LSSU Splits with Ohio State to Pick up Second CCHA win of the Season

Lake Superior State University’s hockey team picked up 2 points in CCHA play with a win on Saturday after a heartbreaking loss on Friday night. LSSU found themselves tied at 1-1 after the first period after Carter Lee scored his first goal as a Laker at 11:52, assisted by John Scrymgeour, to offset OSU’s Mathieu Picard’s goal earlier in the period. LSSU took the 1-2 lead on a Pat Aubry goal at 5:51 of the second period with Scrymgeour and Steve Olesky getting the assists. Ohio State was able to tied the game back up at 2-2 scoring a goal in the last minute of the second, with Tommy Goebel slipping on bye LSSU starting goaltender Brian Mahoney-Wilson. The Lakers took the lead again at 6:15 of the third period with Zac MacVoy scoring his 4th goal of the season, with Dan Eves and Chad Nehring assisting. Ohio State tied the game up again, at 3-3, on the power play at 9:59 of the third with Goebel’s second goal of the game. Matt Cowie took a hooking penalty at 17:53 and Ohio State’s Peter Boyd put in the game winner with 8 seconds remaining in the game, after Nathan Perkovich broke his stick trying to clear the puck from the zone. Machoney-Wilson made 35 saves on the 39 shots he faced. While Ohio State’s Joseph Palmer made 25 saves on LSSU’s 28 shots to record the win. LSSU went 0-for-3 on the power play while OSU was 2-for-4 with the extra man. Saturday night LSSU was able to pull off an overtime win after getting physical with Ohio State. LSSU was able to take a 0-3 lead into second period after Troy Schwab scored two goals (5:33 PP and 11:19) in the first period and Dan Eves added another on the power play at 14:43. Steven Kaunisto, Perkovich, Will Action and MacVoy garnered the assists on the goals. The first period also saw the first of 4 sets of coincidental roughing minors called at 16:24 with Lee and OSU’s Johann Kroll being whistled. Ohio State scored their first goal of the game less than a minute into the second period with Jason Desantis scoring unassisted on the power play. OSU was able to pull the game to 2-3 with Corey Toy scoring at 5:56 of the period. LSSU was able to garner back a 2 goal lead with Will Acton scoring his second goal of the season at 9:06 with MacVoy and Matt Cowie assisting. OSU’s Goebel scored his 15th goal of the season to pull the buckeyes to within one goal again at 3-4. Nathan Perkovich notched his 13th goal of the season at 14:52 of the second period with Schwab assisting to give LSSU a 3-5 lead, and resulting in OSU starting goaltender Joseph Palmer being chased after the end of the second period. The second period also saw a second set of coincidental roughing minors being called on Josh Sim and OSU’s Shane Sims at 5:20. Ohio State was able to score two unanswered goals with Kyle Reed and Goebel putting the puck past Mahoney-Wilson at 3:26 and 7:12 respectively of the third period to tie the game up at 5-5. The third period also saw coincidental roughing minors going to Will Acton, Perkovich and OSU’s Corey Toy and Nick Biondo all at 15:04. OSU’s Goebel was also whistled for contacting LSSU’s goaltender Mahoney-Wilson at 18:44 of the third. LSSU’s Zac MacVoy was able to take advantage of the resulting power play scoring the game winner 42 seconds into the overtime period with Matt Cowie and Simon Gysbers getting assists on the game winning goal. Mahoney-Wilson made 31 saves on the 36 shots he faced to record his third win of the season, Ohio State’s Joseph Palmer gave up 5 goals on the 16 Laker shots he faced before he was relieved by Dustin Carlson after two periods, Carlson had 5 saves in the third period before giving up the game winning goal on LSSU’s only shot in the overtime period. LSSU went 5-for-8 on the power play (5-for-11 on the weekend), while Ohio State scored one power play goal on their 4 opportunities (going 3-for-8 on the weekend). Next weekend LSSU plays host to Ferris State University (10-11-3, 7-9-2 CCHA).