UWRF men remain hot, Pederson comes up huge

UWRF takes on the Tommies

Posted on Jan 03, 2009

“We better be ready to play,” UW-River Falls coach Steve Freeman said before the Falcons game against the University of St. Thomas (Minn.). “We are excited to be back, but…

Thoughts from the captain

By Justin Magill

Posted on Jan 02, 2009

A captain can give good insight on what a team goes through during the course of the season and that is what Derek Hansberry, center for the UW-River Falls men’s…

Campbell’s knee injury rehab on schedule

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 30, 2008

After suffering a dislocated patella in her last start against UW-Eau Claire on Dec. 13, a 5-3 victory for the UW-River Falls women’s hockey team, goalie Cassi Campbell said her…

Long layoff not a concern for Freeman

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 18, 2008

UW-River Falls men’s hockey coach Steve Freeman said on Thursday that he is not worried about the three week break from games the Falcons will have due to the holiday…

Campbell dislocated patella, out at least three weeks

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 18, 2008

UW-River Falls women’s hockey goalie Cassi Campbell said her right patella is dislocated and she will be out for at least three weeks, depending on how the recovery goes. Campbell…

Campbell out with knee injury

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 17, 2008

If there was a good time to get injured during the course of the season, goalie Cassi Campbell did pick a good time to do it. However, the injury itself…

Czuba, Hansberry, Ritter continue stellar play

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 15, 2008

Not surprising anyone here, but Tyler Czuba is having an awesome season so far. He continued his hot scoring touch with a goal against Augsburg College (Minn.) in a 3-0…

Women’s hockey team strengths is its strength

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 15, 2008

Sophomore forward Jamie Briski alluded to it before and UW-River Falls coach Joe Cranston backed it up by saying this years women’s hockey team is the strongest he has ever…

Men’s team might be heating up

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 11, 2008

After starting the season’s first eight games with a 1-6-1 record, the UW-River Falls men’s hockey team have won three of its last four games and are 4-7-1 (2-4-0 NCHA).…

Women’s team records two shutouts, take over top spot in NCHA

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 08, 2008

Cassie Campbell and Melissa Deardorff recorded shutouts last weekend for UW-River Falls women’s hockey team, which won 3-0 at Lake Forest College and 4-0 at Concordia Univervisity (Wis.) and are…

UWRF can’t look past Lake Forest

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 05, 2008

UW-River Falls men’s hockey team (2-6-1, 1-3-1 NCHA) has a huge game on Saturday against defending national champion St. Norbert College, but coach Steve Freeman said they are not looking…

Top teams in Men’s NCHA struggle

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 02, 2008

After losing its first game of the season, and first conference game in almost two seasons, St. Norbert College experienced another rare occurrence. It lost its second consecutive game last…

Big weekend for both men and women

By Justin Magill

Posted on Dec 01, 2008

Thanksgiving break is over and so is my break from “Between the Pipes.” Nothing new has changed for both teams since the men’s teams 5-4 overtime victory against Marian University…

Men’s team win in overtime, national rankings has a new No. 1

By Justin Magill

Posted on Nov 26, 2008

For the second time this season UW-River Falls men’s hockey team had to go into overtime against Marian University, but this time Nolan Craner scored in the extra session to…

Losses pile up for UWRF, No. 1 St. Norbert loses

By Justin Magill

Posted on Nov 24, 2008

Two more losses this past weekend dropped the UW-River Falls men’s record to 1-6-1. UWRF lost 6-1 to UW-Eau Claire and 5-3 to UW-Stevens Point. UWRF coach Steve Freeman made…