Regular Season Results Against Rowan University

For the last game of the semester, it was Slippery Rock against Rowan.

Slippery Rock jumped on the board first to take a 1-0 lead. Slippery Rock was unable to score again in the first, but were able to keep Rowan off the score board.

Rowan struck first in the second period to tie things up at 1-1, but Slippery Rock answered back by scoring two more to take a 3-1 lead at the end of the second period.

Rowan was able to stop Slippery Rock from scoring any more and were able to score two unanswered goals to tie the game up at 3-3 at the end of regulation and to send things into overtime.

Both teams exchanged scoring opportunities in overtime but both were unsuccessful at ending the game, sending the game into a shootout to decide the outcome.

It wasn't until five shooters into the shoot out that Rowan was able to score without Slippery Rock being unable to answer back and were able to take home two points for the win, with Slippery Rock only taking one point for an overtime loss.

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Regular Season Results Against West Chester University

Slippery Rock added started a winning streak by winning their second game during the final weekend of their regular season by defeating West Chester with a score of 9-5.

The game started out with back and fourth scoring with Slippery Rock scoring the first goal, but West Chester answered back both times Slippery Rock scored bringing the end of the first period to a 2-2 score.

Slippery Rock took the game into their hands by scoring five goals in the second period compared to the two goals West Chester scored to have a 7-4 score at the end of the second period.

Slippery Rock added two to their already commanding lead with two more goals and held off West Chester who only scored one goal in the third to end the game with a score of 9-5.

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Regular Season Results Against Hofstra University

For the first game of the last weekend of play in the first semester of the school year, it was The Pride of Slippery Rock against The Pride of Hofstra.

Both teams came out in the first period looking to take control of the game, but it was Slippery Rock who were able to get in the score board first going up 2-0 by the end of the first period.

Hofstra upped their level of play in the second period, but they were unable to put one behind Slippery Rock's goalie. But Slippery Rock were able to add another one to their lead to make it 3-0 at the end of the second period.

Hofstra was unable to come back in the third period. Although finally scoring their first, and only, goal of the game; Slippery Rock capitalized on three of their scoring opportunities in the third to bring the game to a 6-1 final score.

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The Third Weekend Of The Regular Season

For the third weekend of the regular season, The Pride of Slippery Rock will be playing the Pride of Hofstra, the Profs of Rowan and the Golden Rams of West Chester.

Although The Pride have not lost a game yet to any of these clubs, each of these games are crucial in the standings seeing as we are coming up on the half way point of the semester.

Slippery Rock looks to go undefeated on the weekend to improve their record.

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Regular Season Results Against Temple University

For the third game in a row of the season, and the second time of that weekend, Slippery Rock faced Temple.

This was the closest game between the two clubs.

Temple came out strong to start the game by scoring the first goal, trying to bounce back from the loss Slippery Rock handed them earlier that day. But Slippery Rock evened things up for a socre of 1-1 at the end of the first period.

As the teams exchanged scoring opportunities at both ends of the rink, Temple broke the tie bringing the score 2-1 in favor of the Owls. But Slippery Rock was able to tie the game back up for a score of 2-2 at the end of two periods of play.

The scoring pattern continued in the third where Temple scored trying to pull away on the score board but Slippery Rock was able to tie the game yet again at 3-3 being the final score at the end of regulation sending the game into overtime.

As both teams went at it in having their chances to end the game in the short 5:00 overtime period, neither team was able to put an end to the game.

To determine a winner, the game went into a shootout. Normally being a best of 3, Slippery Rock and Temple were tied yet again in the score of the shootout. So from there on it was sudden death rounds, first team to score without the other team to score would be the winners.

It wasn't until the 7th round of the shootout where Temple was finally able to end the game and walk away with the win.

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Regular Season Results Against Temple University

For the fifth game of the season, Slippery Rock were up against Temple for the second time in a row.

Slippery Jumped on Temple quick by scoring back to back goals to go up 2-0.

Temple then put one up on the board to bring the game 2-1 still in favor of Slippery Rock.

But then Slippery Rock answered back by scoring two more goals before the to end the first period with a score of 4-1, a great start for Slippery Rock.

Scoring slowed down in the second, with only one more goal scored for each team to bring the score 5-2 with Slippery Rock still leading Temple.

Then in the third period, it was back and forth action but the goalies for both clubs came up big with not letting in any goals, until the end of the third period. Slippery Rock scored the last goal of the game to bring the score 6-2, even though it wasn't noted by the score keepers.

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The Second Weekend Of The Regular Season

This past weekend, Slippery Rock traveled to New Cumberland for a short two game weekend. The Rock played Temple University for both games, which put that at three straight games against The Owls on the schedule.

After an upsetting loss to end the first weekend of the regular season, The Pride looked to get back at the Owls and improve in their regular season record.