{"id":3348,"date":"2002-03-09T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2002-03-09T22:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/03\/09\/lakers-make-way-to-maac-final-four\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:42","slug":"lakers-make-way-to-maac-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/2002\/03\/09\/lakers-make-way-to-maac-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers Make Way To MAAC Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercyhurst Lakers continued their drive for a second successive MAAC championship with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Army before close to 1,000 fans Saturday night at the Mercyhurst Ice Center.<\/p>\n<p>Army scored first when senior forward Josh Marino beat Mercyhurst goaltender Peter Aubry at 14:38 of the first period.  Morino was assisted by sophomore forwards Jon Boyle and Dustin Healey.<\/p>\n<p>Mercyhurst tied the game late in the period as senior captain Louis Goulet scored his ninth of the season at 19:39. Sophomore forward Peter Rynshoven had the lone assist.  <\/p>\n<p>Rynshoven then notched what proved to be the game-winner at 10:18 of the second, getting his 12th of the year with help from freshman linemate  Rich Hansen and  sophomore wing Adam Tackaberry.<\/p>\n<p>Army senior netminder Scott Hamilton and Aubrey closed both doors thereafter. The Black Knights pulled Hamilton for an extra attacker with under a minute to play, but Aubry stood his ground.<\/p>\n<p>Mercyhurst outshot Army 30-22 in winning for the sixth time in seven tries against the Black Knights, including a three of four slate this season.  Referee Jeff Fulton was kept busy, calling 31 penalties in the game for a combined 86 minutes.  <\/p>\n<p>Mercyhurst improved its record to 23-9-3 and will head to the semifinals in Worcester, Mass. Army closed its year at 9-17-6.  The Lakers will play Connecticut Thursday in the semifinals at Holy Cross. Sacred Heart and Quinnipiac will meet in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mercyhurst Lakers continued their drive for a second successive MAAC championship with a hard-fought 2-1 win over Army before close to 1,000 fans Saturday night at the Mercyhurst Ice Center. Army scored first when senior forward Josh Marino beat Mercyhurst goaltender Peter Aubry at 14:38 of the first period. Morino was assisted by sophomore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}