Box Score COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. –
Josh Archibald scored the tying goal in the third period and then delivered the shootout winner as the Omaha hockey team skated to a 3-3 tie with Colorado College on Saturday night at World Arena.
The 2-1 shootout win, the first shootout game for the Mavericks this season, gave the Mavericks two standings points while Colorado College earned one.
The Mavericks are now 8-7-1 overall and 5-2-1-1 in the National Collegiate Hockey Conference, good for second place. The Tigers are 2-10-3 overall and 2-5-3-0 in the NCHC, putting them in fifth place.
Trailing 2-1 entering the third period,
Johnnie Searfoss tied the game when he collected a faceoff win by
Tanner Lane and fired a shot on goal that slipped by CC goalie Josh Thorimbert at 7:55.
A little more than three minutes later, Alex Roos gave Colorado College a 3-2 lead when he knocked in a pass from Cody Bradley who had chased down a loose puck in the corner.
But the Mavericks responded just 1:26 later when
Dominic Zombo took a shot from the right wing that Archibald tipped over the shoulder of Thorimbert for his team-leading 11th goal of the year.
UNO goalie
Ryan Massa, who started the game and was replaced in the second by
Kirk Thompson, came back in for the shootout, and stopped three of four shots.
Ryan Walters scored in the first round of the shootout for the Mavericks and then after Thorimbert stopped Searfoss and
Michael Young, Archibald delivered the winner in the fourth round.
The tie went to Thompson who is now 3-2-1 this season. He made 17 saves. Thorimbert stopped 41 shots as the Mavs outshot the Tigers, 44-26.
The Tigers jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period, getting goals from Michael Morin at 9:28 and Matt Hansen at 17:54. In both cases, freshman defenseman Jacob Slavin had the only assist.
The Mavericks climbed back into the game early in the second when the Tigers lost two players to penalties. Zombo tipped in a long point shot from Walters at 3:44 to make it 2-1 after two.
Archibald and Zombo each had a goal and an assist.
The Mavericks have three weeks off, returning to action on Jan. 3-4 when they travel east to take on New Hampshire of Hockey East.
