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Bemidji State University

Bemidji State Beavers Athletics
Brent Cizek
4
Winner Bemidji St. BSU 9-12-0, 8-5-0
1
Ferris St. FSU 5-14-1, 3-9-0
Winner
Bemidji St. BSU
9-12-0, 8-5-0
4
Final
1
Ferris St. FSU
5-14-1, 3-9-0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Bemidji St. BSU 2 1 1 4
Ferris St. FSU 0 1 0 1

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey |

Trio of first career goals leads Beavers to series opening victory in Big Rapids

Chiddenton, Lawson and Follmer each net first collegiate goals as BSU Men’s Hockey defeats Ferris State

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. – Rhys Chiddenton, Donte Lawson and Tony Follmer each scored their first collegiate goals Friday night as the Bemidji State University Men's Hockey team defeated Ferris State University 4-1 in their Central Collegiate Hockey Association series opener.
 
The Beavers (9-12-0, 8-5-0 CCHA) garnered three more points in the league standings and remain atop the league standings with 25 points.
 
Sophomore Lleyton Roed led the Beavers with two assists in the game after he assisted on the first two goals while seven Beavers recorded a point. Junior Mattias Sholl got back to his winning ways and earned his fourth victory of the season by turning aside 25-of-26 Bulldog shots.
 
Bemidji State scored the crucial first goal of the game 12:14 after the opening puck drop when freshman Rhys Chiddenton corralled a loose rebound in front of the net to score his first collegiate goal.
 

 
Sophomore Kirklan Irey then put the Beavers up by two 1:43 later after Roed forced a turnover behind the Bulldog net while on the forecheck and fed a wide-open Irey who scored his fourth goal of the season.
 

 
Bemidji State took the two-goal lead into the first intermission but 2:36 into the second period, junior Donte Lawson scored his first career goal after a pass off the pad play set up by sophomore Patrik Satosaari.
 

 
Ferris State stopped the Beavers scoring run seven minutes later with a goal by Antonio Venuto that deflected off traffic in front of Sholl, but the two-goal lead was enough for BSU as Sholl held the Bulldogs to just the one goal.
 
Junior Tony Follmer iced the game late in the third period with an empty-net goal with 2:27 to play to also score his first collegiate goal from 180 feet away.
 

 
The victory snapped a two-game losing streak for the Beavers while the Bulldogs' losing streak extends to seven games. The Beavers have now won its last three CCHA games and have won four of the last five.
 
Ferris State out-shot the Beavers 26-25 in the game but were fueled by a perfect 4-for-4 penalty kill.
 
Bemidji State will attempt for its second consecutive CCHA series sweep tomorrow night when the two teams meet again for game two at 5:07 p.m. CT. BSU has not swept back-to-back league series since its days in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association during the 2019-20 season (Bowling Green-Northern Michigan).
 
For more information on the Bemidji State men's hockey program, tickets or schedules, visit BSUBeavers.com, follow the Beavers on Twitter or Instagram (@BSUBeaversMHKY), or like them on Facebook (facebook.com/BSUBeavers).
 
Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's hockey in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and women's hockey in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
 
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