{"id":96553,"date":"2016-02-04T21:50:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/womens-d3-blog\/?p=883"},"modified":"2016-02-04T21:50:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T03:50:18","slug":"weekend-picks-feb-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2016\/02\/04\/weekend-picks-feb-5-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Picks: Feb. 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just two more weekends of the regular season after this one. If that isn&#8217;t enough motivation for some of these D-III women&#8217;s teams, I&#8217;m not sure what is. Candace and Matt are back again to forecast the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday-Saturday, Feb. 5-6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Concordia (Minn.) at No. 8 St. Thomas<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> St. Thomas had a rough weekend last week, but I think they rally here. <strong>St. Thomas 3-2, 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matt:<\/strong> UST dropped four places in the poll this week after losing three straight last week. Ouch. Doesn&#8217;t sound like a team that&#8217;s peaking at the right time. The hard times continue this weekend, but not as bad as last week. <strong>Concordia 5-4 (OT), St. Thomas 3-2 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, Feb. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Franklin Pierce at Holy Cross<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> I will generally pick my alma mater in a tight game. <strong>Holy Cross 3-2<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matt:<\/strong> Two teams with outstanding records, so what gives? Each team has solid forwards, &#8216;D,&#8217; and goaltending. Sounds like a tight game to me. <strong>Holy Cross 2-1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday-Sunday, Feb. 6-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cortland at No. 1 Plattsburgh<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> Given how the Cardinals handled Elmira last weekend, I foresee easy wins for the home team. <strong>Plattsburgh 5-1, 4-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matt:<\/strong> Cortland is above .500 at 9-8-1, but Plattsburgh has 11 more wins, eight fewer losses, and one less tie. Yeah, so, it has to be a Cardinals sweep here. <strong>Plattsburgh 5-1, 4-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday, Feb. 9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No. 2 Adrian at No. 7 Wisconsin-River Falls<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Candace:<\/strong> A marquee matchup that should be decided by a goal. I&#8217;m picking the visitors. <strong>Adrian 3-1<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Matt:<\/strong> Adrian should sweep St. Scholastica this coming weekend and River Falls should be Wisconsin-Superior, but is there enough gas in the tank for Adrian to get two more points out of River Falls? You bet. <strong>Adrian 4-2<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just two more weekends of the regular season after this one. If that isn&#8217;t enough motivation for some of these D-III women&#8217;s teams, I&#8217;m not sure what is. Candace and Matt are back again to forecast the weekend. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 5-6 Concordia (Minn.) at No. 8 St. Thomas Candace: St. Thomas had a rough weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1467,1468],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Weekend Picks: Feb. 5 - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just two more weekends of the regular season after this one. 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