{"id":96977,"date":"2011-01-03T18:10:30","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/atlantic-hockey-blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2011-01-03T18:10:30","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T00:10:30","slug":"weekend-wrap-up-1311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2011\/01\/03\/weekend-wrap-up-1311\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend wrap-up 1\/3\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tournaments, conference games and some non-con matchups were on the bill for a busy Holiday week.<\/p>\n
Air Force was the only team to pick up four league points over the break, sweeping Bentley in a pair of close contests. The Falcons from Colorado defeated the Falcons from Massachusetts 3-2 in overtime<\/a> last Thursday and then hung on for another 3-2 win<\/a> on Friday. The wins moved Air Force into a tie for third place in the Atlantic Hockey standings.<\/p>\n Another team to pick up two conference points was Connecticut, which bested Holy Cross in the first round of the UConn Holiday classic<\/a>. The game also counted in the AHA standings. The Huskies would go on to lose in the title game to Princeton, 4-1<\/a>, while Holy Cross dropped the consolation game 3-2<\/a> to Bowling Green.<\/p>\n Rochester Institute of Technology got a late goal from Tyler Brenner to defeat Robert Morris 3-2 <\/a>at Pittsburgh’s Consol Energy Center. The game was part of the NHL’s Winter Classic festivities. RIT solidified its claim on first place and now leads second-place Robert Morris by three points in the standings.<\/p>\n Army and Mercyhurst also participated in tournaments last week, with the Lakers finishing second in the Ledyard Bank Classic. Mercyhurst tied host Dartmouth 4-4<\/a> and then won a shootout 2-0 to advance. The Lakers fell 4-1 to No. 5 Boston College<\/a> in the title game.<\/p>\n Army dropped three games last week, a tough 2-1 overtime loss to No. 17 Merrimack and then a pair of defeats in the Vermont Catamount Cup. The Black Knights fell to Harvard 4-2<\/a> and then 5-3<\/a> to Ohio State<\/p>\n In straight up nonconference games, the AHA went 0-4, including Army’s loss to Merrimack, who also beat RIT 5-3<\/a>. Holy Cross and Cansius were blown out on the road, with the Griffs falling to Notre Dame 10-2<\/a> and Holy Cross losing at No. 1 Yale 10-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n I picked solo this week – guest analysts will return next week. I went 8-3-1 going into tonight’s game between Saint Lawrence and Sacred Heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tournaments, conference games and some non-con matchups were on the bill for a busy Holiday week. Air Force was the only team to pick up four league points over the break, sweeping Bentley in a pair of close contests. The Falcons from Colorado defeated the Falcons from Massachusetts 3-2 in overtime last Thursday and then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[772,1478],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow’d I do?<\/h4>\n