The BG Men’s Ice Hockey team will travel to Columbus, Ohio to play the Ohio State University Buckeyes Tuesday night at 7:05 p.m.
The last time these two teams met, BG scored 4 unanswered goals and defeated the Buckeyes 4-3 on October 15 at the Ice Arena. The Falcons had three different players score goals and sophomore goaltender Tommy Burke made 25 saves in the win.
Since 1969, the Falcons and Buckeyes have played each other a total of 157 times. BG leads the all-time series 90-59-8.
The Ohio State Buckeyes are currently 2-3-0 and are coming off a sweep against the Robert Morris University Colonials. The Buckeyes’ only losses this season so far have been a sweep at the hand of the Miami University RedHawks and to BG.
In the Buckeyes’ last win, they scored all four of their goals in the second period. Two of those goals came on the power play. Freshman goaltender Matt Tomkins made 21 saves to earn his second collegiate victory. In the win, skaters Sam Jardine and Anthony Greco each had two assists. Their four goals were scored by Nick Schilkey, Drew Brevig, Tyler Lundey and Justin DaSilva. Ohio State also converted two of six power play chances.
Ohio State is led by their head coach Steve Rohlik, who was just named last April after serving as the associate head coach for the program. Overall, he has 16 years of experience as a Division I coach.
BG is currently 2-1-2 and the last time the Falcons played was on October 19 when they won against the Colgate Raiders 7-0. This was the first time that BG won by seven goals in the regular season since December 30, 2005 when they defeated the University of Connecticut 9-2.
Senior forward Bryce Williamson is tied second overall in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association for scoring. Over the first five games he has seven points. Williamson has scored at least one goal in three consecutive games for the Falcons.
Junior forward Dan DeSalvo leads the WCHA in assists with five and he averages one assist per game. DeSalvo had four assists in the Falcons’ last game , giving him a career high for assists in a game.
The Falcons have the number one power play in all of the WCHA with a 23.1 percent success rate. Bryce Williamson leads the team in shots, goals, and assists.
BG’s next game will be on the road at Ohio State University on October 29. They will return to the BGSU Ice Arena to take the University of Alaska Anchorage Seawolves in their first WCHA home series on November 1 and 2 at 7:07 p.m.
