Huskies hold off Falcons for CCHA win

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Michigan Tech earned its first CCHA win of the season with a 3-2 victory at Bowling Green State Friday. Logan Ganie scored the game-winner 6:04 into the third period, and the Huskies held on for Coach Joe Shawhan's 100th career victory.

"I thought our guys played extremely hard," Shawhan said. "We had an inexperienced defensive corp tonight, but we got timely goals and our seniors stepped up. It's hard to win a game on the road and hard to win in this building."

Tech never trailed in the game, taking the lead three different times. Parker Saretsky opened scoring with his fourth of the season 14:11 into the game. Logan Ganie and Saretksy crisscrossed in the zone and Saretsky fired it far side past the goaltender's blocker. Topi Heiskanen also assisted as the team's skated 4-on-4.

The Falcons tied it up 9:11 into the second on a goal from Anton Malmstrom from Ben Wozney and Ethan Scardina.

Ryland Mosley put the Black and Gold back in front with a power play goal at 16:16 of the second. He corralled a pass from Logan Pietila and buried his fourth of the season with Nick Nardella adding the secondary assist.

BGSU (2-7, 1-4 CCHA) quickly tied it up 1:41 later when Ethan Scardina scored an unassisted goal.

Tech once again took the lead, this time for good. Logan Ganie found some space in front of the net and redirected a shot by Jake Crespi on net. The rebound popped right out, and Ganie buried it for the go-ahead tally with 13:56 remaining. Parker Saretsky also assisted on the play.

The Falcons got a power play with 90 seconds left and pulled the goaltender for the 6-on-4 advantage. Blake Pietila only had to make one save down the stretch with defenseman Ryan O'Connell blocking three shots.

Blake Pietila picked up his 40th career win, making 41 saves for the Huskies—two short of a career-high. He made three saves on breakaways and added a stop on a penalty shot in the second period.

The Huskies were 1-for-3 on the power play and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.

Tech improved to 5-2-1 overall and 1-1-1 in the CCHA, and the teams will wrap up the CCHA series at 7:07 p.m. Saturday at the Slater Family Ice Arena.