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OKLAHOMA 15, NDSU 0
The 6th-ranked University of Oklahoma® Hockey club opened their home season tonight with a 15-0 shellacking of visiting North Dakota State. The offensive output saw eleven different Sooners score goals and one record-setting performance by senior defenseman Greg Smith (Irvine, CA). Defenseman Austin Miller (Dallas, TX) set the tone for the evening by scoring from the blueline just 27 seconds into the game. Forward Doug Gebbie (Frisco, TX) scored the first of his two goals at 7:14 of the first stanza. Forward Adrian Borchgrevink (Kenai, AK) scored the next two goals for the Sooners and linemate Owen Brewer (Kenai, AK) rounded out the scoring in the first period with a goal just over a minute from the intermission. In the second period, forward Chris Nicolaou (Dallas, TX) scored OU's sixth goal of the night less than two minutes into the period and then it seemed as if the Sooners' offense went cold for a span of about 8 minutes. Forward Daniel Siira (Anchorage, AK) got the OU scoring machine back on track with goals at 10:02 and 14:40 of the middle period. Forwards Ryan Kenney (Scottsdale, AZ) and Justin King (DeWitt, MI) added goals in the last few minutes of the period to give OU a 10-0 lead after forty minutes of play. Forwards Kenny Deines (Highland Village, TX), Daryl Dee (Garland, TX) and Gebbie scored in the third period as did forward Sean McCauley (Naperville, IL), who added two goals of his own as OU coasted to a 15-0 win over the Bison.
Almost lost in all the scoring tonight was Smith's record setting evening. Smith set an OU Hockey record tonight with 7 assists on the evening, smashing the previous record of four assists in a game set by both Dan Carmody (vs. Missouri, October 17, 2003) and Jeff Janes (vs. Kansas, December 5, 2003).
Oklahoma goaltender Chad Helgason (Woodbury, MN) was a lonely man for long stretches of time tonight. Helgason earned his first shutout of the 2008-09 season by stopping all 12 shots he faced during the game. NDSU starting goaltender Tanner Muehler played just a smidge over half the game and faced 35 shots, stopping 28 of them before being relieved by fellow NDSU goalie Tim How, who himself stopped 27 of 35 shots in just under half the game. Neither team scored on the power play, with Oklahoma going 0 for 2 and NDSU going 0 for 3.
Oklahoma is now 4-1-0 while North Dakota State drops to 1-4-0. The same two teams play again Saturday night at 6:30 P.M. at Blazers Ice Centre in Oklahoma City.
North Dakota State 0 - 0 - 0 -- 0 Oklahoma 5 - 5 - 5 -- 15
FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, OU, Miller (unassisted), :27; 2, OU, Gebbie (Smith), 7:14; 3, OU, Borchgrevink (Miller), 11:08; 4, OU, Borchgrevink (Brewer), 14:02; 5, OU, Brewer (Smith), 18:45. Penalties: OU, Hayden (roughing), 16:17; OU, Johnson (interference), 19:20. SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 6, OU, Nicolaou (Siira), 1:50; 7, OU, Siira (Rombach, Smith), 10:02; 8, OU, Siira (Nicoloau), 14:40; 9, OU, Kenney (Allan, Miller), 17:44; 10, OU, King (Deines, Smith), 18:58. Penalties: NDSU, Schwarz (hooking), 4:01; OU, King (goaltender interference), 7:07; NDSU, Clementson (tripping), 11:08; OU, Smith (interference), 15:11. THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: 11, OU, Deines (Smith, Gebbie), 5:11; 12, OU, Dee (Miller, McCauley) 8:07; 13, OU, McCauley (Siira, Allan), 9:29; 14, OU, Gebbie (Hetrick, Smith), 9:58; 15, OU, McCauley (Smith), 11:14. Penalties: None. Shots on goal:
North Dakota State 5 5 4 - 14 Oklahoma 23 31 16 - 70
Goalies: OU, Helgason (12 shots, 12 saves); NDSU, Muehler (35, 28), How (35, 27). Referee: Rex. Linesmen: Mercer, LaForce. OKLAHOMA 8, NDSU 0
The 6th-ranked University of Oklahoma® Hockey club completed the sweep during the opening weekend with a workmanlike 8-0 drubbing of North Dakota State. Defenseman Robert Hetrick (Tulsa, OK) got the Sooners on the board with a power play goal at the 10:33 mark of the first period. Forward Sean McCauley (Naperville, IL) scored less than a minute later and forward Kyle Allan (Flagstaff, AZ) added another just 21 seconds after McCauley's goal to put OU up 3-0 in the first period. Fifty-four seconds into the second period, Hetrick scored his second goal of the night, a short-handed marker that was the end result of a nifty two-on-one with forward Doug Gebbie (Frisco, TX). Forward Adrian Borchgrevink (Kenai, AK) scored at 6:56, defenseman Greg Smith (Irvine, CA) scored on the power play at 9:14, Allan scored again at 11:01 and forward Jarrod Yost (Murphy, TX) topped off the scoring at the 13:00 mark. The remainder of the game was more or less spent waiting for the final buzzer to sound. When it mercifully went off, the 8-0 final capped off a 23-goal scoring performance on the weekend and back-to-back shutouts.
Oklahoma goaltender Matt Pombo (Allen, TX) earned the shutout for the Sooners, stopping all 14 shots from the Bison. NDSU starting goaltender Tim How faced 26 shots, stopping 19 of them before being relieved by fellow NDSU goalie Tanner Muehler, who stopped 17 of 18 shots. Oklahoma was 2 for 5 on the power play while NDSU went 0 for 4.
Oklahoma improves to 5-1-0 while North Dakota State drops to 1-5-0. Oklahoma will take the OU/Texas weekend off and will resume play on Friday, October 17th in Chicago against No. 24 Robert Morris College.
North Dakota State 0 - 0 - 0 -- 0 Oklahoma 3 - 5 - 0 -- 8
FIRST PERIOD -- Scoring: 1, OU, Hetrick (McCauley, Borchgrevink), 10:33 (pp); 2, OU, McCauley (Johnson, Hallberg), 11:18; 3, OU, Allan (Kenney, McCauley), 11:39. Penalties: OU, Siira (ten-minute misconduct), 3:03; NDSU, Swoboda (tripping), 9:25. SECOND PERIOD -- Scoring: 4, OU, Hetrick (Gebbie), :54 (sh); 5, OU, Borchgrevink (Deines), 6:54; 6, OU, Smith (Dee), 9:14 (pp); 7, OU, Allan (McCauley), 11:01; 8, OU, Yost (Gebbie, Dee), 13:00. Penalties: OU, Nicolaou (check from behind), :10; OU, Siira (roughing), 3:05; NDSU, Schwarz (slashing), 7:44; OU, Deines (boarding), 16:23. THIRD PERIOD -- Scoring: None. Penalties: NDSU, Hengstler (high sticking), 8:20; NDSU, Hengstler (check from behind), 11:20; OU, Miller (kneeing), 14:59; NDSU, Arrones (tripping), 15:58. Shots on goal:
North Dakota State 7 6 1 - 14 Oklahoma 17 13 14 - 44
Goalies: OU, Pombo (14 shots, 14 saves); NDSU, How (26, 19), Muehler (18, 17). Referee: Mariconda. Linesmen: Mercer, LaForce. |
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