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tenth out of sixteen competitors. and, in sabre, junior Luke Linder and senior George bivins took gold and bronze for notre dame. sophomore henry nadile and junior sean moon finished eighth and tenth out of sixteen.

on sunday, the team championships began, with the women competing first. in the first match, the irish beat no. 4 boston college 24-3. The irish swept in epee with junior amanda Pirkowski and michaela Joyce each going 5-0 in one set. in foil, the irish went 8-1 with Luong going 5-0 in a set. Finally, in sabre, the team went 7-2 with Greenbaum going undefeated in a set.

carrying that momentum into their match against no. 3 north carolina, the irish went 20-7 overall. They went 6-3 in epee and Foil, and 8-1 in sabre. Greenbaum and rebeca candescu both went 5-0 in their sets. in their final match against no. 2 duke, notre dame went 19-8. They went 6-3 in epee, 7-2 in foil and 6-3 saber. Luong went 5-0 in one of her sets in foil.

The men’s team started out by beating no. 4 duke 18-9. They went 7-2 in epee, 8-1 in foil and 3-6 in sabre. against no. 3 boston college, notre dame went 21-6 overall, going 7-2 in epee, 5-4 in foil, and sweeping in sabre. bivins went 5-0 in one of his sets in sabre. Finally, against no. 2 north carolina, the irish went 8-1 in epee, 7-2 in foil, and 7-2 in sabre. hamilton-melke and dority each went 5-0 in one of their sets.

The irish will move on to the ncaa midwest regional competition on march 11 in evanston, illinois.

Contact Annika Herko at aherko@nd.edu

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as n otre d ame grabbed four of six possible points at n o. 4 m ichigan, going beyond regulation in both games.

Friday: Irish survive early chaos to win shootout i n only nine minutes, any questions regarding the competitiveness of the series were answered. n otre d ame and m ichigan had each scored twice by the first period’s midway point. The fireworks opened during an early Wolverines power-play. With b en b rinkman in the penalty box for interference, m ichigan forward T.J. h ughes saw an opening as he entered the offensive zone. The freshman cruised between two i rish defenders and slid the puck around senior goaltender r yan b ischel for his 12th goal of the season.

Three minutes later, n otre d ame countered at the tail end of its own man advantage. Junior d rew b avaro sent a wrist shot through traffic, and senior Jesse Lansdell caught a piece of it. The change of direction fooled e rik Portillo, and the game was level at one. Within the next minute, n otre d ame untied it. While graduate forward c hayse Primeau battled behind the cage, sophomore forward Landon s laggert parked himself at the edge of the goal crease. The puck found him, and he popped the puck over Portillo’s pad for his fifth goal in six games.

a nother 57 seconds elapsed before the Wolverines offered a freshman-powered response. e ntering the i rish zone on a two-on-one, forward Jackson h allum slid the puck across the net-mouth.

i t reached linemate Gavin b rindley, who rocketed a one-timer past b ischel for his 10th goal of the campaign. b rindley had another great look several minutes later, but the 2-2 tie carried on to the first intermission.

i n the second period, n otre d ame killed off a pair of penalties, maintaining the tie through 40 minutes of play. Then, on an early third-period power play, the i rish struck again. Just after Primeau missed a yawning cage, fellow net-front presence Jack a dams bailed him out. The graduate forward drifted out from below the goal line, stuffing the puck between Portillo’s legs for the lead. With six minutes left, senior defenseman Jake b oltmann nearly added insurance but nailed the crossbar for nd ’s third piperinger of the night.

From there, the Wolverines dominated play. a fter senior defenseman n ick Leivermann took an interference penalty, they tied the game. With Portillo pulled, prolific freshman forward a dam Fantilli ripped a shot through b ischel’s wickets for his 50th point of the season. a s the game transitioned to overtime, m ichigan continued the pressure. m idway through the three-on-three period, as Fantilli and sophomore forward m ackie s amoskevich broke in alone on b ischel, c hase b lackmun saved the day. a s Fantilli prepared to hammer home the presumptive game-winning one-timer, the graduate defenseman laid out to disrupt his shot.

The shootout opened with Leivermann hoping to atone for his late penalty, and that he did. o n a slow approach, the i rish captain crossed Portillo’s face before scoring on a high wrist shot. To follow, b ischel made two saves, including a magnificent glove stop on Fantilli. The extra point came down to another freshman forward, r utger m cGroarty. h e moved in slowly and fired off a quick wrister, but b ischel made the winning pad save.

Saturday: Irish win a nailbiter in OT h eading into s aturday night’s game, the i rish needed two specific results to occur to keep their hopes of home ice alive. m ichigan’s game misconduct came on a dam Fantilli, the Wolverine’s star forward leading the country in goals. The call (contact to the head) gave the i rish a five-minute power play in the waning moments of the first and resulted in Fantilli’s ejection from the game. a fter m ichigan was called for high-sticking, n otre d ame began their best power play of the night. With just 10 seconds remaining in the advantage, b avaro caught a pass from junior forward Grant s ilianoff. b avaro returned the pass and floated off his defender before receiving a pass and letting a one-timer fly. Thanks to a screen from a dams, Portillo could not see the puck coming, and nd scored the night’s first goal. i n the next ten minutes, neither team could find twine, resulting in the second overtime in as many days.

First, they needed m innesota to complete its sweep of o hio s tate. s econdly, n otre d ame needed unranked Wisconsin to knock off Penn s tate on the road.

The o hio s tate sweep felt much more likely. o hio s tate had been shut out by m innesota 4-0 the night before. a nd while the b uckeyes got on the board twice, the Golden Gophers still completed the sweep, 5-2.

The second felt less so. The b adgers were 0-11 in conference road games. h owever, the b adgers pulled off the unlikely thanks to a powerplay goal and a review that took Penn s tate’s equalizer off the board.

The i rish now had a chance. i f n otre d ame won in regulation, they earned the third seed. a n o T win would get them fourth. a loss of any kind would keep them in sixth.

Game action began with the first of six i rish penalties when sophomore forward Tyler c arpenter was called for interference. c arpenter’s penalty set the tempo for the game. The officials would call 13 penalties for a combined 48 minutes, including two game misconducts.

The i rish began a scoreless second period with their man advantage, though the advantage did not last long. Just two minutes into the second, Leivermann was called for interference resulting in a four-on-four for the rest of Fantilli’s major.

The i rish would be called for their game misconduct when Lansdell was ejected for a cross-check to the head, giving m ichigan a five-minute power play. h owever, just as n otre d ame had cut their power-play short with a penalty, so too would m ichigan, and the second period ended as it began: scoreless.

The final penalty of the game would have massive implications for both the game and the b ig 10 standings.

The Wolverines would find the equalizer just six minutes later when they scored at 9:59. m ichigan won a faceoff in the i rish defensive zone and jammed b ischel’s crease. a fter winning the faceoff, Wolverine freshman c asey s eamus would slide the puck to r utger m cGroarty, who beat b ischel on a point-blank shot, b ischel’s only blemish on a night in which he carried the i rish defensively.

Unlike Friday night, however, the i rish would not need a shootout to win the extra conference point. With 3:30 left in o T, sophomore h unter s trand collected the puck from the corner and chipped it to b avaro. b avaro carried the puck through the neutral zone and to the near faceoff dot before taking his first shot. Portillo blocked it, but b avaro caught his rebound and shot again before catching a second rebound. The third time was indeed the charm, and b avaro got the i rish the win and fourth place in the conference standings.

Contact Thomas Zwiller and Tyler Reidy at tzwiller@hcc-nd.edu and treidy@nd.edu