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January 19th, 2002 Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID St. Norbert Holds Off Forester Comeback Attempts
The Green Knights, who are a perfect 8-0-0 in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association, opened the scoring when Ryan Wempe beat Brown on the power play in the first period. Junior forward Matt Bruni (Unionville, Ontario) got the Foresters on the board at 17:25, making the score 2-1, but St. Norbert star Maris Ziedins scored his first of two goals on the evening just over a minute later, making it 3-1 at the first intermission. Senior forward Andrew Jay (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) brought Lake Forest within one when his slapshot from just inside the St. Norbert blue line deflected off Ryan Tew's stick and flew past Ryan Gill into the upper-left corner of the goal. But Ziedins struck again at 7:31 of the second, regaining the two goal lead. Freshman forward Andrew Francone (Unionville, Ontario) pulled the Foresters to within one once again at the 13:52 mark. Senior forward Dan Holmes (Whitby, Ontario) passed the puck through traffic from the corner where Francone was waiting to fire it in. The cycle continued, however, and the Green Knights kept answering back to regain their two-goal cushion. Lake Forest looked like they might tie the game at five when they put significant pressure on the St. Norbert goal during two power plays late in the third, but they could not get the puck past Gill. The Foresters were swept for the second time this season, with the first coming on November 9-10th at UW-Eau Claire and at UW-Stevens Point. They have traditionally struggled when playing in DePere. The team's last win at St. Norbert was during the 1991-92 season. Lake Forest sits alone in sixth place in the NCHA as they travel to second-place UW-Superior this Friday (January 25th) night and seventh-place St. Scholastica this Saturday (January 26th) night. By Brian Monahan.
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