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OMAHA, Neb. (UND Athletics) – After clinching the National Collegiate Hockey Conference’s regular season title with two weeks remaining, UND head coach Brad Berry took the opportunity to allow some players that were not at full-strength health-wise a brief respite with a single game at Omaha in the road finale of the season. That meant three of UND’s leading scorers all stayed back in Grand Forks while junior Jasper Weatherby continued his hot streak to lift the Fighting Hawks to a 4-2 win Friday evening at Baxter Arena.
Shane Pinto (28 points), Jordan Kawaguchi (26 points) and Grant Mismash (18 points) were all out of the lineup along with Gabe Bast but the UND power play maintained its torrid pace over the past few weeks as North Dakota tallied three more PPGs in the win. North Dakota has now gone 6-for-9 with the man advantage in its last two wins (both over Omaha) and has tallied eight PPGs on an Omaha penalty kill unit that has allowed ju
No. 10 Omaha Rallies to Down Colorado College, 3-2
OMAHA, Neb. Despite a pair of goals from senior co-captain Grant Cruikshank, Colorado College dropped a 3-2 decision to 10
th-ranked Omaha Saturday at Baxter Arena.
Kirby Proctor scored from the left point with 61 seconds left in the third period to break a 2-2 deadlock. The Mavericks (13-6-1) rallied from a 2-0 deficit to sweep the six-game series with the Tigers this season.
Cruikshank, who missed six games with appendicitis and returned to the lineup Friday night, opened the scoring at the 13:10 mark of the first. He slid down the slot, took a pass from Hunter McKown and beat Omaha goalie Isaiah Saville from the inside of the right circle for his team-high seventh goal of the season.
GRAND FORKS, N.D.– University of North Dakota junior starting goalie
Adam Scheel has been named to the Mike Richter Award Watch List, announced Tuesday. He is one of five NCHC goaltenders on the initial list for the top goalie in college hockey and one of 35 in the country after a smashing start to his 2020-21 season.
The Lakewood, Ohio product has five wins over nationally-ranked opponents this season and his 12 wins for the year rank second in the NCAA. He sports a 1.99 goals against average and a .927 save percentage for the year with a sparkling 12-3-1 record in net. He’s added three shutouts to his resume this season and has allowed one goal or fewer in seven of his 16 starts, including five in the month of January alone.
OMAHA, Neb. Isaiah Saville turned aside 43 shots as Nebraska-Omaha held off North Dakota to gain a split in their National Collegiate Hockey Conference weekend series.
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OMAHA, Neb. (UND Athletics) – If Friday’s opener with Omaha is any indication of what’s to come, the final month of the regular season will be action-packed. North Dakota and the Mavs began a stretch where the teams will meet six times over UND’s final eight games and the Fighting Hawks’ 6-2 win was hard-fought, scrappy and North Dakota actually trailed in the second period before five unanswered goals lengthened UND’s lead in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference.
Just 1:25 in the game, the Fighting Hawks gave themselves the early advantage. Shane Pinto came out of a tie-up in the corner and backhanded a pass to freshman Cooper Moore at the point. Moore fired a shot that traveled through tons of traffic but found its way past Isaiah Saville. It was his second goal in as many weeks and helped give the visitors an edge off the jump.