GAME 12 November 15, 2011 Notre Dame 3 • Western Michigan 2 Notre Dame, Ind. – Riley Sheahan scored a pair of goals and defenseman Shayne Taker added the third as fourth-ranked Notre Dame handed 10thranked Western Michigan a 3-2 loss at the Compton Family Ice Arena … Ian Slater and Shane Berschbach scored for the Broncos … the win extended the Irish unbeaten streak to eight games (6-0-2) and gives them a 4-0-0 mark at the new Compton Arena … the win also moved Notre Dame into sole possession of first in the CCHA with an 8-2-2 overall record and a 6-1-2-0 mark in league play … after a scoreless first period where the teams combined for just nine shots on goal, the game opened up in the second as the Irish would take a 3-1 lead … Western Michigan scored first when Slater converted a feed from Dane Walters for his third goal of the year at the 9:30 mark … the 1-0 Bronco lead lasted just nine seconds as Taker picked up a loose puck and raced down the left side before cutting in front to lift a shot over Frank Slubowski to tie the game at 1-1 … the goal was Taker’s first in 40 game as he last scored on Oct. 10, 2010 to start the 2010-11 season … just 40 seconds later at 10:39, Sheahan picked up his first of the night and third of the year when he hammered a shot through a screen from the high slot past Slubowski for a powerplay goal and a 2-1 lead … Sheahan then recorded the first multiple-goal game of his career at 15:08 of the second when he flipped a Jeff Costello rebound past Slubowski for his fourth goal of the year and a 3-1 Notre Dame advantage … the Irish protected the two-goal lead until 12:23 of the final period when Berschbach tucked a shot from the bottom of the left circle for his fourth of the year to make the score, 3-2 … Johnson would finish the game with 23 saves, extending his personal unbeaten streak to seven games (5-0-2) … Slubowski made 18 saves for the Broncos … the Irish have now scored at least one power-play goal in 10 of their first 11 games. #10/#10 Western Michigan #4/#4 Notre Dame
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1st: No Scoring. 2nd: WMU: Ian Slater 3 (Dan Walters), 9:30; ND: Shayne Taker 1 (Nick Larson), 9:59; ND: Riley Sheahan 3 (Robbie Russo, T.J. Tynan), PPG, 10:39; ND: Sheahan 4 (Jeff Costello, Sean Lorenz), 15:08. 3rd: WMU: Shane Berschback 4 (Kyle O’Kane, Chase Balisy), 13:23. .
Saves: WMU: Frank Slubowski (59:00) ND: Mike Johnson (59:54)
Power Play: WMU: 0-2; ND: 1-2. Penalties: WMU: 2 for 4 min.; ND: 2 for 4 min. Attendance: 4,216
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GAME 13 November 18, 2011 Notre Dame 3 • Boston College 2 (ot) Notre Dame, Ind. – Bryan Rust ripped a shot off Boston College goaltender Parker Milner’s glove with 1.1 seconds left and it trickled over the goal line to give Notre Dame a 3-2 overtime win over Boston College at a sold out Compton Family Ice Arena … for close to 65 minutes, the two nationally ranked teams - third-ranked Boston College and fourth-ranked Notre Dame - traded shot for shot and goal for goal before Rust would take hero honors as time was running out … T.J. Tynan and Shayne Taker scored for the Irish in regulation while Chris Kreider scored on a first-period penalty shot and Johnny Gaudreau got the equalizer with 2:10 left in the third to send the game to overtime … the dramatic win ran Notre Dame’s current unbeaten streak to nine games (7-0-2) since Oct. 21 and improves the Irish to 9-2-2 on the year … the Eagles fall to 9-4-0 on the season … the overtime game was the fourth for Notre Dame in the last six games and the Irish are 2-0-2 on the year … since March 21, 2008, Notre Dame is unbeaten in its last 25 overtime games, going 7-0-18 in extra action … on the night that the Compton Family Ice Arena was officially dedicated and with many of the donors and benefactors for the magnificent oncampus arena watching, the Irish and the Eagles put on an exciting show …
Sophomore Bryan Rust was the hero as he scored with 1.1 seconds left in overtime to give the Irish a 3-2 win over Boston College in the “Dedication Game” at the Compton Family Ice Arena on Nov. 18.
BC scored first when Kreider was awarded a penalty shot with 13 seconds left in the first after Stephen Johns covered a puck in the crease … the junior center beat Irish goaltender Mike Johnson to his stick side for a 1-0 Eagle lead … Notre Dame scored twice in the second period to take a 2-1 lead … Tynan made it 1-1 when he beat Milner from the bottom of the left circle for his fourth goal of the year … Taker followed with his second goal in as many games as he took a centering pass from Riley Sheahan and flipped a backhander past Milner at 11:37 to put the Irish ahead 2-1 … from there, Notre Dame nursed the lead only to see the Eagles get the game-tying goal with 2:10 left on the clock … Johnson stopped a shot in the slot by Brian Dumoulin but Gaudreau beat the Irish defense to the rebound and tapped the puck past the Notre Dame goaltender to tie the game at 2-2 … the score remained tied until the dying moments of overtime when Rust took a pass from Sean Lorenz in the neutral zone, carried down the left side before cutting to the middle where he ripped a shot from the high slot … the puck went off Milner’s glove, fell into the crease and across the goal line for the game winner that sent the Compton Family Ice Arena into a frenzy … on the night, Notre Dame out shot Boston College by a 35-34 margin … Johnson finished with 32 saves while Milner also had 32 stops in the game … the win was the second straight for the Irish against the Eagles and the sixth in the last eight meetings. #3/#3 Boston College #4/#4 Notre Dame
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1st: BC: Chris Kreider 9 (penalty shot), 19:47. 2nd: ND: T.J. Tynan 4 (Austin Wuthrich, Stephen Johns), 6:54; ND: Shayne Taker 2 (Riley Sheahan, Wuthrich), 11:37. 3rd: BC: Johnny Gaudreau 6 (Brian Dumoulin), 17:50. Overtime: ND: Bryan Rust 2 (Sean Lorenz, Sam Calabrese), 4:58. orey Krug 3 (Anthony Hayes, Derek Grant), PPG, 15:35; ND: T.J. Tynan 7 (Joe Lavin), SHG, ENG, 19:35. Saves: BC: Parker Milner (64:58) ND: Mike Johnson (64:58)
Power Play: BC: 0-3; ND: 0-3 Penalties: BC: 5 for 10 min.; ND: 6 for 12 min. Attendance: 5,022 (sellout)
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