ACHA D-1 College Hockey Nationals, Columbus – University of Ill. 3 Jamestown 1<\/p>\n
Eric Cruickshank and James McGing scored third period goals to help the fifth-ranked University of Illinois Illni to a 3-1 victory over the University of Jamestown Saturday at the 2018 ACHA D1 National Championship.<\/p>\n
The Illini took a lead just 14 seconds into the game on a goal from Grant Stueve. Stueve took a rebound and found an opening past Jimmie goaltender Tyson Brouwer<\/a> (SO\/Lethbridge, Alberta) for the early advantage.<\/p>\n Jeremy McNeil<\/a> (SO\/Calgary, Alberta) tied the game for UJ at the 16:52 mark of the second on assists from Cameron Todd<\/a> (SO\/Burraneer, Australia) and Trevor Okino<\/a> (SO\/Richmond, British Columbia).<\/p>\n The score stayed 1-1 until Cruickshank’s shorthanded tally at 2:22 of the third period. The goal came 16 seconds after the Jimmies went on the power play following a Illinois tripping penalty. McGing’s clincher also came shorthanded with 3:58 remaining.<\/p>\n Brouwer had 34 saves while Illini goaltender David Heflin had 30\u00a0saves.<\/p>\n Jamestown finishes the season with a record of 23-14-0-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ACHA D-1 College Hockey Nationals, Columbus – University of Ill. 3 Jamestown 1 Eric Cruickshank and James McGing scored third period goals to help the fifth-ranked University of Illinois Illni to a 3-1 victory over the University of Jamestown Saturday at the 2018 ACHA D1 National Championship. The Illini took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77145,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140588,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140504\/revisions\/140588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}