Scoring Woes Continue
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (2/10/12)—Concordia's scoring woes continued on Friday against Hamline as the Cobbers pumped 34 shots on the Piper net but came up empty and lost 1-0. CC remains winless in their last five games and has only scored six goals during that stretch.
The loss also damages Concordia's playoff hopes. The Cobbers are now 4-6-3 in league play and tied for sixth place in the MIAC standings. The top five teams make the conference playoffs and CC is now three points behind fifth place. Concordia also falls to 8-10-4 overall after starting the season 7-3-3 before the Christmas break. Hamline ups their league mark to 7-7-1 and is now in third place in the standings. The Pipers are 10-12-2 overall.
Concordia's best chance to score came in the final six minutes of the third period when CC had a 5-on-3 power play for 90 seconds. The Cobbers pumped seven shots on the Hamline goal but couldn't find the net and wound up losing by the single goal.
Hamline tallied the only goal of the game at the 4:37 mark of the second period when Brian Arrigoni scored his 14th goal of the season.
The Cobbers went 0-for-2 on the power play and have now gone 0-for-13 on man-advantage situations in the last four games. CC is also 1-for-31 on the power play in the nine games since the Christmas break.
Concordia outshot the Pipers 13-9 in the third period but were outshot by Hamline 35-34 for the game. CC goalie Chris Neamonitis stopped 34 of the 35 shots he faced and lowered his goals against average to 2.06 on the year. Hamline netminder Beau Christian also made 34 saves to pick up his 10th win of the year.
The two teams will finish off their two-game series on Saturday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m.