Falcons Soar to Game One Win in Mason Cup Quarterfinals
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green Falcons (17-13-4, CCHA 12-10-4) defeated the Michigan Tech Huskies (16-16-3, CCHA 12-11-3) in overtime by a score of 2-1 in game one of the CCHA Mason Cup Quarterfinals. In the win, junior Quinn Emerson scored his first game-winning goal of the season.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green Falcons (17-13-4, CCHA 12-10-4) defeated the Michigan Tech Huskies (16-16-3, CCHA 12-11-3) in overtime by a score of 2-1 in game one of the CCHA Mason Cup Quarterfinals. In the win, junior Quinn Emerson scored his first game-winning goal of the season.
Notables
- The Falcons take a 1-0 lead against the Huskies in the best of three series with tonight's win
- In the win, senior Christian Stoever made 20 saves including eight in the final frame
- Both junior Jaden Grant and junior Quinn Emerson scored their fifth goal of the season
- Sophomore Ben Doran extends his team best +9 rating
- Head Coach Dennis Williams records his first post season win as head coach of his alma mater
By The Numbers
- Goals: Two Tied (1)
- Assists: Multiple Tied (1)
- Points: Multiple Tied (1)
- Blocks: Two Tied (2)
- Shots: Quinn Emerson (5)
- +/-: Multiple Tied (+1)
- Saves: Christian Stoever (20)
- Face-offs: Ben Doran (9)
How It Happened
- The Falcons opened the scoring for the play-offs in the closing seconds of the opening period. At 19:40, in the first period junior Jaden Grant scored off a bouncing puck in front of the net. Sophomore Brody Waters took an initial shot, and the rebound came out in front of the goaltender. Grant took a couple shots on the Michigan Tech goaltender before one went into the back of the net to make it 1-0.
- Neither team scored a goal in the second period with the Falcons out shooting the Huskies 9 to 6 in the middle period.
- Michigan Tech at 1:32 into the third period scored with a bouncing puck that squeaked into the back of the net for the equalizer. Both teams were unable to score for the remained of regulation, sending the game into a 20 minutes continuous 5 on 5 overtime game.
- At 5:01 into the overtime, junior Quinn Emerson netted the golden goal to give the Falcons the game one win. Redshirt Senior Eric Parker passed the puck the length of the ice in the defensive end to sophomore Ben Doran. Doran and Emerson entered the zone on a 2 on 1 situation. Doran slid the puck across to Emerson, who shot it into the net.
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