The No. 14 Omaha Mavericks jumped out to an early lead tonight and never looked back. The Mavericks downed the No. 6 St. Cloud State Huskies 6-2 in tonight's regular season home finale.
Junior forward
Brock Bremer got things started for Omaha tonight when he buried his second goal of the season, right off a
Nolan Sullivan faceoff win. Three minutes later, Freshman forward
Jacob Slipec cleaned up a loose puck in front of the St. Cloud State Cage to extend the Mavericks lead to 2-0. Freshmen Jo Lemay and
Jacob Guevin registered the assists. The Mavericks would enter the first intermission up 2-1, after a Grant Cruikshank power play goal for SCSU.
Omaha picked up right where they left off in the in the 1
st period. Freshman blueliner
Jacob Guevin blasted a one-timer bar down on the power play at 4:23 of the middle frame to extend the Mavericks lead to 3-1.
Davis Pennington and Brocker Bremer had the helpers on the power play goal. 2:06 later,
Jake Pivonka finished a loose puck in the crease to put Omaha up 4-1.
Jack Randl and
Jonny Tychonick assisted on the fourth Maverick lamp lighter. With 1:18 left in the 2
nd period, Cam Berg flew into the attacking zone and sniped his ninth goal of the season extending Omaha's lead to 5-1.
Guevin, Berg and Bremer each registered multi-point games tonight. It's the fourth multi-point game of Guevin's season, sixth of Berg's and the first for Bremer. Freshman netminder
Simon Latkoczy won his 10
th game of the season tonight. He stopped 28 of the 30 shots he faced en route to this evening's victory. On the opposite, The Mavericks put up another 40-shot performance, firing 41 shots on net tonight.
Omaha will wrap up the regular season next weekend in Grand Forks when they take on the Fighting Hawks.