GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.- Calvin University's Division 1 ACHA hockey suffered its first loss of the season at home on Saturday night, splitting the series with Davenport. The Knights lost 5-4 in overtime and are now 1-1 on the year.
Tony Eaton scored the opening goal of the game for Calvin 1:43 into the 1st period off a turnover from Davenport's Goalie. Calvin increased its lead 2-0, 12:33 into the 1st as
Joel Fonovic knocked in a one time blast off a rebounded shot. The period ended with the Knights up 2-0. Davenport cut into Calvin's lead 3:11 into the 2nd period with a goal from Ryder McMillan.
Davenport took advantage of a power play in the 9th minute of the period with a goal from Brandon Bower to even the game back up at 2-2.
Just 1:17 into the 3rd period Davenport took its first lead of the game with another power play goal from Brandon Bower. Davenport would increase its lead 5:13 into the period with a goal by Ryan Blackburn to go up 4-2 in the final period of regulation.
Tony Eaton poked in a shot with 8:46 left to play to get the Knights back within 1.
Hayden Zimmerman blasted one in from distance with 5:53 left to tie the game back up at 4-4, and send the game to overtime.
Davenport won the draw in overtime and went right down the ice to score just 17 seconds in. Luke Mikkola put the game winning goal in, to upset 12th ranked Calvin University.
COACHES COMMENT: Head coach
Josh Petrusma, "Hats off to Davenport for the win. They earned it and outworked us for much of the game. I'm proud of the way we battled back to force overtime, but we were undisciplined far too often tonight which put us in a hole we had to dig out of. We've got some very tough opponents coming up this week and we're looking forward to getting back to work."
NEXT UP: Calvin takes on the University of Mary on Wednesday October 15th at home. The game will be at 8:30pm at Eagles Ice Arena