The Ohio club hockey team traveled to Kent State during the weekend for a series with the Golden Flashes.
The Bobcats returned to campus with two more wins, 4-3 Friday and 6-2 Saturday.
Ohio (5-1, 4-0 Central States Collegiate Hockey League) did not trail the whole weekend. Robert DiPippa started the series off when he scored in the first period Friday night. Brandon Steffek, Dave Fitzgerald and Paul Warriner all had goals in the second period, putting Ohio up 4-0.
Freshman goalie Paul Marshall got his first start between the pipes and had 17 saves. Marshall received his first playing opportunity during the second game against Eastern Michigan. In Marshall's first three periods, he did not allow a goal. Paul showed last week that he could play
and we wanted to give the hot goalie a chance to extend his shutout streak assistant coach Cody Loughlean said. We just wanted to get the freshman some experience.
Marshall had 17 saves off 20 shots on goal by the Flashes, who have yet to win in CSCHL play. Before the game, coach Dan Morris talked about how his team needed to play 120 minutes of high intensity hockey. According to Loughlean, the Bobcats came up 20 minutes short.
I think we played 100 minutes at the intensity that we want Loughlean said. The third period of Friday's game almost cost us the game.
Saturday night was full of intensity from the Bobcats. Steffek started it off in the first period with his second goal for the weekend and third goal for the year.
Justin Althof then put two in for the Bobcats, putting them up 3-1 after one period. Ryan Tessmer and Brandon Hanley also had goals in the Bobcats' victory.
Goalie Ryan Baksh started the second game, which is his first action since being pulled from the Eastern Michigan game.
Ryan and Paul both played great this weekend
Loughlean said. It's good to know that we have two guys who can be a starting goalie for us.
This was a good weekend
very successful
Morris said.
If there was one negative aspect of the weekend for the Bobcats, it was power play goals. Ohio only had one power play goal all weekend, which can be very costly.
We are working on that in practice
Loughlean said. In the college game
special teams are very important and we need to take advantage of power play opportunities.
The Bobcats may have only scored one power play goal, but they also only gave up one power play goal.
Our penalty kill guys came up big
Loughlean said. It made up for our lack of power play goals.
The Bobcats are home next weekend against Iowa State and will be trying to extend their five-game winning streak. Iowa State is currently undefeated in CSCHL play.
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