2008 Woodie Awards
Ice hockey eliminated from playoffs
By Sean Segers
Issue date: 3/4/05 Section: Sports
The Rock ice hockey team traveled to Rochester, N.Y., last Friday to compete in the ECHL Division I playoffs at Genesee Valley Park Ice Rink just two years after they switched from Division II play.
The first round pitted the Pride against the University of Buffalo. Buffalo proved to be too tough for Slippery Rock, however, as the Bulls fought into overtime to beat and eliminate the Rock from the playoffs by a score of 5-4.
A first round matchup against Buffalo promised to be an outstanding contest as the teams split their two regular season meetings with a combined scoring difference of one goal. In their only previous game this year in Rochester, the Rock put on a scoring clinic by outscoring University of Rochester 10-3. This game proved to be a much closer call.
The two teams lived up to the expectations and hype of the contest and evenly battled it out for all three regulation periods.
Each time one team scored, the other had an answer for them. Back and forth they went, and at the end of the third period the score was tied at 4-4. The Rock lasted ten minutes into overtime before giving up the game-winning goal. Buffalo slipped one past senior goaltender Jason Kortz for the win, and the Rock's bus ticket home.
"Goaltending was the key in this one," Coach Tom Ward said, "I went with Kortz because he has the experience."
The first round pitted the Pride against the University of Buffalo. Buffalo proved to be too tough for Slippery Rock, however, as the Bulls fought into overtime to beat and eliminate the Rock from the playoffs by a score of 5-4.
A first round matchup against Buffalo promised to be an outstanding contest as the teams split their two regular season meetings with a combined scoring difference of one goal. In their only previous game this year in Rochester, the Rock put on a scoring clinic by outscoring University of Rochester 10-3. This game proved to be a much closer call.
The two teams lived up to the expectations and hype of the contest and evenly battled it out for all three regulation periods.
Each time one team scored, the other had an answer for them. Back and forth they went, and at the end of the third period the score was tied at 4-4. The Rock lasted ten minutes into overtime before giving up the game-winning goal. Buffalo slipped one past senior goaltender Jason Kortz for the win, and the Rock's bus ticket home.
"Goaltending was the key in this one," Coach Tom Ward said, "I went with Kortz because he has the experience."
