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| Illini
take the wind out of the Cyclones. |
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The
Illini face off against the Cyclones |
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| January
25, 2004 - With two wins this past weekend
against Iowa State the Illini lock in second place
in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League. Missing
two veteran players from their line up, and outstanding
play from two netminders, the Illini trounced the
Cyclones on Friday evening, 10-1, and shut them out,
2-0, on Saturday. In Friday nights game, four Illini
players netted two goals each, starting with Pat
Olson who put the first of the Illini points on the
board with an unassisted goal. Sophomore Mike Roesch,
who has been coming on strong lately, scored his
first of two goals near the thirteen minute mark
in the first period as he took a pass from Tom Fullerton
and cut through the Cyclone defense. With the Illini
down two men because of penalties, the Cyclones put
on the pressure and were able to capatalize on
the 5 on 3 power play as the puck came from a crowd
in
front of the net and squirted past Illini goal tender
Mike DeGeorge. That brought the Cyclones within one,
but that was going to be that last thing getting
past DeGeorge that night. In the second period the
flood gates opened as the Illini scoring machine
kept on finding its mark. Again Pat Olson was the
one to start off the periods scoring and again he
was unassisted scoring a power play goal. Half way
through the period, the Illini put in two more goals
just 29 seconds apart, the first was a Brian Coleman
goal, assisted by Andy Lubesnick and Mike Roesch,
and the second was from the stick of Justin Stock,
with Pat Olson and Brett Duncan helping out. With
five goals tallied against their netminder, the Cyclones
tried to plug the leak with a fresh body in net.
Just minutes later Freshman forward Marshall Chubirka
made him feel welcome as put the sixth Illini goal
on the board, the assist going to Mike Kincaid. In
the third period and the Illini down a man, the Illini
penalty killers put the pressure on the Cyclones
and Mike Roesch found himself with the puck, and
flew into the ISU zone alone and put the puck past
their goaltender. Half way through the third period,
Brian Coleman would net his second goal of the evening
with Roesch on the assiting end. A minute and a half
later, the Illini would put their ninth point on
the board as Junior Clay Estabrooke put in his first
of two goals for the night, assisting was Marshall
Chubirka and Mike Kincaid. And with just a minute
and a half left on the clock Chubirka and Kincaid
team up again, this time with Brett Pachol also assisting
to top off the Illini scoring at 10. |
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