Mar 28, 2009 09:03:48 - by Brian Schultz
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It's Gameday!
Notre Dame is good...no doubt about that. But as yesterday proved (when three of the four winners were underdogs) anything can happen in a one-and-done tournament.

I will be updating a few things here before faceoff...check for updates below!

Here's the matchup with the Fighting Irish:

 	                Bemidji State        Notre Dame 

Record	                18-15-1	             31-5-3

Head-to-Head	        0-0-0	             0-0-0

Goals	                96 / 2.82	     134 / 3.44

Goals Against	        91 / 2.68	     64 / 1.64

Power Play	        20.9%	             23.0%

Penalty Kill	        84.8%	             89.7%

Avg. Height / Weight	5'10" / 177.58 lbs.  5'11" / 189.96 lbs.

Avg. Age	        22y 6m	             21y 7m

Coach	                Tom Serratore	     Jeff Jackson



Team Scoring Leaders    M. Read 13-22-35     E. Condra 13-25-38

                        T. Scofield 18-14-32 C. Ridderwall 17-15-32

                        B. Hunt 9-22-31      C. Hanson 16-15-31

                        M. Francis 12-12-24  K. Deeth 4-27-31

                        B. Marino 7-12-19    B. Maday 16-14-30

 

Team Goaltenders        M. Dalton 17-10-1    J. Pearce 30-5-3

                        O. Alamano 1-5-0     T. O'Brien	1-0-0 

The NCAA doesn't allow radio stations or newspapers to blog from games...but the BSU Sports Information Office will be. It can be viewed during the game here

4pm Eastern Update I was downstairs waiting for the early game to start, and was trying to watch the UND - UNH game. Why is lacrosse a sport? I've never really watched it before today, but Virgina and Maryland went into SEVEN overtimes. So, no playoff hockey to be watched! Instead I was tortured by watching an hour of lacrosse in which NOBODY scored. In the hockey game during that same stretch, SIX goals were scored!

4:10pm Eastern Update Here are the lines for tonight's second semifinal:

Notre Dame
Garrett Regan - Christian Hanson - Christiaan Minella
Ryan Thang - Ben Ryan - Erik Condra
Calle Ridderwall - Kevin Deeth - Billy Maday
Dan Kissel - Justin White - Ryan Guentzel

Ian Cole - Kyle Lawson
Brett Blatchford - Teddy Ruth
Luke Lucyk - Sean Lorenz

Jordan Pearce
Tom O'Brien
Brian Brooke

Bemidji State
Tyler Scofield - Matt Read - Matt Francis
Jamie MacQueen - Travis Winter - Tyler Lehrke
Ben Kinne - Shea Walters - Ryan Cramer
Ian Lowe - Chris McKelvie - Brandon Marino

Brad Hunt - Cody Bostock
Chris Peluso - Graham McManamin
Ryan Adams - Kyle Hardwick

Matt Dalton
Orlando Alamano
Dan Bakala

4:20pm Eastern Update Attendance for the early game is TERRIBLE! There might be 1000-1500 people here.



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