Club Hockey

Throughout the past few weeks, Speakeasy sat down with many of Ohio’s club hockey team members. The Bobcats answered some questions so the fans can get to know the players.

The Ohio Bobcats were aiming for some redemption as they took on Michigan-Dearborn this weekend. They were not so lucky in their first match up this year, however, as Ohio lost 3-4 Friday night at Bird Arena.

There is no easy way to put it, but Lindenwood University hockey just flat out has Ohio’s number.

As the seventh seed in this year’s American Collegiate Hockey Association Tournament in Rochester, N.Y., Ohio looks to kill two birds with one stone by avenging two major disappointments against the No. 10 seed Iowa State this weekend.

This weekend the Bobcats embark to the “Big Pond” to accomplish a feat they have not done since the 2004-2005 season -- bring a conference championship back to Athens.

Not only did the Ohio hockey team pick up their sixth shutout of the season on Friday night with a 5-0 victory, they finished the weekend off with their second consecutive sweep and sixth of the year.

The Bobcats busted out the brooms this past weekend inside Bird Arena with a sweep of the No. 18 Washington and Jefferson Presidents, snapping a three-game loosing streak.

Ohio hockey makes the trek west this weekend to Champaign, Ill. to battle the undefeated Illinois Illini, where they will try to play spoiler and ruin the Illini's hopes of a perfect season.

Ohio split their ninth series of the season this past weekend against conference foe Western Michigan, after giving themselves a chance for the sweep by winning Friday night.

A playoff-like atmosphere created an ecstatic environment inside Bird Arena this past weekend as No. 8 Ohio University hosted its most bitter rival, No. 2 Penn State University.

The Bobcats' trip to the No. 2 Penn State University Icers ended in familiar fashion.

Ohio hockey split its second two-game road series this weekend, this time against rival conference foe No. 13 Kent State University.

After splitting the series with the defending national champion Oakland University this past weekend, the Ohio University hockey team took its season record to a disappointing 5-3, the Bobcats’ worst start in four years.

After taking the 2006 American Collegiate Hockey League Division II title for the second time in three years, the Oakland University Grizzlies felt that it might be time to take their dominance elsewhere, to Division I.

 

Ohio hockey is back in action for its 2007 season. In their first series in the friendly Bird Arena the Bobcats took care of a conference foe they couldn't take care of last season when it mattered most.

The 2006-2007 Bobcat hockey team had gone 27-8 before entering the Central States Collegiate Hockey League tournament. The team took surprising defeats in its last four postseason games, but it had something to give that would outlast the bitterness of their unlikely defeat: leadership.

If nothing else, it was well worth the 10-hour drive for Lindenwood to travel from St. Louis to Athens to defeat Ohio this Sunday at 2 for the consolation game of the Central States Collegiate Hockey League tournament.

The weather outside Bird Arena may have been freezing this weekend, but the ice inside was steaming hot. The Ohio Bobcats, No. 3 in the American Collegiate Hockey Association, clashed with their heated rivals and No. 2, the Penn State Icers.

The No. 5 seeded Kent State Golden Flashes were not so flashy as the No. 4 seeded Iowa State Cyclones swirled around them in an 8-2 win in the first game of the CSCHL Tournament this Friday at Bird Arena.

After further investigation of Ohio’s possible eight-game forfeiture due to ineligible player, Jeff Jepson, details are still underwater.

In this day and age, all it takes is an unexpected e-mail to bring a possible championship season to a stifling halt. That’s just what happened to coach Dan Morris of the Ohio Bobcats last Tuesday, Jan. 30.

With the CSCHL tournament coming to Athens, Speakeasy Sports will be providing an extensive tournament preview on all participating teams the entire week leading up to the tournament. Be sure to make SpeakeasyMag.com the place to go for all of your Ohio hockey news.

Bobcat hockey is a club sport. It survives solely on its own revenue, not in any way supported by Ohio University itself. The players pay full tuition, and they get no special privileges for representing their school on the ice.

The Bobcats are taking on Lindenwood tonight and tomorrow in Bird Arena. Speakeasy Sports' own Bridget Peterlin has been covering the hockey team all season and will be providing in-game statistics and analysis throughout tonight's game.

Home court -- rink? -- advantage wouldn’t be so advantageous if the home team weren’t expected to win more games on their turf rather than on the road, right?

 “It’s been real quiet,” Ohio hockey coach Joe Dumais said, referring to the general state of Bird Arena this past week.

Last weekend, the Ohio hockey team expected two extremely close games against the Penn State Icers, but what they did not expect was to lose -- both of them.

The Bobcats are as ready and pumped as they’ll ever be. The icy rivalry continues as Ohio University and The Pennsylvania State University face-off this weekend at the Penn State Ice Pavilion. Start time Friday night is at 9 p.m.

After three straight weekends of having the privilege to play in front of home fans, the No. 4 ranked Ohio University Bobcats will travel to Youngstown, Ohio, to compete in the 4th Annual Division 1 American Collegiate Hockey Association Showcase.

“O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.” As with any sport in the United States, the end of the singing of the National Anthem marks the beginning of the game.

Taking the physicality out of hockey is like taking the party out of Athens. The hitting, the holding, the occasional stick-tripping, all of those things are part of the game. That’s what people look for or think of when they think hockey.