{"id":98501,"date":"2017-10-23T02:10:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wcha-blog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2020-06-22T04:31:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T09:31:15","slug":"weekend-wrapup-nonconference-successes-a-uah-first-and-yet-another-bgmsu-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2017\/10\/23\/weekend-wrapup-nonconference-successes-a-uah-first-and-yet-another-bgmsu-split\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend wrapup: Nonconference successes, a UAH first and (yet another) BG\/MSU split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things I noticed from the weekend that was in the WCHA:<strong>1. WCHA already looks better in nonconference<\/strong>It may be early, and it may be a small thing, but the WCHA is currently 10-14-4 against nonconference foes. Like I said, it&#8217;s still early, but consider: Last season conference teams were 17-48-5 against nonconference opponents for AN ENTIRE SEASON. They need just eight more wins to better last season&#8217;s total. It could be small, but every win will count next season to getting a possible second at-large bid. And perhaps even more encouraging is how league teams are playing against said opposition. Obviously Minnesota State got a huge sweep at Boston U last weekend, but this weekend saw some good series results against teams &#8212; Bemidji State split with No. 20 Air Force and Northern Michigan split a neutral-site series against No. 6 Wisconsin. Meanwhile, Lake Superior State managed a tie and a loss against defending national champs (and current No. 1) Denver &#8212; not the win the Lakers wanted but a solid result nonetheless. Even Ferris State, which split with Atlantic Hockey&#8217;s Mercyhurst, did well to get at least one win. Last season the odds are the Bulldogs would have been swept in that series.<strong>2. A first for Alabama Huntsville<\/strong>Coming into this weekend,&#160;Alabama Huntsville had never defeated Michigan Tech in 14 meetings. The Huskies had beaten the Chargers 12 times and tied twice, but UAH had never won &#8212; ever, at all, much less in Houghton (where UAH was 0-7-1). The Chargers nearly snapped the streak Friday &#8212; they were up 4-3 midway through the third period before Tech scored twice in the final 10 minutes to win 5-4. On Saturday, UAH wouldn&#8217;t be denied. Four different Chargers scored and Jordan Uhelski stopped 41 of 43 shots to nab UAH its first-ever victory over the Huskies. UAH is 1-3-0 overall this season but they&#8217;ve already scored 11 times &#8212; a small sample-size, for sure, but an encouraging sign for a team that sported a 2.18 goals-per-game average last season (second to last in the league).<strong>3. Falcons, Mavericks split again<\/strong>In what was the first conference series of the season for both teams, Bowling Green and Minnesota State shocked everyone by splitting their first series of the season. Just kidding &#8212; they shocked no one by doing this. <a href=\"http:\/\/mankatofreepresshockey.blogspot.com\/2017\/10\/falcons-5-mavericks-2.html\">As Shane Frederick pointed out on Saturday<\/a>, since BG joined the WCHA in 2013, the two teams have split every series they&#8217;ve played but one &#8212; and that series featured two ties. On Friday, MSU dominated, winning 4-1 thanks to three power-play goals. They outshot the Falcons 34-17. On Saturday, shots were more even (29-28 BG) but the Falcons shot out to a 4-0 lead and never looked back. Lukas Craggs scored twice in the win. The teams will meet again this season on Nov. 17-18 in Mankato. 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