Goalie Mike Zacharias stopped 26 of 27 shots, and Mick Berge scored the game-winning goal 5 1/2 minutes into the third period as the Minnesota defeated No. 12 Minnesota Duluth 2-1 Saturday at Alltel Center.
In their finest Saturday performance of the season, the Mavericks snapped a five-game winless streak and, more importantly, secured three points for the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings to inch out of the cellar.
Junior defenseman Blake Friesen scored the Mavericks' first goal in the final minute of the second period, ending a scoreless game.
But Zacharias was stellar, as he has been most of the year, allowing only a lone short-handed goal that came on a 2-on-1 rush. He upped his save percentage to .930 and his goals-against average to 1.82. But in the suddenly defensive-minded WCHA, those numbers rank fifth and sixth in the conference.
You can read more about Saturday's game as well as a feature on defenseman Kurt Davis and his father and former MSU captain Carl Davis in Sunday's Free Press.
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