FERRIS STATE THWARTS LATE THIRD PERIOD COLGATE RALLY
Basile scores the game-winning goal at 14:18 of the third to give Bulldogs 5-4 win

November 3, 2000

Big Rapids, Mich. – The Ferris State men’s ice hockey team thwarted a late Colgate University comeback to prevail 5-4 on Jason Basile’s first goal of the year at 14:18 of the third period.

The Bulldogs (1-4-2) scored the game-winning goal at 14:18 of the third on Basile’s first goal of the season.  Phil Lewandowski and Scott Markowsky skated down on a two-on-two situation, while Basile trailed the play and skated hard past Colgate’s Chad MacDonald and Markowsky found him in front of the net.  Basile took a shot that Lefevre got a piece of, but the puck went into the goal as Basile fell and carried Lefevre into the net on the shot.

Ferris took a 4-1 lead early in the second period on goals by Kevin Swider and Rob Collins, but Colgate (1-2-2) mounted a third-period comeback to tie the game 4-4 at 10:11.

Etienne Morin started the rally with the first of two goals in the game when he intercepted a clearing attempt by Ferris State goaltender Vince Owen and scored at the 8:24 mark of the second period.  With the Red Raiders on a power-play Owen went behind the net to clear the puck and backhanded it right to Morin and he easily put the puck in the empty-net.

Morin scored his second of the game six minutes into the third period on a snapshot from the high slot.  Bryan Long flipped the puck from his own blueline where Morin batted it down and carried the puck into the Bulldogs zone and recorded his second goal of the season.

O’Malley tied the game with a shorthanded goal at 10:11 of the third.  He stole the puck from a Ferris State defenseman, put a move on Owen and backhanded the puck in.

Swider who recorded two markers on the evening scored two of Ferris’ four power-play goals on the evening.  Swider gave the Bulldogs the early advantage at 3:13 of the first period when he pounded in the rebound off a shot by Chris Kunitz on the right side of Colgate goaltender Jason Lefevre.

FSU took a 2-0 lead with its second power-play goal of the contest on a blast from Kunitz just inside the right face-off circle on feeds from Jim Dube and Swider.  Dube registered two assists on the evening.

The Red Raiders on a 5-on-3 power-play pulled within 2-1 when Cory Murphy’s shot from the high slot was redirected by Sean Nolan in front of the net for his sixth goal of the season.  Mike O’Malley fed Murphy in the slot to pick up his fourth helper on the year.

The two teams resume action for the finale of the two-game series with face-off at 7:05 p.m. on Saturday.

 Colgate (1-2-2) vs. Ferris State (1-4-2)
 Date: Nov 03, 2000  Location: Big Rapids, Mich.     Arena: Ewigleben Ice Arena 
 Attendance:1375   Start time:7:05 pm   End time:9:39      Total time:2:34    
 Goals by Period       1  2  3  Tot
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 Colgate.............  1  1  2 -  4
 Ferris State........  2  2  1 -  5
 
   1st period - 1, FSU, Kevin Swider 4 (Jim Dube, Chris Kunitz) 03:13
(pp). 2, FSU, Chris Kunitz 3 (Jim Dube, Kevin Swider) 12:51 (pp). 3,
CU, Sean Nolan 6 (Cory Murphy, Mike O'Malley) 16:30 (pp). Penalties - 
Chad MacDonald, CU (INTERFERENCE) 01:51; Phil Lewandowski, FSU
(SLASHING) 08:34; Scooter Smith, CU (HOLDING THE STICK) 11:39; Sam
Sturgis, CU (CROSS-CHECKING) 12:43; Kevin Caudill, FSU (HOOKING)
15:09; Martin Sellgren, FSU (SLASHING) 15:37; Sean Nolan, CU
(CROSS-CHECKING) 18:25.
   2nd period - 4, FSU, Rob Collins 4 (Phil Meyer) 03:34 (delayed
penalty) (pp). 5, FSU, Kevin Swider 5 (Jim Dube, Jason Basile) 04:22
(pp). 6, CU, Etienne Morin 1 08:24 (pp). Penalties - Martin Sellgren,
FSU (OBSTRUCTION-HOOKING) 00:59; Sean Nolan, CU (TRIPPING) 02:29; Cory
Murphy, CU (SLASHING) 03:34; Simon Mangos, FSU (OBSTRUCTION-HOLDING)
07:05; Rob Lightfoot, FSU (SLASHING) 10:26; Kevin Johns, CU
(CROSS-CHECKING) 10:28; Chris Kunitz, FSU (TRIPPING) 12:55; Ben Bryce,
CU (HOOKING) 15:11; Jason Basile, FSU (ROUGHING) 15:28.
   3rd period - 7, CU, Etienne Morin 2 (Bryan Long, Kyle Doyle) 06:00. 
8, CU, Mike O'Malley 2 10:11 (sh). 9, FSU, Jason Basile 1 (Scott
Markowsky, Phil Lewandowski) 14:18. Penalties - Dan Stay, CU (HIGH
STICKING) 09:30; Matt Nicholson, CU (HOLDING) 17:50.
   Shots on goal - CU 7-13-9-29; FSU 11-7-14-32.
   Power plays - CU 2 of 8; FSU 4 of 10.
   Goalies - CU, Jason Lefevre 1-2-2 (32 shots-27 saves); FSU, Vince
Owen 1-4-2 (29-25).
 A-1375  T-2:34    
 Three stars: 1. None    2. None    3. None    
 Referee:Jon Gosger  Asst Ref:Chris Davis; Paul Tunison
 Win-Vince Owen (1-4-2).  Loss-Jason Lefevre (1-2-2).  
 Ferris State goaltender Vince Owen moves into     
 second place on FSU's all-time victories list and 
 has a current 33-44-10 career mark.