in the second period. Air Force goals 28 seconds apart gave them a 3-1 lead but Mike Schauer cut the lead to 3-2 at the end of two. The Academy then got two more goals to open the third period to put the game away. Russ Johnson scored for UWRF late to finish the scoring. Terry Metro made 26 saves for the Falcons in a losing effort. Saturday: Mike Schauer scored the game-winner 1:02 into overtime to give the Falcons the win. Russ Johnson had tied the game and forced the extra period with a score 49 seconds before the end of regulation. Eddie MacDonald scored a pair of toals and assisted on three others for UWRF. Jeff Heil had 23 saves in net for the win. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Debbie Somers NCAA Div III National Champs UW-Stevens Point 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91,1992-93 [log in to unmask] ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// "The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously." Hubert H. Humphrey