Michigan
22-11-5,16-9-3CCHA
Michigan State
28-4-4,21-4-3CCHA
U-M Drops Regular-Season Finale at Michigan State
3/1/2001 12:00:00 AM | Ice Hockey
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The sixth-ranked University of Michigan ice hockey team went down 3-1 to top-ranked Michigan State on Thursday night (March 1) at Munn Ice Arena. The Wolverines' lone goal was scored by Mike Cammalleri (Richmond Hill, Ontario), his 22nd of the season.
Michigan finishes the regular season with a 22-11-5 overall record and have clinched at least a tie for second in the CCHA with a 16-9-3 mark. In order for the Wolverines to earn the No. 2 seed for the CCHA playoffs, Michigan needs Miami -- which is two points behind U-M in the CCHA standings and owns the tiebreaker -- to lose or tie tomorrow night (Friday, March 2) when the RedHawks host Ohio State.
The first period was a scoreless draw, and Wolverine goaltender Josh Blackburn (Choctaw, Okla.) was the story. Blackburn stopped all of the 10 shots he faced, including five quality scoring chances and three breakaway attempts.
The second period appeared to emulate the previous session until Spartan Brad Fast cracked Blackburn's armor with a power-play goal at 10:07 to give Michigan State a 1-0 lead. The Wolverines failed to employ their offensive weapons and found themselves down 2-0 after Troy Ferguson found the back of the net at 14:50.
A frustrated Michigan team let things get out of hand in the third when Scott Matzka (Port Huron, Mich.) received a 10-minute misconduct penalty and a game misconduct for openly disagreeing with a holding call while U-M was on the penalty kill. The Spartans took advantage of the five-on-three and took a commanding 3-0 lead at 3:35.
With five and half minutes remaining the Wolverines evaded the shutout when Jay Vancik (Medina, Ohio) fired a shot which was tipped by Geoff Koch (Exeter, N.H.) and Cammalleri was at the net to put in the rebound.
The Wolverines will regroup and prepare for the first round of the CCHA playoffs at Yost Ice Arena. The best-of-three series will begin on Friday (March 9) at 7:35 p.m., and Michigan's first-round opponent could be Northern Michigan, Ferris State, Alaska-Fairbanks, Notre Dame or Bowling Green.
GAME SUMMARY
| Goals By Period | 1 | 2 | 3 | F |
| Michigan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Michigan State | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
1st period
PENALTIES - Andrew Hutchinson, MSU (HOOKING) 09:52; Andy Hilbert, MICH (HOOKING) 13:10; Damon Whitten, MSU (HIGH STICKING) 13:22; Mike Komisarek, MICH (HIGH STICKING) 13:22.
2nd period
1, MSU, Brad Fast 4 (Troy Ferguson, Damon Whitten) 10:07 (pp).
2, MSU, Troy Ferguson 4 (Damon Whitten) 14:50.
PENALTIES - Jeff Jillson, MICH (CROSS-CHECKING) 05:11; Geoff Koch, MICH (CROSS-CHECKING) 09:24; Scott Matzka, MICH (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 10:38.
3rd period
3, MSU, Brian Maloney 12 (Rustyn Dolyny, John-Michael Liles) 03:35 (pp).
4, MICH, Mike Cammalleri 22 (Geoff Koch, Jay Vancik) 14:36.
PENALTIES - Andrew Hutchinson, MSU (HOOKING) 00:28; Jay Vancik, MICH (TRIPPING) 02:11; Scott Matzka, MICH (HOLDING) 03:03; Scott Matzka, MICH (10-MINUTE MISCONDUCT) 03:03; Scott Matzka, MICH (GAME MISCONDUCT) 03:35; Joe Markusen, MSU (MINOR PENALTY) 05:24; Andy Burnes, MICH (SLASHING) 19:29; Brian Maloney, MSU (SLASHING) 19:29.
Shots on goal: MICH 10-11-11-32; MSU 10-13-8-31. Power plays: MICH 0 of 3; MSU 2 of 5. Penalties: MICH 10 (36 min); MSU 5 (10 min). Goalies: MICH, Josh Blackburn 20-11-5 (31 shots-28 saves); MSU, Ryan Miller 26-4-4 (32-31). Referee: Steve Piotrowski. Assistant Referees: Butch Friedman, Kevin Langseth. Attendance: 7121. Time: 2:23.
Individual Player Statistics
## Michigan G A PIM Sh +/- ## Michigan State G A PIM Sh +/- --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- 3 Bob Gassoff........ 0 0 0 0 0 2*Jon Insana......... 0 0 0 1 -1 4 Andy Burnes........ 0 0 2 2 0 4 John-Michael Liles. 0 1 0 1 +1 5*Jeff Jillson....... 0 0 2 2 0 5 Joe Markusen....... 0 0 2 1 0 8 Mike Komisarek..... 0 0 2 2 0 6 Steve Clark........ 0 0 0 0 0 9 Mark Kosick........ 0 0 0 1 0 7 Tim Hearon......... 0 0 0 0 0 10 Scott Matzka....... 0 0 24 2 -1 9*Sean Patchell...... 0 0 0 1 -1 11 Joe Kautz.......... 0 0 0 1 0 11 Steve Jackson...... 0 0 0 0 0 13*Mike Cammalleri.... 1 0 0 2 +1 14 Damon Whitten...... 0 2 2 3 +1 14 Craig Murray....... 0 0 0 2 -1 15 Steve Swistak...... 0 0 0 0 0 15 Jay Vancik......... 0 1 2 2 0 16 Kris Koski......... 0 0 0 0 0 18 Geoff Koch......... 0 1 2 1 0 17 Troy Ferguson...... 1 1 0 3 +1 19*Andy Hilbert....... 0 0 2 11 +1 18 Adam Hall.......... 0 0 0 3 0 22*Bill Trainor....... 0 0 0 0 0 19 Rustyn Dolyny...... 0 1 0 7 +1 23 Mike Roemensky..... 0 0 0 2 0 20 Brian Maloney...... 1 0 2 5 0 24 Dave Wyzgowski..... 0 0 0 0 0 21*John Nail.......... 0 0 0 1 -1 25 Mark Mink.......... 0 0 0 1 0 22*Andrew Bogle....... 0 0 0 0 -1 27*Dave Huntzicker.... 0 0 0 1 0 24*Andrew Hutchinson.. 0 0 4 3 -1 28 John Shouneyia..... 0 0 0 0 0 26 Joe Goodenow....... 0 0 0 1 0 Totals............. 1 2 36 32 0 27 Brad Fast.......... 1 0 0 1 +1 Totals............. 3 5 10 31 0
N O T E S
The Wolverines dropped the regular-season series to Michigan State, with the Spartans winning three of the four games.
Geoff Koch notched his first point in 10 games (1/23/01 vs. Notre Dame).
Michigan finished with 11 regular-season losses, which is the most since the 1989-90 season when the Maize and Blue had a 24-12-6 record.
Q U O T E S
Head Coach Red Berenson
On the game ... "Taking to many penalties was our downfall. Five on five we played really well. We just killed ourselves giving up the bad penalties."
On the CCHA playoffs ... "We're gonna give our kids the weekend off and start focusing on next week. The playoffs will be a fresh start for us. Right now we have no guarantees and we have to play every game like it's our last and focus game to game."
Contact: Jason Binge (734) 763-4423
