The Purdue Northwest ACHA D3 Hockey team won both games of their weekend series against Olivet Nazarene. Winning Game 1 on Friday night, 3-2, and Game 2 on Saturday evening, 5-3.

The Basics

• Records: Purdue Northwest (8-6), Olivet Nazarene (2-11-1)
• Location: The Kube - Hammond, Ind.
• Attendance: 350

Game 1 
Inside The Numbers

• Senior Cole Bocock led Purdue Northwest with two goals.
• Freshman Joey Ansari also contributed with a goal and an assist.
• Sophomore Brendan Kerrick (St. John, Ind./Lake Central HS) and Freshman Anthony Caserta (Perth, Ontario/Perth District Collegiate Institute) both dished out an assist.
• Senior Zander Zafiro (Williams Bay, Wis,/Morris) played all 60 minutes in goal for the Pride and made 25 saves.
• Roan Burke led Olivet Nazarene with a goal and an assist.
• Connor Nugent played all 60 minutes in goal for Olivet Nazarene and had 45 saves.

The Breakdown

• The Pride scored the first goal of the game in the first period from Bocock to take a 1-0 lead after one.
• Purdue Northwest ended period one trailing by one goal. As Madsen and Burke of Olivet Nazarene each netted a goal in period 1.
• The Pride would tie the game 2-2 in period 2 with a power play goal from Bocock.
• In the final few minutes of period three Ansari would net a go-ahead goal for the Pride to secure the victory. 

Game 2
Inside The Numbers

• Freshman Jacob Lee (Osceola, Ind./Penn) and Freshman Brett Bandstra (Schererville, Ind./Lake Central) led The Pride each with a goal and an assist.
• Freshman Nick Anderson (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point), Junior Luke Eenigenburg (Munster, Ind./Munster HS), and Freshman Cody Graniczny (Beecher, Ill./Beecher) each had a goal.
• Freshman Anthony Caserta (Perth, Ontario/Perth District Collegiate Institute) and Luke Hoffman (Valpo, Ind./Valpo) each dished out an assist.
• Junior Vincent DiDonato (Dyer, Ind./Lake Central HS) played all 60 minutes in goal for the Pride and made 26 saves.
• Noah Domagalski led Olivet Nazarene with two goals.
• Curran Allison played all 60 minutes in goal for Olivet Nazarene and had 49 saves.

 
The Breakdown

• Bandstra netted The Prides first goal in period one to tie the game 1-1 going into period two.
• Each team exploded offensively in period two with Olivet Nazarene netting two goals and The Pride scoring three. Lee, Anderson, and Eenigenburg each netted a goal in period two for The Pride.
• In period three Olivet Nazarene would tie the game with an early goal but The Pride would answer right back with a goal from Graniczny to close out the game.

Up Next

• The Pride next hit the road to take on Purdue in a weekend series. Game one is set for Friday, December 2 at 6:30 p.m. in Indianapolis, Indiana.