{"id":3716,"date":"2002-11-22T15:50:24","date_gmt":"2002-11-22T21:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/11\/22\/ferris-outduels-osu-keeps-ccha-lead\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:45","slug":"ferris-outduels-osu-keeps-ccha-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/2002\/11\/22\/ferris-outduels-osu-keeps-ccha-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferris Outduels OSU, Keeps CCHA Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t get any better than this.<\/p>\n

Two nationally-ranked teams with near-equal statistics, both fighting for respect. In the end, it was Ferris State that came away with a hard-fought 4-2 win over Ohio State in an intense, fast-paced game.<\/p>\n

Derek Nesbitt tallied the winning goal late in the second to lift the Bulldogs (10-3-0, 8-1-0 CCHA).<\/p>\n

\"Chris<\/p>\n
Chris Kunitz was a physical factor as well as a playmaker for the Bulldogs. (Photos by Christopher Brian Dudek)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Ferris’ Mike Kinnie drew first blood in the contest at 1:31. With the Bulldogs up a man, Matt York passed the puck to Kinnie, alone to the left of OSU goaltender Mike Betz. Kinnie wristed a shot past the diving goaltender to make it 1-0 in favor of Ferris.<\/p>\n

The power-play goal was the first allowed by the Buckeyes in 23 chances over five games.<\/p>\n

Ohio State (8-3-1, 5-1-1 CCHA) answered at 6:13. R.J. Umberger found himself all alone in front of Ferris State goaltender Mike [nl]Brown; Dan Knapp passed the puck to Umberger, who one-timed it past [nl]Brown to tie the game 1-1.<\/p>\n

Dave Steckel then put OSU up 2-1 at 12:15. [nl]Brown made a glove save off Paul Caponigri, but the puck slipped out of his glove and Steckel backhanded it into the open net. <\/p>\n

Ferris State tied the score again at 14:06 when Phil Lewandowski wristed a shot to the top left corner past Betz to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n

“I thought the game could have been 6-5 after that first period,” Bulldog coach Bob Daniels said. “Ohio State really carried the play the first 10 minutes of the game. I thought we were very fortunate to come out of that period tied 2-2.” <\/p>\n

\"Ohio<\/p>\n
Ohio State goaltender Mike Betz.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Both teams buckled down and played more conservatively in the second and third periods, and the game became more intense as the checking and physical play picked up.<\/p>\n

Ferris State scored the lone goal of the second period — the eventual game winner — at 15:41 off a tic-tac-toe passing play. Jeff Legue passed the puck to Chris Kunitz, who fed Nesbitt in the wheelhouse as he slapped a shot past the sprawling goaltender. <\/p>\n

The third period picked up right where the second left off, with more checking, a quickening pace, and key stops from both netminders.<\/p>\n

With that in mind, in a game of inches, a bounce can make all the difference. Nesbitt got that bounce at 18:02 of the third period to give the Bulldogs a two-goal cushion. Nesbitt tried a centering pass from behind the net that hit the heel of Betz’s stick and trickled into the net behind him to make it 4-2. <\/p>\n

“That was a very fortunate bounce, and that is what you need sometimes to beat excellent teams like Ohio State,” Daniels said. “It was a very fast, intense, and physical game. I expect Ohio State to come out harder tomorrow night.” <\/p>\n

Betz had 29 saves for OSU, [nl]Brown 31 for Ferris.<\/p>\n

Ferris State — which remained atop the CCHA with the win — and Ohio State play one more time on Saturday in Big Rapids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ferris State edged Ohio State, 4-2, Friday night in a battle of nationally-ranked teams atop the CCHA. Derek Nesbitt had the game winner for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}