{"id":1634,"date":"2017-10-26T12:25:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2017-10-26T12:25:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T17:25:23","slug":"bradley-university-hockey-having-a-successful-first-season-as-a-division-2-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/2017\/10\/26\/bradley-university-hockey-having-a-successful-first-season-as-a-division-2-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradley University Hockey Having A Successful First Season As A Division 2 Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Bradley Braves Division II hockey season has only just begun, but it is already heating up. \u00a0With a 6-2 win over Concordia University on Saturday, the Braves improved their record to 4-5-2 on the season. The team\u2019s growing popularity with the university and growing number of students interested in playing for the team pushed the team to make the decision to have 2 teams play this year; one at the Division III level, and one at the Division II level. \u00a0This gives Bradley students multiple opportunities to cheer on the Bradley hockey teams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Andre Liou, a forward on the team, says that the team\u2019s success was due to their solid top three lines. \u00a0\u201cIf we continue to roll three lines and not take too many penalties like we did on Saturday, then we\u2019re sure to get some more wins.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Logan Osborne, the Division II team\u2019s goalie, played outstanding, stopping all but two shots that he faced. \u00a0\u201cHaving a 4 goal lead is a huge confidence booster and really makes you confident as a goalie,\u201d Osborne said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bradley just barely beat Concordia the night before with a score of 4-3. \u00a0The team came out strong, ready for the sweep Saturday evening. \u00a0The game started out tense with the score tied at 1 at the end of the first period. \u00a0As the game went on however, the Braves continued to score, while Concordia stayed at 1. Throughout the next 2 periods, Bradley\u2019s offense managed to sneak 5 more goals past Concordia\u2019s defense while Concordia only managed to get 1 more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Because it was Greek Night at the Owens center, the stands were packed with Bradley students wearing their Greek letters. The Intrafraternity Council at Bradley University decided that whichever house had the most students attend the game would win 50 dollars towards their philanthropy. Given that there are 5 Delta Upsilon members on Bradley\u2019s Division II team, it was not surprising that Delta Upsilon won the money by a landslide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Melissa Wos, a senior who had never attended a Bradley hockey game prior to Saturday stated, \u201cI cannot believe I waited until my senior year to go to a hockey game. The atmosphere in the Owens Center is actually really cool.\u201d Bradley University is a unique school in that it is unusual for hockey to be such a popular sport for spectators. However, because so many of the team is in Greek life, it is not unusual for fraternities and sororities to come support the players, especially on Greek Night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, the weekend was a success for the Braves hockey team. They got the sweep against Concordia, adding 2 wins to their record, and they drew a big crowd to help cheer them on. On Friday, October 27<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the Braves will travel to the Quad Cities to take on Augustana College. They play at 7:00 on Friday night and 5:30 on Saturday. With a new and improved record, Bradley hopes to get the sweep against the Augustana College Vikings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bradley University Hockey Inaugural Season As A Division 2 Team\" width=\"352\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I8V-o6lwxmA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bradley Braves Division II hockey season has only just begun, but it is already heating up. \u00a0With a 6-2 win over Concordia University on Saturday, the Braves improved their record to 4-5-2 on the season. The team\u2019s growing popularity with the university and growing number of students interested in playing for the team pushed the team to make the decision to have 2 teams play this year; one at the Division III level, and one at the Division II level. \u00a0This gives Bradley students multiple opportunities to cheer on the Bradley hockey teams. Andre Liou, a forward on the team, says that the team\u2019s success was due to their solid top three lines. \u00a0\u201cIf we continue to roll three lines and not take too many penalties like we did on Saturday, then we\u2019re sure to get some more wins.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Logan Osborne, the Division II team\u2019s goalie, played outstanding, stopping all but two shots that he faced. \u00a0\u201cHaving a 4 goal lead is a huge confidence booster and really makes you confident as a goalie,\u201d Osborne said. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bradley just barely beat Concordia the night before with a score of 4-3. \u00a0The team came out strong, ready for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[249,52,72,252,220],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bucom360","tag-peoriail","tag-bradley-university","tag-bradley-university-hockey","tag-com360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1635,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/com.bradley.edu\/newslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}