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| 2006-07 Records: 0-0-0 MIAC, 2-4-1 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Saint Mary's 6, Northland 2 / Details |
| Upcoming Games: Sat., Dec. 3: SMU at Saint John's, 2:05 p.m. Sun., Dec. 4: SMU at Saint John's, 2:05 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals' 6-2 win over Northland snapped a three-game winless streak (0-2-1). … SMU's six-goal outburst vs. the Lumberjacks was a season high. … Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) scored a pair of goals vs. Northland pushing his team-leading point total to 10. … Gill also shares the team's goal-scoring lead (6) with teammate David Gross (Grasston, Minn.), who also scored a goal vs. Northland. … Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) netted his third goal of the season vs. the Lumberjacks and has now recorded at least one point in SMU's last five games, and has points in six of the Cardinals' seven games, a streak matched by Gill. … Andy Roberts (Rochester, Minn.) recorded the first three-assist game of his career vs. Northland and currently leads the team with seven assists. … Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.) has accounted for three of SMU's seven powerplay goals. … . In their MIAC-opening series vs. Augsburg on Nov. 17-18, all five goals SMU scored were from different players, a feat equalled in SMU's first five goals vs. Northland. Gill broke the streak with his second of two third-period goals. … SMU scored four of its six goals vs. Northland in the second period. |
SMU rolls to 6-2 nonconference win over Northland
WINONA, Minn. —
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Roberts 3 assists vs. Northland |
It wasn't if the Cardinals were going to score against Northland goalie Bo Storozuk, it was when.
And while SMU coach Don Olson must have felt like his team would never score — after coming up empty on their first 25 shots, including 24 in the first period alone.
But once Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) netted the Cardinals' first goal 1:41 into the second period, the dam burst, as SMU erupted for four second-period goals and added two more in the third en route to a 6-2 win against Northland last Tuesday that wasn't nearly as close as the final score indicated.
"We did what we had to do," said SMU coach Don Olson, whose team snapped a three-game winless streak with the victory — the Cardinals' ninth straight without a loss all-time against the Lumberjacks. "It was good to see us get that many scoring chances, but we've still got to find a way to do a better job of finishing.
"Six goals was nice, but it took us 61 shots to get there."
Thanks in large part to the play of Storczuk.
"You have to give (Storczuk) a lot of credit, he played extremely well and really kept them in the game for a long time," said Olson, whose team outshot Northland 24-2 in the opening period, but went into the locker room tied 0-0 after 20 minutes of play. "Everyone on the team knew it was just a matter of time before we would get a couple by (Storczuk), we just had to keep working."
Bohn gave SMU a 1-0 lead with his third of the season and before the period ended, Adam Fleishman (Vernon Hills, Ill.), David Gross (Grasston, Minn.) and Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.) had also beaten the Lumberjack freshman, as SMU turned that 0-0 deadlock into a 4-0 rout.
Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) and Northland's Lindsey Boulter rounded out the scoring, as the two both netted a pair of third-period goals.
"A game like this can really help a team's confidence," said Olson, whose team is back in action this weekend, when the Cardinals return to Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference action with a two-game series at Saint John's. "It was nice to head into the (Thanksgiving) break with a good win, and, hopefully, we'll be able to use this as a springboard as when get back into conference play."