by Ryan Gasser, Athletic Communications Graduate Assistant
Falcon freshman goaltender Andrew Hammond would get his first start of his collegiate career and would be tested early as in the first period alone, the Mavericks would put 13 shots on goal. Hammond recorded his first collegiate on a Ryan Galiardi slapper that Hammond would deflect with a kick save. He would save four consecutive shots against him, all within the first five minutes of play.
After killing eight consecutive Minnesota State power play opportunities, seven of which from last night, the Mavericks would make the best of their second power play of the night. After Brian Moore was penalized for tipping at 14:13 in the first period, Ryan Galiardi would crash the net when three Falcons went to help Hammond’s left side and slap one home past the freshman keeper to take a 1-0 advantage.
The second period would be a similar story to the opening period as against the Mavericks would out-shoot the Falcons by a wide margin, 17-6. Hammond would keep 16 of those out of the net, but the Mavericks would raise the rowdy crowd of 3,546 to their feet when the power play would once again benefit the Purple and Gold. Senior Tomas Petruska would be called for a hooking penalty with 1:09 left in the second period and forty-five seconds later the Mavericks would strike again. Kurt Davis would acquire the puck at the top of the slot and with lots of traffic between he and Hammond, Davis would flick a wrister below his glove to put MSU up two goals to none. Galiardi would get credit with an assist on the play for his second point of the contest.
The Mavericks would take the fewest shots on goal in the third period (11), but would double their lead in the process. Andrew Sackrison would find himself at the right place at the right time when an errant shot would bounce hard off the board and find his stick for an easy rebound shot that would sound the arena horns a minute into the final period. Bowling Green 0, Minnesota State 3.
The home team would not be stopped there as Galiardi would reemerge in the scorers column with another red lighter, his second on the night. After out-skating two BG defenders, he would take an open slap shot and blazed one past the glove of Andrew Hammond. With 13:06 remaining, the Mavericks would take a 4-0 lead.
Fresh off of MSU killing a Bowling Green power play, the Falcons would charge towards Murdock and follow up on a loose puck in front of the net. Boyd would scoop up the loose puck and shoot stick side on Murdock and beat him to his left from five feet out and put the Falcons on the board, 4-1.
Jordan Samuels-Thomas (Fr., F) would gain credit for the first assist, his third of the weekend, and senior assistant captain Tommy Dee would get the second assist.
The Bowling Green State University hockey team returned to the Alltel Center Saturday night for vengeance after their 3-2 loss the previous night, but came up short losing to Minnesota State, 4-1.
Falcon freshman goaltender Andrew Hammond would get his first start of his collegiate career and would be tested early as in the first period alone, the Mavericks would put 13 shots on goal.
“We’ll get back at practice on Monday,” said Williams. “It will be a tough one too. We learn from this and get tougher for next week.”
Bowling Green now falls to 0-2-0 on the young season and will return home next week for an exhibition match with the U.S. Under-18 Developmental team based out of Ann Harbor, Mich. on Friday, Oct. 16.
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