Sam Morton helped stall any upset thoughts with an early third period goal and Lucas Sowder provided the game-winner later in the period as the Mavericks snatched the first game of the best-of-three CCHA quarterfinal series.
Minnesota State kept the 109-year-old silver trophy in the comforts of its own home by winning the CCHA regular season championship on Saturday with a 5-1 victory over Bemidji State.
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THIS WEEKEND’S SERIES
• No. 19 Michigan Tech wraps up the regular season at No. 4 Minnesota State this weekend.
• The puck drops at 8:07 p.m. Friday and 7:07 p.m. Saturday at the Mayo Clinic Events Center in Mankato.
• The two teams split a nonconference series on December 6-7 in Houghton.
• The Huskies are 17-8-1 overall and 7-5 in the WCHA and have won three straight games.
100 YEARS AGO
The Michigan College of Mines played its first collegiate hockey game on January 27, 1921. MCM beat the University of Michigan 3-0 in the first game of the series at the Amphidrome and then lost 4-3 the next night at the Calumet Colosseum.