Category: College
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Michigan Tech sweeps Michigan in Wolverines’ first visit to Houghton since 1983
By Jeremy Summitt – HOUGHTON – In its first trip to Houghton, Mich. since 1983, Michigan suffered its first non-conference, weekend sweep in nearly 30 years. No. 17 Michigan Tech dismantled the 15th-ranked Wolverines, jumping out to early leads in both Friday’s and Saturday’s lopsided results. On Friday, the Huskies continued to build off its…
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PHOTOS: Michigan State beats Ferris State in Saturday rematch
On Saturday night in East Lansing, the Michigan State Spartans rebounded to beat the Ferris State Bulldogs 4-1 and split their weekend series. Click here to see the recap from Saturday night’s game; click here to see the photo gallery from Friday night. (Photos by Andrew Knapik/MiHockey)
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Spartans rebound, pick up 4-1 win over Bulldogs
By Alyssa Girardi – EAST LANSING — Leading up to Saturday’s game, the dialogue surrounding MSU hockey’s ability to score continued to run like a broken record. The Spartans were coming off a 1-0 loss to No. 15/14 Ferris State, despite outshooting the Bulldogs 36-16. However, offensive concerns were hushed after Saturday night when…
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PHOTOS: Ferris State blanks MSU in East Lansing Friday night
Ferris State shut out Michigan State 1-0 Friday night in East Lansing. Jared VanWormer had the lone goal for the Bulldogs, who improved to 3-3 on the season. (Photos by Kaileigh Brammer/MiHockey)
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‘Players of the Week’ round-up (week ending on Oct. 26, 2014)
By @MichaelCaples – It was a big week for Michigan natives and connections playing across various college and junior leagues, so the MiHockey team decided to compile all of the accolades and put them in one post. Michigan Wolverines freshman forward (and Red Wings draft pick) Dylan Larkin (Waterford) was named the Big Ten’s…
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Hockey leads all sports in NCAA graduation rate
By @MichaelCaples – The NCAA has announced their yearly report on graduation rates for all collegiate sports, and this time around, hockey leads the way. NCAA men’s hockey earned the best single-year graduation rate of all D1 men’s sports in the latest NCAA Graduation Success Rate date. Measuring student-athletes who enrolled in 2007, 92.1 percent…
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Michigan Tech shuts out Ferris State Friday night in Big Rapids
By Nick Barnowski – BIG RAPIDS – The Michigan Tech Huskies moved to 3-0 in WCHA play after defeating No. 8 Ferris State 1-0 Friday night at Ewigleben Ice Arena. Senior Blake Pietila’s goal 19 seconds into the third period broke a scoreless tie and earned the Huskies (3-0-0, 3-0-0 WCHA) a win on the road. “I…
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Spartans’ Matt Berry, Wolverines’ Steve Racine named B1G Hockey stars of the week
By @MichaelCaples – The Big Ten announced their stars of the week today, and two players currently calling Michigan home were on the list. First star of the week went to Michigan State forward Matt Berry. The Canton native – a senior forward for MSU – recorded four goals and two assists during the Spartans’…
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Wolverines bounce back against UNH, record first win of 2014-15
By Greg Garno – ANN ARBOR — The Michigan hockey team was on the verge of being the first team in program history to begin a season 0-3 since the 1940-41 season after it dropped a 5-1 contest to New Hampshire on Friday night. But on Saturday, it avoided falling into the wrong part of…
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Spartans score five in season-opening win over UMass
By Nick Barnowski – EAST LANSING – It took the Michigan State Spartans four games to score five goals last season. This season, it took just one. Senior Matt Berry (Canton) and sophomore Mackenzie MacEachern (Troy) led the offensive attack for the Spartans, who beat Massachusetts by a score of 5-3 in Friday night’s…