Lake Forest and UW-Superior Play to 2-2 Tie to Open Playoffs
Tomorrow night's game will decide who will advance
  

Joel Cameron saved 62 of 64 shots on goal Friday night.

Forester freshman goaltender Joel Cameron (Markham, Ontario) faced a barrage of 22 shots and turned away each and every one of them in the scoreless first period. Lake Forest managed just five shots on goal in the opening frame.

The second period was similar to the first as Cameron stopped all 17 shots the home team put on goal. All six shots from the Foresters were saved as well.

Superior finally broke the scoreless tie at the 7:51 mark of the third period. With exactly nine minutes left in regulation, Lake Forest sophomore forward Adrian Wong (Richmond, British Columbia) scored an unassisted short-handed goal, his seventh score of the season. The Foresters took their first lead of the game just 17 seconds later when junior forward Matt Bruni (Unionville, Ontario) set up freshman forward Andrew Francone (Unionville, Ontario) for his eighth goal of the 2001-02 campaign. The Yellowjackets tied the score at two at the 15:34 mark.

Cameron recorded 21 more saves in the third and added a pair in the scoreless five-minute overtime, giving him 62 in the game, the highest total for an NCHA goalie this season.

In the league playoffs, teams play a pair of regulation games, followed by a 20-minute "mini-game," if necessary. In this series, that extra game will only be needed if the teams are tied after 65 minutes of play in Saturday night's game, which will begin at 7:05 PM.

In other NCHA Playoff action, top-seeded St. Norbert College defeated the College of St. Scholastica 8-1. UW-Stevens Point, the #3 seed, knocked off UW-Stout 5-1. Finally, fourth-seeded UW-River Falls defeated UW-Eau Claire 4-2. The winner of the series between the Foresters and the Yellowjackets will take on the winner of the Stevens Point-Stout match-up.

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