The MCRHL Bounces into Joe Dumars Field House

            Michigan Tech (2-6-1)   vs.     Grand Valley State (6-1-2)

 

One of the best games of the weekend took place early on Sunday morning at 7 am when the Michigan Tech Huskies took on the Grand Valley State Lakers.  This is more than just a league game this is a DII match up that could have huge meaning come the end of the season.  These two teams had faced off earlier in the weekend with a 5 to 0 win for Grand Valley State.  Michigan Tech looked to even up the weekend by taking the early morning game.  Michigan Tech wanted to get a quick start to show that the earlier game did not have an effect on the psyche of the Huskies.  The Huskies accomplished their goal of getting off to a quick start by scoring the first goal of the game at 6:35 of the first period.  The goal was scored by Bryan Johnston from Niiko Rautiola and the Huskies were flying high.  The Lakers took awhile to get going but they were able to get the equalizer on the power play when Matthew Cook took a Holding penalty at 3:12 of the second period.  Their goal was scored by Ryan Gendron and was assisted by Kyle Chambers.  This evened the score at one a piece.  Less then two minutes later the Lakers would take the lead off the stick of Kyle Chambers when Stephen Hartford found Chambers to take a 2 to 1 lead at 39 seconds of the second period.  The Huskies would catch a brake when David Trahan of the Lakers was called for high sticking at 11:37 of the third period.  Michigan Tech’s Matthew Cook would take advantage of the extra skater when he beat Zak Kennedy of the Lakers at 9:45 of the third period to even the score back up at two.  Grand Valley State would come right back and take the lead back only 40 seconds later when Chambers found the back of the net for the second time of the game. At 6:30 of the third period the Huskies Brian Czech would be called for a roughing.  The Lakers would not waste any time when Stephen Harford took a pass from Ryan Gendron and beat Mike Panek to up the score to 4 to 2.  Michigan Tech would not give up without a fight and Brian Czech would make up for his earlier penalty when he scored at 1:15 of the third period to make the score 4 to 3.  The Huskies would not find the back of the net again and the Grand Valley State Lakers would come up with a 4 to 3 win to sweep the home and home series for this weekend.  The three stars of the game were #1 Kyle Chambers (GVSU) #2 Ryan Gendron (GVSU) and #3 Brian Czech (MTU).  The two goalies need to be recognized for their outstanding play as well.  Mike Panek (MTU) faced 47 shots and only gave up 4 goals while Zak Kennedy (GVSU) faced 33 shots and only gave up 3 goals.  The fans will surely be anticipating the next match up between these two awesome teams.