SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. —
Bowling Green’s story was familiar Saturday night.The Falcons didn’t defend well and couldn’t hold two
one-goal leads en route to a 4-3 loss to 16th-ranked Lake Superior in a Western Collegiate Hockey
Association game.The Lakers scored the final two goals as Dan Radke tied the game 3-3 with 8:57 left and
Bryce Schmitt tallied the game-winner just 2:59 later.Lake Superior completed a sweep of the series after a
4-3 win Friday when it also scored twice in the final period to erase a 3-2 deficit. BOX
SCORE“Their tying goal was not a good goal by Tomas,” BG coach Chris Bergeron said
of goalie Tomas Sholl. “He should have had that puck, that’s all there is to it. We need to get those saves.
We can’t have a bad goal every game and that’s what’s been happening, in terms of a puck we need to
have.”“Their winning goal, we have a defenseman standing next to their guy and he falls, and their guy
scores.”The Falcons have allowed three or more goals in six straight games, going 1-4-1 in that stretch.BG
is 6-7-3 overall and 4-5-1 in the WCHA. The Lakers are 9-4-1, 5-3.Five of BG’s last six contests have been
decided by one goal and the sixth was a 4-2 loss that saw Ferris State score into an empty net with 1:01 to
play for a two-goal margin.“It’s a combination of a number of different things which is the funk we’re in,”
Bergeron said. “We’re really, really finding ways to lose games. It’s not just one person. It seems to be a
different person each night.”Before the Lakers scored twice, BG erased a 2-1 deficit earlier in the third
period.Dan DeSalvo tied the game at 3:05, just 40 seconds after Garret Clement had given the Lakers the
lead. Dajon Mingo’s second goal of the game at 6:48 gave the Falcons a 3-2 lead.“We gave up a goal early in
the third period, but our guys fought back hard and got the lead,” Bergeron said.Mingo opened the scoring at
14:24 of the first period, but the Lakers tied the game on Radke’s goal with just 11.8 seconds left in the
second period after a BG turnover.Mingo’s two goals were his first since Feb. 2 last season as he snapped a
streak of 26 games without a goal. He had eight goals and 14 assists as a freshman last season.DeSalvo
finished with one goal and one assist. He had gone six games without a goal.The Falcons held a 35-32 edge in
shots, including a 15-8 margin in the third period.Neither team scored a power-play goal as BG was 0-of-4
and the Lakers were 0-of-3.Sholl made 28 saves, while the Lakers’ Kevin Murdock stopped 32 shots.BG played
without two of its top six forwards.Adam Berkle didn’t play Saturday after suffering what Bergeron called a
“lower-body injury” in the series opener. How long Berkle will be out won’t be known until the team returns
to BG, Bergeron said.BG already was without Ryan Carpenter, who hasn’t played this season because of a
broken finger and broken foot.Defenseman Connor Kucera was a healthy scratch Saturday.