Good morning, Saints!
Time for another edition of Points & Prattle here on Voice of the Saints. It’s been a relatively slow week around here, and it’s a home-game-less weekend, which means plenty of time for my plethora of homework to be done… Sigh. But before we get to that, let’s look back at the week that was here at CSS.
- The No. 7 Saints men’s hockey team had an impressive Thanksgiving weekend, defeating Salem State on Friday night thanks to a goal from senior Jordan Baird in OT. Salem then went on to down the then-No. 1 team in the country, St. Norbert, on Saturday afternoon 3-0. CSS then went on to handily defeat Lawrence University Saturday evening by a 7-3 final, which included the first goal of the season for senior Jordan Chong. In the end, it moved the Saints up one spot from eight and moved Norbert down to third going into this weekend’s conference showdown.
- The Saints will need to take at least a couple points from St. Norbert this weekend if they want to slow down the conference leaders, who, at 6-0-0 in-conference with 12 points, is at least five points better than its next highest competitor and six ahead of CSS.
- Baird was named the third star of the weekend in the NCHA for his game-winner.
- Comparatively, the men’s basketball team had a relatively disappointing weekend, facing off against border rival Wis.-Superior on Saturday afternoon and falling by a 78-59 final. The Saints are 1-3 on the young season, but have plenty of reason for optimism entering conference play against Northwestern and Crown colleges this weekend.
- Check out Coach Staniger’s Shout-Out!!! to the fans this week here.
- The CSS women’s basketball team also had a disappointing weekend, falling in two games at the Wis.-Stout Tournament to the host-Blue Devils as well as Wartburg College. Despite the one-sided scores, senior Kirsten Haukom still had a good weekend, just barely missing a double-double with 14 points and eight rebounds on Saturday afternoon.
- Last, but certainly not least, our Nordic ski team enjoyed a week in Yellowstone last weekend, and finally got to see some snow. I go to junior Mason Bacso for my Nordic ski updates, and he says it was a successful week which included a lot of training, a lot of fun, and the movie “Scent of a Woman” on Thanksgiving.
- Of those skiers who did compete, junior Julia Curry and freshman Kasey Bacso led the women’s and men’s teams, respectively. For more info, check out the write-ups here and here.
I have nothing to shamelessly plug this week, so that might be all we have for this go-around. Next week, expect a write-up previewing next week’s hockey Bridge Battle against UWS on Tuesday-ish and another P&P on Friday morning.
Just 20 shopping days ’til Christmas,
-jh
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