{"id":96615,"date":"2006-10-23T13:31:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T18:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/2006\/10\/23\/and-were-off\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T13:31:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T18:31:52","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2006\/10\/23\/and-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And We&#8217;re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were enough games this past weekend to consider the Division II\/III season officially underway, although some teams won&#8217;t start practicing for two more weeks. But let&#8217;s look at what did transpire over the weekend:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cortland State is off to a 2-0 start after winning just four games all of last season. The SUNYAC Challenge champions allowed just one goal on the weekend with a 3-0 win over host Brockport and a 2-1 victory against Fredonia. The Red Dragons&#8217; main weapon? Freshman goalie Ben Binga. Cortland was outshot 37-22 on Friday and 46-13 on Saturday. That&#8217;s 83 saves on 84 shots.<\/li>\n<li>Morrisville kicked off its first season of varsity play the hard way on 10\/15 at seventh-ranked Oswego. The Lakers outshot the Mustangs 53-11 en route to a 9-1 win. But thanks to some better goaltending, the results were respectable this past weekend with a 5-3 loss to fourteenth-ranked Geneseo and a 6-3 defeat at the hands of Number Twelve Plattsburgh.  Travis Moore made 51 saves in the first game and 46 in the second. The Mustangs&#8217; next games will be against the other new Division III school, Becker College, this weekend. Morrisville will face Becker four times this season out of its 17 NCAA games.<\/li>\n<li>Oswego christened its new rink with a 3-2 win over Utica. A sellout crowd of 2.980 was on hand. I&#8217;m planning on being up there for the Pathfinder Bank Oswego Hockey Classic in December. I&#8217;m giving up a roadtrip with RIT to Army that weekend, but it&#8217;s just too good a tournament to pass up.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, in the &#8220;I&#8217;m really old&#8221; department, I remember teaching the aforementioned Ben Binga in my seventh grade religious education class. And it seems like yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were enough games this past weekend to consider the Division II\/III season officially underway, although some teams won&#8217;t start practicing for two more weeks. But let&#8217;s look at what did transpire over the weekend: Cortland State is off to a 2-0 start after winning just four games all of last season. 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