The University of Nebraska-Omaha strolled into Oxford, Oh for the final time as members of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and faced the top team in the country in a pivotal conference series. Miami fresh off a weekend sweep of Bowling Green clinched the #1 seed in the conference tournament and the Regular season title last weekend with 3-2 and 10-2 wins. UNO coming off an impressive home sweep of the University of Michigan came in holding onto the 4Th spot in the standings and the final first round bye seed for the conference playoffs.
Miami came out flying and got on the board first at when Jarrod Palmer (Fridley, Minn) scored at 1:41 of the first period. The goal was Palmer's team leading 15Th goal of the year, and later added two more assists to snag the team lead in points with 38. UNO was able to tie it up at the 9:17 mark when Alex Hudson (Corona, Cal) scored his first of two on the night. Miami didn't waste much time taking the lead back when Brandon Smith (Pepper Pike, Oh) scored his 6Th of the year with the assist going to Devin Mantha (Ann Arbor, MI) and Steve Mason (Stratford, Ont). Alex Hudson (Corona, Cal) added his second of the night on the power play at 15:26 to even things up after the first period at 2-2.
Justin Vaive (Toronto, Ont) got things started in the second period at 4:43 of the period when he had a nice re-direct of a shot from Will Weber (Gaylord, MI). Miami started to turn up the heat and had UNO back on their heals when UNO head coach Dean Blais decided to use his one and only time out half way through the second period. That however didn't make any difference as Miami extended their lead to 4-2 at the 13:11 mark when Pat Cannone (Bayport, Ny) lite the lamp for the 10th time of the year to make it 4-2. That score held up through the rest of the second period.
In the third little changed as Miami kept the pressure up peppering a total of 15 shots on goal in the period. Miami got goals from Reily Smith ( Mimico, Ont)and Trent Vogelhuber (Dublin, Oh) to give Miami a 6-2 victory. Cody Reichard (Celina, Oh) got his 16th win of the year stopping 19 of 21 shots faced.
Miami and UNO will face off again tonight at Goggin ice center at Steve Cady arena at 7:05 PM, game can be seen live on the Ohio News Network.
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