BG’s Ryan Viselli (18) looks to move around Lake Superior’s Kyle Haines (Photo: Andrew Weber/Sentinel-Tribune)

Bowling Green suffered another frustrating and disappointing loss Friday night in the Ice Arena.
The Falcons started well, but Lake Superior scored three straight goals to erase a 1-0 deficit and then
held on for a 4-2 win in a Central Collegiate Hockey Association game. PHOTO GALLERY
The loss was the fifth straight for BG, last in the CCHA with records of 7-18-2 overall and 2-15-2-0 in
the league.
Jordan Samuels-Thomas gave BG with a 1-0 lead at 12:38 of the first period.
But the Lakers answered with Zach Trotman’s 5-on-3 power-play goal just 2:16 later, and increased the
lead to 3-1 in the second period on what Lake Superior coach Jim Roque called “two lucky goals.”
Domenic Monardo scored a power-play goal on a knuckleball from the right circle at 4:50 and Chad Nehring
scored on a tip of a point shot just 88 seconds later.
BG closed to within 3-2 on Nathan Pageau’s goal just 1:18 after Nehring scored.
The Falcons then had half a dozen good chances to tie the game in the third period, but couldn’t score.
The Lakers’ Will Acton then clinched the win with just 1:09 left in the game, thanks to a BG turnover.

“We still can’t find someone who wants to step up and make a play and then we turn the puck over,” BG
coach Chris Bergeron said.
BG is 0-10-2 in its last 12 league games, its last win coming Nov. 12.
Lake Superior out-shot BG by a 29-23 margin and won the special teams. The Laker power play was 2-of-7
and didn’t allow BG a goal in four attempts.
“It’s not the same person. It’s somebody different every time,” Bergeron said. “ … This team isn’t
living the lifestyle, not enough of us. That’s our job to find out and it’s our job to bring in more
people who are willing to live it because it is hard. Losing is easy. Winning is hard. But that’s up to
us to change it and we will.”
One of the bright spots for BG was the relief goaltending of Andrew Hammond, who stopped 14-of-15 shots
after taking over Nick Eno following the Lakers’ third goal. He made several outstanding saves to keep
the game at 3-1.
Eno wasn’t sharp, stopping only 11-of-14 shots.
“He played great. (I’m) real proud of Andrew,” Bergeron said of Hammond, who will start in Saturday’s
series finale. “He kept us in there.”
The BG power play had some good chances to score, although it was scoreless. It hasn’t scored a
power-play goal in the last six games, going 0-of-28.
“Our power play was OK,” Bergeron said. “There was some urgency, but, man, are we struggling making plays
around the net.”
The Lakers’ second power-play resulted from a missed shot block by BG. The Falcons are a minus-17 in
special teams goals this season.
“Broken record,” Bergeron said of BG’s special teams. “Anybody who thinks that special teams don’t play a
role, they’re kidding themselves. They absolutely do.”
Bergeron also was unhappy six of BG’s eight penalties were for hooking, holding, tripping and
interference — one led to the Lakers’ 5-on-3 goal, another led to Menardo’s power-play goal and another
wiped out a BG power play with just 1:21 remaining and the Falcons still trailing 3-2. Acton then scored
during the 4-on-4.
“Absolutely unacceptable,” Bergeron said. “We talk about it every single day. We don’t allow it in
practice. You find yourself out of shape. You don’t want to live the lifestyle of riding the bike,
taking care of your body, and doing all of the things that we will do as a program. That’s why we do it,
because it’s a man’s game out there.
“Lake Superior is a team that will expose you if you’re not ready to battle and that’s why you take
hooking and holding and tripping penalties. You’re not ready to battle. You’re lazy. That’s what we did,
at times.”
The Lakers, ninth in the CCHA, are 7-11-7, 5-8-6-4.
“We played really hard, we worked hard,” Roque said. “It wasn’t pretty, but it’s a good win on the road.”

LAKE SUPERIOR 4, BGSU 2
GOALS BY PERIOD
LAKE SUPERIOR 1 2 1 —4
BGSU
1 1 0 —2
FIRST PERIOD
Scoring: 1, BG Samuels-Thomas 7 (Wallace, Shea) 12:38. 2, LS Trotman 6 (Cowie, Schofield) 15:44 (5-3 pp).

Penalties: Peltoma, BG, interference, 14:25; Shea, BG, tripping, 15:03; Sternberg, LS, tripping, 19:31.

SECOND PERIOD
Scoring: 3, LS Monardo 9 (Schofield, Trotman) 4:50 (5-4 pp). 4, LS Nehring 4 (Hobbins) 6:18. 5, BG Pageau
1 (Fink, Viselli) 7:36. 6, LS Acton (Schofield) 18:51 (4-4 es).
Penalties: Acton, LS, cross-checking, 0:38; Grover, BG, hooking, 3:25; Peltoma, BG, holding, 8:40;
Nehring, LS, tripping, 13:18; Shea, BG, tripping, 15:42; Krelove, BG, elbowing, 17:40.
THIRD PERIOD
Scoring: 6, LS Acton 5 (Schofield) 18:51 (4-4 es).
Penalties: Hobbins, LS, roughing after the whistle, 7:10; Viselli, BG, roughing after the whistle, 7:10;
Perrault, LS, tripping, 17:40; Williamson, BG, interference,18:39.
SAVES BY PERIOD
Kapalka, LS 7 4 10 —21
Eno, BG
10 1 X —11
Hammond, BG X 5 9 —14
Goalie statistics (goals against/minutes played): (LS) Kapalka 2/60; (BG) Eno 3/26:18; Hammond 1/32:33,
Empty net 0/1:09.
Penalties-Minutes: LS 5-10, BG 8-16. Power plays: LS 2-7, BG 0-4. Attendance: 1,917.