Despite taking an early two-goal lead, Lake Superior State fell to Ferris State 5-2 at Taffy Abel Arena on Friday night.<\/p>\n
The Lakers, in desperate need of a win heading into Friday’s game, lost their ninth straight game.<\/p>\n
Trevor Weisgerber started the scoring for the Lakers at the 3:44 mark of the first period with an unassisted goal from right outside the Bulldogs’ net. Weisgerber’s goal was his second of the season.<\/p>\n
“Weisgerber’s goal gave us some positive momentum,” Lake Superior State coach Scott Borek said. “It made us do a better job around the net. It actually helped us for the whole 60 minutes to do a better job around the net. We got a lot of second shots tonight, but we did not bury very many more.”<\/p>\n
Freshman Kyle Anderson added to the Lakers’ lead with a goal at the 3:10 mark of the second. Chris Peterson and Justin Micek added assists on Anderson’s goal, his third goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Just three minutes later, Ferris State took control with a power-play goal from Rob Lightfoot.<\/p>\n
Less than a minute later, Kevin Swider scored his 13th goal of the season to tie the game for the Bulldogs. Jim Dube and Chris Kunitz assisted on Swider’s power-play goal.<\/p>\n
“Giving up that second goal, that was a back-breaker,” Borek said. “I thought our guys battled after that, but nothing good happened in the hockey game after that second goal.” <\/p>\n
The Bulldogs carried the momentum into the third period and took the lead just under four minutes in.<\/p>\n
Christian Schroeder scored a power-play goal from the blue line to give Ferris State the 3-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Chris Kunitz increased the lead to two with an unassisted goal at the 6:48 mark.<\/p>\n
The Lakers pulled goaltender Jayme Platt with 1:14 remaining in the game, but Swider scored an empty-net goal with five seconds remaining to give Ferris the 5-2 win.<\/p>\n
The Lakers gave up three shorthanded goals and went 0-for-6 on the power play.<\/p>\n
“Our confidence on the penalty killing right now is quite low, and [the Bulldogs’] confidence on the power play is quite high,” Borek said. “We do not want to get into a game where we are trading opportunities. 5-on-5 it was a very even hockey game, but we can’t afford to get into a game of special teams.” <\/p>\n
Platt stopped 26 shots for the Lakers, while Phil Osaer recorded 25 saves for the Bulldogs.<\/p>\n
Ferris State improved to 12-13-4 overall and 8-10-3 in the CCHA. Lake State dropped to 10-20-0 overall and 6-17-0 in the CCHA.<\/p>\n
The two teams will meet again Saturday to finish off the two-game series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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