Team skates away with win, tie

The IU men's club hockey team came into this weekend knowing their opponents had been two of the few teams this season to keep them out of the "W" column. \nDespite walking away with a win and a tie, there were glum faces in the Hoosier locker room after Saturday night's 2-2 tie against the Michigan Wolverines.\n"We were really hoping for two wins," coach Rich Holdeman said. "If you had asked me with three minutes left in the third period tonight, I would have been ecstatic to walk away with a tie. The way we played tonight, we should feel fortunate to get a tie."\nMichigan went at the Hoosiers (15-3-2, 3-1-2), and kept the prolific IU offense off the board for the first two periods before Tim McMahon pounced on a Justin Peck rebound and dented the net behind Wolverine goaltender Tom Best to tie the game at one apiece.\nBut Michigan, who tied the Hoosiers earlier this season in Ann Arbor, came right back and tied the game just 46 seconds later. Michigan's Nick Wayne was left wide open in front and fooled IU's Charlie Pulley to pull ahead, 2-1.\nCenter David Dassell got a shot on net right after the faceoff to tie the score.\n"The goal we got to tie it was just incredible," Holdeman said. "We needed something like that because we weren't making it on our own."\nThe Hoosiers had a chance to win the game when leading scorer Bryan Grant walked in on Best with two seconds remaining. \nBut their hopes were shot down as Grant's shot rang off the cross bar and the final buzzer sounded. \nFriday night was a different story, as the Hoosiers were ready to face an Oakland University team that embarrassed them in an 8-5 loss earlier this season. \nWith Grant and his linemates, Brandon Phillips and Dan Hauck struggling with the flu, IU's "navy line" of David Ravensberg, Clint Heiber and Gordy Haggard combined for nine points in a 5-3 victory.\n"Our line came to play on Friday night," said Haggard, who picked up two goals and an assist in the win. "It was a good effort by the navy line."\nAfter jumping out to a quick 1-0 lead, the Golden Grizzlies quieted the IU crowd when Sean Trueblood beat IU goaltender Josh Block to tie the game. But a shorthanded giveaway by Oakland popped off Ravensberg's stick and into the Golden Grizzly goal to give the Hoosiers a lead that they would not relinquish.\nThe "navy line" extended the lead to 3-1 when Heiber beat an Oakland defender and put a shot on net. Haggard was there for the rebound, which he shot into an open net.\nHaggard scored again in the third in on a shorthanded effort.\nThe senior winger intercepted a pass at the Golden Grizzly blue line and fooled Zeldes low to give the Hoosiers a 7-4 lead.\n"The guy tried to cut across, I just poked it off his stick," Haggard said. "It was me and the goalie and I beat him blocker side with a pretty good wrist shot."\nDespite illnesses, the Hoosiers are confident in the remainder of the season.\n"We're not going to panic yet," said Hauck, who was too ill to finish the game Saturday and was replaced on the top line by Rhys Anderson. "With the remaining games on our schedule, we're going to need to step up if we're gonna win. We'll just have to see what happens"