I am either going to be really happy or really angry when I leave Bellingham on Saturday. Hopefully the former. WWU won easily last time at home vs a depleted WOU roster in 2010 and I dont think this year will be much different but I am still nervous. I do wish we could see this game with WOU at full strength but history tells me this won't be the only time they meet eachother this year.

Ya, WOU unfortunately has got hit with the low roster/injury bug that has plagued other PNCLL teams in the past and present. It is tough, but can really bring a team together in the long run. WOU's young guns will get to learn a lot from this as they are being pushed into the spotlight. No fun now, but it will really pay off for the Wolves possibly as soon as playoffs if guys continue to work hard every week, no matter what happened the week before.

Concordia 14, Portland 6

since Portland is the only team playing games so far this week - what's up with them? They gave up 10 goals to Whitman in their first game, but except for the loss to Concordia they seem real solid on defense, but the offense looks non-existent except against the real bad teams. Did they lose a bunch of guys on offense to injury?

503laxghost said:

since Portland is the only team playing games so far this week - what's up with them? They gave up 10 goals to Whitman in their first game, but except for the loss to Concordia they seem real solid on defense, but the offense looks non-existent except against the real bad teams. Did they lose a bunch of guys on offense to injury?

Yeah LaxJunky hit it perfectly, when has UP had a potent offense? I think they are certainly building towards that by having 5 freshman leading all scorers. Since entering the MCLA in 2009 the Pilots have had only 8 games (20%) where they scored 10 or more goals but they are 8-0 in those games.

Friday, March 16th

Illinois @ Oregon – 7PM PT - Oregon
Idaho @ UCLA – 7PM PT - UCLA :(

Saturday, March 17th

Montana @ Boise State – 4PM MT - Boise State
Illinois @ Simon Fraser (Salem, OR) – 5PM PT - Illinois :(
Idaho @ Santa Clara – 5PM PT - Idaho yeaaaah PNCLL!!!

Dan_Wishengrad said:

UCLA 5
Idaho 3

Barn burner!

bhsvideodad said:

Oregon 21-3 over Illinois (ranked 18 for now). Oregon put up 20 against Simon Fraser, 19 against Florida, 21 against Illinois. There offense is cooking. OK I skipped over their 10-5 win against the UW.

No shame in that win over U-Dub, in which I thought the Ducks would be held to 9 until a late goal in the final minute. The Ducks were by far the better team, but Spencer Adams came up huge in goal for the Huskies that day and kept the margin respectable.

Washington has been hit really hard by injuries in 2012, and was without not only Linari but also lost defensive stalwart Candoo very early against UO. Coach Kerns deserves credit for keeping Dawgs focused and battling through the adversity against some really good competition during this brutal stretch of games. It won't get easier next week, when UW heads to Colorado for games at CSU and CU.

Boise State defeats Montana 8 to 6.

Santa Clara 12
Idaho 7

Another dismal year for the PNCLL in OOC competition. Although Oregon is 4-2 and SFU is 2-2 now in these games, the rest of our conference is 0-16 against D1 OOC opposition.

CBludorn said:

And UW is taking a Colorado trip this week too... Also sorry to say but Montana is not a "good team". Just go back and look at their wins/losses and try to justify that comment. You cant do it.

Agreed. Good teams win games.

Ok this D1 discussion is massively overtaking the all important division 2 forum talk. I wanted to take a minute to highlight the Western Bowl. WWU is a team that seemed light years ahead of where they were in the Vegas games. It didn't hurt that they shot the lights out in the first quarter (12 shots, 11 on cage, 6 goals) and our goalie had to work for everyone of those saves. They boast a very confident midfield. Their trio of freshman (Goodman, Stafford, and Hatcher) all played lights out and make this Viking squad a scary opponent for the next few seasons. Just a quick plug for Hatcher as well, I know the WWU alum in Vegas were bummed that he couldn't travel and now I see why he is hands down my FOTY candidate if he continues to play in games the way he did (otherwise it will go to Goodman or Stafford most likely). It was great to see another battle of the 4's with Mark Iliyn and Colin Gaddy both putting on a hattrick performance (very 2010 championshipesque). I think the brightest spot for WOU was close defenseman Logan Marks performance holding a very capable Farahani scoreless while forcing two turnovers and collecting 7 gbs. Lastly and I think this is important to say because admittedly I get on the refs too much, the officiating crew was phenomenal. This was a heavyweight battle and both teams were not pulling any punches and the refs maintained complete control and called the most consistent game I have witnessed from a MCLA crew. I fear that both teams will have players foul out in their next PNCLL games because of how vastly different this game was called but it was worth it to get a playoff like game in March.

Not from the PNCLL but I will say good job anyways... maybe then people will get back to talking..... Seriously? Big weekend in St. Louis and no one wants to chat about or argue about what might happen? I'm bored peoples!

CWU 14
Humboldt State 11

CBludorn said:

I was just checking out SFUs schedule and I am curious as to why they are going down to LA to play just 1 game against LMU? Seems like a long way for 1 game.

They are playing Chapman on Friday night, then LMU on Sunday.

Are one of you hipsters gonna put up a March 19th - 25th thread? Mit games?

-1

WWU win over CSU-LB, aka the beach, 12-6. They have Fullerton on tap today at 4pm. Should be a good one.