Box Score SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The Alaska Nanooks scored twice 33 seconds apart in the middle frame to take a 2-1 lead, but the Notre Dame Fighting Irish came from behind for the second straight night to tie the game and went on to score in overtime for a 3-2 victory and series sweep on Saturday evening at the Compton Family Ice Arena.
Alaska got goals off the sticks of senior
Carlo Finucci and junior
Andy Taranto and junior goalie
Steve Thompson made a career-high 32 saves between the pipes for the Blue and Gold.
The loss dropped the Nanooks to 3-7-2 overall and kept them winless at 0-6-2-0 in Central Collegiate Hockey Association play.
Saturday's game contrasted Friday's seven-goal first period, as neither team scored through the first 20 minutes.
The Irish broke the stalemate with a power-play strike by Anders Lee at 16:27 of the second period. Lee converted passes from T.J. Tynan and Austin Wuthrich, beating Thompson high on his stick side for the 1-0 advantage.
The Nanooks responded at 4:32 of the third period, when they forced an Irish turnover that Finucci collected and sent flying past UND's goalie Steven Summerhays to tie the game at 1-1.
Just 33 seconds later, Taranto tickled the twine to give the Nanooks their first lead of the contest. Sophomore
Cody Kunyk, who netted a hat trick in the first period on Friday, carried the puck into the Irish zone and hit a streaking Taranto tearing down the right side with a crisp pass, that the junior winger wristed past Summerhays at 5:05 to make it 2-1.
Thompson frustrated UND's attackers for the next 10 minutes, but the Irish finally found a gap and got one past him at 15:41, when Tynan deflected a feed from Lee into the back of the Nanooks' net. The score remained locked at 2-2 as regulation expired, necessitating a five-minute overtime period.
In the extra session, each team registered two shots on goal before Maday's heroics set in. He drove to the net and tapped the puck in five-hole on Thompson with 41.1 seconds left to lift the Irish to a 3-2 victory.
Next up for the Nanooks is a home series with Ferris State, Nov. 18-19 at the Carlson Center. Both games faceoff at 7:35 p.m. AKST.
