Spring Break
Red and White sweep Northern Michigan
Erika Hadley
Issue date: 11/3/09 Section: Sports
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The No. 1 Miami University men's ice hockey team netted six total second period goals - including four on the power play - to complete a series sweep of NMU during Halloween weekend. The brotherhood has now outscored its opponents 17-8 in the middle frame. The Wildcats - who have yet to win a game at home - fell to 1-4-1 overall and 0-2-0 in the CCHA, while the back-to-back 4-3 and 2-1 victories lifted the RedHawks to 6-1-1 overall and 3-1-0 in conference play. Sophomore goalie Cody
Reichard played between the pipes both nights for the Red and White and turned away a total of 50 shots, garnering first star accolades at the conclusion of Saturday night's contest.
After a scoreless first frame, Miami netted four unanswered goals in the second stanza during Friday night's contest, and then survived a three-goal rally effort by the Green and Gold in the final frame to come away with the W.
Junior Justin Vaive opened scoring and earned his first career multi-point game with back-to-back goals at 3:06 and 3:47 of the second period. Vaive's first tally came on the man-advantage after NMU sophomore Andrew Cherniwchan was whistled for tripping. Then, 41 seconds later, the forward from Toronto struck again, this time off a pass from sophomore Andy Miele.
"After the first we realized we weren't playing our best game and we came out in the second looking for something more," Vaive said. "Northern is always a physical team. I've played them for three years now, and last year in the playoffs and we knew coming into it that they were going to battle hard and that they were a physical team. So it was a good feeling to get the goals and they came at a good time."
At 9:41, Cherniwchan received his second game disqualification in three games for ripping off freshman Curtis McKenzie's helmet during a scuffle in front of the NMU net, granting the Red and White a five-minute power play. RedHawk D-liners freshman Joe Hartman and sophomore Cameron Schilling combined for Miami's third tally of the night at 12:14 when Schilling fed the puck to Hartman at the right circle for a one-timer past senior Wildcat net minder Brian Stewart.
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