FINAL: Women and Men's NCAA D-III Hockey Championships

WOMEN (from Superior, Wisconsin) 
Elmira          1
Middlebury  0
FINAL Box Score Preview 

1st Period: Middlebury has three power plays but can't capitalize. First period ends as it began, 0-0. Shots are even too, 6-6.

2nd Period: Elmira goes on their first power play of the game 3:18. The Soaring Eagles get a few good shots but can't put it in. Elmira gets another Power play chance when Middlebury's Maggie Woodward gets called for hooking 9:41 into the period.  Not long after the second penalty of the period is killed, Vermont native Taylor Steadman puts the Soaring Eagles up 1-0 on an assist by yesterday's OT hero Sam Curk. With three and a half remaining Curk gets called for checking (can't hit like the boys in women's hockey) but Middlebury falls to 0-4 on the PP for the game. Much higher paced period, with shots in favor of Elmira 14-11 for the period and 20-17 for the game.

3rd Period: With 7:30 remaining Middlebury's leader in points Hannah Bielawski has a breakaway but is stoned by Elmira's Lauren Sullivan. The Panthers call timeout with 2:34 remaining. Middlebury finally pulls Annabelle Jones with 1:20 remaining, but has to put her back in just 14 seconds later for a faceoff. The Panthers finally pull her for good with thirty seconds to go but they can't muster a goal. Final shots in favor of Middlebury 30-26. It is a nation leading 11th shutout of the season for Sullivan.

Elmira avenges the 2005 finals loss to Middlebury and wins their first NCAA D-III Women's Ice Hockey Championship in 10 years.



MEN (from Lake Placid, NY)
Oswego                            3
Wisconsin Eau-Claire       5
FINAL Box Score 

1st Period: After Oswego gets its first shot 8 minutes in, the Lakers go on the first PP of the game 8:44 in on an Isaiah Bennis elbowing call. The Blugolds All-American goalie Brandon Stephenson robs Zach Josepher and Tyler Leimbrock on the power play. As the power play expires at 10:44, Bobby Gertsakis bangs home a rebound off a Look Moodie shot to put the Lakers up 1-0. 31 seconds later Chris Muise beats Stephenson and Oswego takes a 2-0 lead.  Despite the score, W-EC controls most of the first 12 minutes.

Chris Muise erases the goodwill from his goal a few minutes later with a boarding call to put the Blugolds on their first power play. Just seven seconds into the man advantage W-EC's Jordan Singer gets his team on the board, 2-1. Leimbrock gets tripped by Alex Olson to put the Lakers back on the power play with 3:11 remaining, but the Blugolds kill it. W-EC ties it on an Andrew Wilcox goal with just 53 seconds remaining. 1st period ends with the score knotted at two, shots in favor of the Blugolds 13-11.

2nd Period: 6:29 into the period Daniel Olszewksi gives W-EC their first lead of the game on a goal off a rebound. Lakers have three power plays in the period, including a 5-3 for 41 seconds, but they can't capitalize. Shots in favor of Oswego 7-4 in the period, 18-17 for the game. Oswego begins the third on the PP.

3rd Period: Blugolds kill off the penalty. 7:20 into the period W-EC gets an insurance goal from Devin Mantha, son of  former NHL player Moe Mantha. Gerstakis gets his second of the night when his shot from the right point carroms off a defender's skate and into the net exactly halfway through the period. 4-3.  Kurt Weston puts in an empty netter with 58 seconds remaining to seal it. Shots in favor of Oswego 30-25 for the game.

1st NCAA men's hockey title for W-EC in only their second NCAA Tournament appearance (1st was last year). Though they aren't near Buffalo,  it is appropriate that Oswego is from upstate New York, as they lose back to back national championships a la the 90s Buffalo Bills.