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GAME #14
Mayville State University (6-7-1)
at
Concordia College (1-12-0)
October 20, 2004

Jake Christiansen Complex
Moorhead, MN

GAMEDAY BASICS

GAME TIME: 3:00 PM
SERIES: Concordia leads 1-0-0
SERIES STARTED: 2004
LAST MEETING:
Mayville State 3 at Concordia 4 OT
LAST YEAR’S RECAP: The Cobbers overcame a one-goal halftime deficit and posted a 4-3 overtime victory over the Comets. The win snapped a 14-game winless streak for Concordia. Leading the way for the Cobber offensive attack was sophomore Brandon Root. Root scored two goals. Constant Maninga , Root's front-running mate, scored the other two goals for the Cobbers - including the game winner at the 95-minute mark. The two forwards combined for 15 of the team's 20 shots in the game. Mayville (6-8-0) struck first in the game, scoring the opening goal at 23:41. That would prove to be the only goal in the half, as the Comets took a 1-0 lead into the break. That's when the offense took over. In the second half, the two teams combined for five goals and 19 shots. Root tied the game at 53:45 on a penalty kick and then Maninga gave Concordia the lead just 2:33 later when he scored the first of his two goals. Mayville countered with a pair of their own three-minute goals. Joshua Olsson scored at 68:31, and then Jacob Miller scored his second goal of the game at 71:12 to give the Comets a 3-2 lead. The lead was short-lived, as Root struck for his second goal of the period 48 seconds later. The teams traded chances in the dying moments of regulation before Maninga struck the game-winner five minutes into the first extra period. For the game, the Cobbers outshot the Comets 20-16. Cobber keeper Nik Pickett was credited with five saves in the game, while Mayville goalie Brady Horvath turned aside nine shots.

GAMEDAY KICKOFF  

(What you need to know about today’s CC-Mayville State match-up)

-- Concordia enters today’s game on an 11-game losing streak. The Cobbers have not won since the second game of the season when they blanked St. Scholastica 3-0.
-- The Cobbers spent last weekend in Colorado Springs, Colo. Concordia lost to Virginia Wesleyan 6-1 on Friday and then turned around and lost 10-0 to the host Colorado College Tigers on Saturday. Virginia Wesleyan is ranked fourth in the south region in latest NSCAA regional rankings.
-- Matt Klein was the lone Concordia goal scorer in Colorado. Klein notched his second goal of the season at the 56:16 mark against Virginia Wesleyan.
-- The Cobbers are led by senior forward Sylvester Ndhlovu. Ndhlovu has five goals and two assists for 12 points in the season. That point total is more than his three previous seasons combined.
-- Concordia will finish the 2005 campaign with games against Carleton and St. John’s. The Cobbers will host the Knights on Saturday, Oct. 22 at 1:00pm and then play at St. John’s on Saturday, Oct. 29 at 3:00pm.
-- The Concordia goalie tandem of Brett Oestreich and Dustin Pattengale is fourth and fifth in the MIAC in saves per game in overall games. Oestreich is fourth, averaging 5.38 saves per game, and Pattengale is tied for fifth with a 5.00 saves per game average.
-- The only common opponent that the Cobbers and Comets share in 2005 is St. Scholastica. Concordia beat the Saints 3-0, while the Comets posted a
3-1 win.
-- Mayville State enters today’s game on a one-game winning streak, having downed Presentation College 3-2 on Sunday, Oct. 16
-- The Comets established a new team record for wins when they won their fifth game of the year by beating Finlandia (MI) 9-0 on Oct. 8. They have since added one more to the total. The Comets, in their second full season as a varsity program, had four wins in 14 games last season.
-- Mayville sophomore forward Miki Jovanovic has scored goals in nine of the 12 games he has played in this year and added an assist in a tenth game.