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| 2006-07 Records: 4-10-1 MIAC, 7-16-1 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: St. Thomas 6, Saint Mary's 4 / Details |
| This Week's Events: Mon., Feb. 26: SMU at St. Thomas, 7:00 |
| Cardinal News and Notes: After winning a season-high three straight in late January, SMU has now dropped six in a row. … The Cardinals' four goals vs. the Tommies were the most scored in a loss since SMU netted five in a 6-5 setback vs. UW-Eau Claire on Nov. 4, 2006. … SMU's four goals were also the most since beating Hamline 5-4 in overtime on Jan. 26. … SMU's last six meetings vs. St. Thomas have been decided by two goals or less. … The Cardinals have scored more than two goals just five times in their 15 losses this season. … Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.), Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.), Andy Roberts (Rochester, Minn.) and David Gross (Grasston, Minn.) accounted for SMU's four goals vs. St. Thomas Friday night. … The Cardinals have not had a multiple-goal scorer in their last six games, dating back to Staehely's hat trick in a 5-4 OT win over Hamline on Jan. 26. … Adam Gill (Rochester, Minn.) currently leads the team in goals (12) and is second in points with 21, four behind team-leader Anthony Bohn (Spring Hill, Fla.) . … Bohn also leads the team in assists (18), and he and Gill are two of seven SMU players with at least 10 points this season. … With Friday's loss to the Tommies, the Cardinals are now 3-13-0 when their opponent scores first. … Five of SMU's seven wins have come at home — the Cardinals are 2-9-0 away from the SMU Ice Arena. … The Cardinals have scored just 23 goals in their 11 road games, while netting twice that many (48) on their home ice. |
series opener; Mother Nature puts rematch on hold
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More importantly, the Cardinals' offense was suffering from a late-season meltdown, failing to score more than three goals in any of the five games.
SMU broke out of its offensive funk, scoring four goals against the Tommies — the most goals allowed by UST in its last six games.
Unfortunately for the Cardinals, as good as their offense was, the Tommies' was even better.
UST erupted for four first-period goals — including one 1:40 into the period and two in a two-minute span midway through — en route to a 6-4 MIAC victory at the SMU Ice Arena.
"Offensively, I thought we played very well," said SMU coach Don Olson. "But defensively — especially in the first period — we did not play well at all. We did a lot of standing around and St. Thomas took advantage."
Nick Pernula opened the scoring for UST with his 21st of the season, taking a feed from Kevin Rollwagen and beating SMU goalie Andy Nadeau (Winona, Minn.). Jesse Polk (Hastings, Minn.) knotted the game at 1-1 with his 10th of the season, only to have Ryan Hoehn and Pernula answer for the Tommies to give UST a 3-1 advantage with nine minutes remaining in the first period.
And the fireworks were just beginning.
Matt Staehely (Shorewood, Ill.) pulled the Cardinals to within a goal, 3-2 at 16:52, but again the Tommies answered, scoring 28 seconds later to take a 4-2 advantage into the locker room after one period.
UST netted the lone goal of the second period on Harris' second of the game, while SMU sandwiched goals by Andy Roberts (Rochester, Minn.) and David Gross (Grasston, Minn.) around a tally by St. Thomas' Alex Arnason to close out the scoring.
After a pair of "snow-outs," the Cardinals, who saw their losing streak climb to a season-high sixth straight in falling to 4-10-1 in the MIAC and 7-16-1 overall, finally get a chance to close out their season Monday, traveling to St. Thomas for a 7 p.m. game.
"We were hoping (Friday's game) would be a nice way to send our seniors off, but that didn't work out quite the way we had hoped," said Olson, whose four graduating seniors — Adam Fleishman (Vernon Hills, Minn.), Cullum Buetow Staples (Arden Hills, Minn.), Andy Nadeau (Winona, Minn.) and Nick Berra (St. Louis, Mo.) — played the final home game of their careers Friday. "Hopefully we can make their final collegiate game a memorable one."