New Month, New Way To Win

ST. PAUL, Minn. (2/01/14)—A new month brought a new recipe for success for Concordia. Instead of the six overtime games the Cobbers played in January, Concordia got at least one goal in each period and beat Hamline 4-0. The victory completes the series sweep for the Cobbers and keeps them unbeaten in the past four games.

In addition to the four-goal outburst, Concordia received solid goaltending play from senior Kelly Andrew who stopped all 23 shots he faced to earn his first shutout of the season.

The two wins on the weekend push the Cobbers' overall record to 11-6-4 on the season. It is the fourth straight season the Concordia has posted a double-digit season win total. CC is now 5-4-3 in conference play and remains in fourth place in the league standings.

Concordia had four different players score even-strength tallies in the four-goal win on Saturday. The game-winning goal came in the sixth minute of play when league-leading scorer Andrew Deters notched his eighth goal of the year at 5:05. Deters has now put up a point in four straight games and seven of the last eight. He now has 25 points in the team's first 21 games of the year. Jordie Bancroft and Garrett Hendrickson picked up assists on the play.     

The Cobbers pushed the lead to 2-0 in the final three minutes of play in the first frame. Defenseman Jordan Krebsbach collected his second goal of the season with helpers from Jordan Christianson and Christian Axelsson.

Concordia led 2-0 after the first 20 minutes of play despite only putting up four shots on goal and being outshot 8-4.

The Cobbers would tilt the ice in their favor in the second and third periods but only score two more goals in 23 shots in the final 40 minutes of play.

Christianson earned his second point of the afternoon when he notched his ninth goal of the season at 8:39 of the middle period. David Velich was credited with the first of his two straight assists. Jeremy Johnson was also awarded an assist.

Senior Chris Beede collected his first goal of the season to finish off the scoring at the 6-minute mark of the third period. Velich and Joe Becker set up the fourth goal of the game.

The only thing to decide in the last 14 minutes of play was whether Andrew would be able to post the shutout. He wound up turning aside five shots in the final seven minutes to preserve the team's second shutout of the season. Andrew also lowered his goals against average to 1.43 for the year and upped his season record to 3-0-1.

Neither team could connect on the power play. CC went 0-for-4 while Hamline was 0-for-3 in man-advantage situations.