Bowling Green generated ample scoring chances Saturday night in the Ice Arena.
Unfortunately for the Falcons, they had a difficult time solving Ferris State goalie
C.J. Motte.
The sophomore made 29 saves to lead the 20th-ranked Bulldogs to a 3-1 win in a
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His goaltending enabled Ferris to complete a sweep of the series on a night it was
out-shot by a 30-15 margin.
He had 11 saves in the first period, and nine stops in each of the final two periods.

Kyle Bonis and Travis Ouellette each had one goal and one assist for the Bulldogs,
who never trailed to move to 6-4-2 overall and 5-3 in the CCHA.
The Falcons (2-8-3, 1-5-2-1) have scored just 23 goals in 13 games, including eight
games with two or fewer goals.
“We’re getting chances, but we need to capitalize and take that momentum and build
off of it,” said forward Bryce Williamson, whose rebound goal 2:07 into the
third period brought BG within 2-1.
But Ferris clinched the win on Ouellette’s empty-net goal with just 30 seconds to
play.
Scoring wasn’t expected to be a major issue for BG, which averaged 2.9 goals per game
only the last 10 games last season. All of BG’s top forwards from last season
returned.
“We’re just not bearing down around their net,” BG coach Chris Bergeron said. “C.J.
Motte’s a good goalie, but we’re not bearing down. I don’t think we’re that
offensively challenged. I just don’t think we have any idea what it means to be
intense, at least not enough, and that comes back to me.We’re getting
opportunities. It’s just a matter of making it happen.”
Motte stopped 62-of-66 shots in the series to improve his goals-against average to
2.20 and save percentage to .928. He stopped 33 shots in Friday’s 4-3 overtime
win.
Ferris, which never trailed in the two games, helped Motte by blocking 36 of BG’s 123
total shot attempts in the series.
“He was really good all weekend,” Williamson said. “We had quite a few good chances
to get leads, but we just weren’t able to do so. He always seemed to be in the
right place at the right time.”
“It was just a great weekend for him,” Ferris coach Bob Daniels said.
BG was decent during parts of the first two periods and so-so in the third period
Saturday.
Ferris took a 2-0 lead on goals from Andy Huff at 14:12 of the first period and Kyle
Bonis at 17:57 of the second period.
“We were way too inconsistent. Consistency is something we’ve struggled with,”
Bergeron said. “We paint ourselves into a corner and then we start fighting.
That’s too late. Our margin for error is so small and teams like Ferris State
expose you.”
The teams played a physical game that was nasty at times.
“We got timely goals,” Daniels said. “I don’t think either team had as many scoring
chances as we saw Friday. Even though we were out-shot, I felt better about
tonight’s game. We made some strides tonight.”
“It seems when we have a chance, we don’t score and it comes right back down and (the
other team) scores,” Williamson said.
The BG power play was 1-of-5, while Ferris was 1-of-4.
The Bulldogs’ power-play goal came after a poor BG line change.
BG’s Tommy Burke made 12 saves as he split starts with Andrew Hammond for the second
straight weekend.
“Just the rotation and … (Burke) had played well enough to deserve to play,”
Bergeron said of why Burke started.
Bergeron also said Hammond didn’t play because he’ll start Wednesday at No. 13
Michigan, BG’s third game in six nights.