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Coborn Is MIAC Player Of The Week Again

Coborn Is MIAC Player Of The Week Again

MOORHEAD, Minn. (2/18/13)—For the second time in his freshman season, Concordia forward Tucker Coborn was named the MIAC Player of the Week. Coborn won this week's award after scoring a natural hat trick in the Cobbers' 4-3 win on Saturday at St. Mary's to help CC finish in third place in the final MIAC standings.

In addition to Coborn winning the award twice this year, teammate Chris Neamonitis also captured the honor back on Jan. 14.

Coborn becomes the first Cobber player to win the award twice in one season since Kelly Andrew accomplished the feat back in 2010-11.

Coborn won his latest award after scoring three straight goals in the third period against St. Mary's to singlehandedly erase a three-goal deficit. Concordia then won the game in the final minute of the overtime period.

Coborn finished with an even plus-minus rating with two shots in Friday's 4-3 win that helped secure the Cobbers' postseason bid, but his impact in Saturday's regular-season finale was much, much larger. The third period opened with Concordia staring at a 3-0 deficit, but the momentum started to swing when Coborn scored a short-handed goal just 42 seconds into the period. He added a power play less than five-minutes later to make it a one-goal game, then tied the game and forced overtime on another power-play goal with just 5:17 remaining in regulation. Concordia prevailed with the game-winner at 4:11 of the extra period.

Coborn has eight goals and nine assists for 17 points this season. He has 12 of those points (seven goals, five assists) in conference play.

 With the sweep of Saint Mary's, Concordia finished the regular season with an overall record of 13-11-1 and a 10-6 conference mark. The Cobbers' 20 points in the MIAC standings trailed co-champs St. Thomas and Saint John's by a single point, and tied with Gustavus for third place in the conference. Concordia earned the No. 3 seed in the MIAC Playoffs through tiebreaker criteria, and will open the postseason Saturday with a semifinal game at No. 2-seeded Saint John's. The puck is set to drop at 7 p.m. at the National Hockey Center in St. Cloud, Minn.