Midco Sports activities to hold UND-Omaha playoff video games – Grand Forks Herald

GRAND FORKS — Midco Sports activities will carry UND’s best-of-three Nationwide Collegiate Hockey Convention quarterfinal collection from Omaha this weekend.

Alex Heinert will name the sport on play-by-play. Jake Brandt will function the analyst.

The video games additionally will probably be on NCHC TV.

Omaha has set occasions for the video games. Recreation 1 between the Combating Hawks and Mavericks will probably be 7:07 p.m. Friday. Recreation 2 will probably be at 7:07 p.m. Saturday. If the groups cut up the primary two video games, a decisive Recreation 3 will probably be held at 6:07 p.m. Sunday.

Midco will host a 30-minute pregame present earlier than Friday’s recreation and 15-minute exhibits earlier than Saturday and Sunday.

Will probably be a crucial collection for each groups.

The winner will advance to the NCHC Frozen Faceoff in St. Paul’s Xcel Power Middle on March 17-18. The loser’s season will probably be over.

UND and Omaha have performed 4 occasions this season. The Combating Hawks are 3-0-1.

UND earned a win and a tie in a November collection in Omaha’s Baxter Area. That was the convention opener for each groups.

The Combating Hawks swept a pair of down-to-the-wire video games in Grand Forks final weekend, successful 5-4 in time beyond regulation on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday.

Schlossman has coated faculty hockey for the Grand Forks Herald since 2005. He has been acknowledged by the Related Press Sports activities Editors as the highest beat author for the Herald’s circulation division 4 occasions and the North Dakota sportswriter of the 12 months as soon as. He resides in Grand Forks. Attain him at [email protected].