Warriors to get national spotlight

The Wayne State Warrior women's hockey team will be featured twice this upcoming season on the USCHO Women's Game of the Week.

USCHO will begin their third season of Women's games of the week with CHA powerhouse Mercyhurst facing off at Maine on Saturday, September 30 at 1 PM.

The Warriors first broadcast game will be on Saturday, November 25 at 4 PM against the Boston College Eagles at the UNH Tournament. Wayne State will then host reigning conference champion Mercyhust on Saturday, January 13 at the City Sports Ice Arena at 2 PM.

Brian Schulz will handle the play-by-play duties with a color analyst to be named later.

Adrian to build rink, add sports

From this morning's Detroit Free Press...

Adrian College president Jeffrey R. Docking announced that the school is breaking ground next week on the Arrington Ice Arena, a $5.5-million indoor facility located on campus that will allow the college to offer four new sports next school year: varsity men's and women's hockey and synchronized skating, and men's club hockey.

The only other school in Michigan with Division III hockey is Finlandia University in the Upper Peninsula.

"Michigan is a hockey state, and synchronized skating is an up-and-coming sport," Docking said.

The arena is named after brothers Robyn Jr. and Col. Harold Arrington, Adrian alums who donated $3 million.

The start of construction will be Oct. 3. The facility is to open Aug. 1.

For the official announcement, please click here. To listen to the announcement, please click here.

OU takes two OT wins from UM-Dearborn

Oakland University started the season strong this past weekend earning two overtime victories over CSCHL opponent University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Friday night was the home opener for the Grizzlies in a seesaw battle that saw five different Grizzlies net goals in a 7-6 overtime victory. Brent Cooper scored with only 42 seconds remaining to force overtime and then 30 seconds into overtime won it.

"I was ecstatic to see the guys battle like they did and not get down when Dearborn netted the goal with under two minutes remaining," Oakland head coach Sean Hogan said. "This kind of character will bode well as the season wears on."

On Saturday, the Grizzlies visited Dearborn in another barn-burner that turned out to be a 4-3 OT victory. Will McMahon and Cooper each scored two goals as Colin Chase turned aside 38 shots to earn his first collegiate victory.

Oakland travels to ACHA powerhouse Illinois to take on the Illini in a weekend series in the first-ever meeting between the two clubs.