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WSU wraps up season with 10th-place finish

Last updated Monday, March 25, 2013 - 12:15am

OGDEN — While they fell just short of a national championship, the Weber State hockey club’s performance in St. Louis during last weekend’s American Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs put the program back on the map.

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Weber State hockey club celebrates its ACHL Western Division title.
Photo courtesy of Travis Grimes

Red-hot Wildcats claim ACHA regional crown, headed to nationals

Gentry Reinhart Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, February 25, 2013 - 9:26pm

OGDEN — For the first time in five years the Weber State hockey club team is heading to the national tournament — making good on a preseason goal and setting a new one in the process: bring home a national championship.

The Wildcats breezed through the weekend’s American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Western Regionals, logging an 8-3 win over Denver University on Saturday and a 5-2 win over in-state rival University of Utah on Sunday afternoon at Steiner Ice Center.

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Are Minnesota Gophers the best women’s hockey team ever?

Joe Christensen Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Sunday, February 3, 2013 - 12:37am

MINNEAPOLIS — At the University of Minnesota, just a slap shot away from Mariucci Arena and Williams Arena, there’s a team that operates in the shadows of the nation’s No. 1-ranked men’s hockey team and two basketball programs riding roller-coaster seasons.

Gophers women’s hockey coach Brad Frost has called his team “the best-kept secret in town.”

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Pair of late goals lift Weber State over San Jose State

Gentry Reinhart Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, November 17, 2012 - 1:02am

OGDEN – A pair of third-period goals from Weber State’s Josh Giudice and Jeremiah Holmes sent Friday’s game with the fifth-ranked San Jose State Spartans into overtime and an eventual 4-3 shootout win for the Wildcats.

As shootouts are primarily for show in the American Collegiate Hockey Association the game officially ended as a tie, but try telling that to the roaring Wildcat faithful at The Ice Sheet after watching their squad come from behind against one of the best teams in the region.

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No-name North Dakota? At least for NCAA tournament

Dave Campbell, Dave Kolpack The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 6:56pm

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — This is the time of the year when a Gopher will take on a Terrier, a Greyhound can get beat by an inanimate object like a Buckeye and there are more Lions, Tigers and Wildcats loose than any local zoo would know what to do with.

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