Despite holding a one-goal lead with under two minutes to play in the title game, the Warriors found a game-tying measure with 1:10 remaining on the clock. WSU then went on to hang onto the "Bruce McCleod" trophy by scoring a questionable goal with 9:12 elapsed in the extra frame. With fellow Warrior Jason Durbin in the crease, Dusty Kingston lifted a shot from the right side getting past Charger All-Tournament team netminder Mark Byrne, who was down on the ice.

The blue and white had to rebound after taking an early 1-0 lead as Karlis Zirnis scored and the falling two goals down 3-1 as the stifling Warrior penalty killing unit slipped a shorthanded goal past Byrne. That goal seemed to bring new life into the Chargers as junior Tyler Butler blasted a shot from the blue line past the CHA Most Valuable Player David Guerrera to pull UAH back to within a goal. Just when it looked as if Wayne State would take a lead into the second intermission, freshman Craig Bushey broke through the WSU trap and scored a breakaway goal to knot the game at three.

The Chargers took their second lead of the contest with just under sixteen minutes remaining in the third as defenseman Ryan Leasa hammered home a slap shot from just inside the blue line to give UAH a 4-3 advantage. The Chargers then sent attack after attack away from their net but Tyler Kindle slipped a shot past Byrne with 1:13 left in regulation.

Posting 39 saves in the loss Byrne edged out Guerrera for the All-Tournament team where he was joined by teammates Butler and Steve Charlebois along with Warriors Kindle and Jason Durbin as well as Andy Berg from Air Force.

On Friday night's semifinal matchup, two long-time CHA rivals got together as the Chargers met up with the Bemidji State Beavers. Charlebois would star for the blue and white as he recorded his first career hat trick and the second in as many weeks for UAH after freshman Jared Ross posted one against the Beavers in the last weekend of the regular season.

Senior Jessi Otis got things going for UAH in the first scoring his first goal in nearly four months using the power play at the 5:42 mark of the first. The Chargers took a two-goal lead with just under five minutes remaining when Charlebois scored his first for the second UAH power-play goal of the net but the Beavers responded with a goal of their own fifteen seconds later to cut the lead back to one at 2-1.

Having knocked the proverbial monkey off his back in the first, Otis scored his second netter of the game at the 6:39 mark of the third to push UAH's lead back to two goals. Struggling to get good scoring chances Beaver skipper Tom Serratore pulled BSU netminder Grady Hunt from between the pipes with 3:32 left on the clock. The plan worked as Bill Methvan pulled BSU back within a goal with the extra-attacker measure with 2:56 remaining but Charlebois would seal the Chargers ticket to the finals with his third of the game, an empty netter at the 18:47 mark.

Thursday's opening round of the tournament saw the Chargers face off against the Oilers from Findlay and the boys from Ohio had the Huntsville faithful worried as UF's Chris Wyzgowski whizzed a shot past Byrne a mere 47 seconds into the match. The Chargers finally awakened after that shocker and scored the game-tying goal six minutes later as freshman Keith Rowe used the power play to UAH's advantage.

Zirnis scored the eventual game winner at the 7:12 mark of the second period before junior Jason Hawes gave UAH a two-goal cushion and then junior Joel Bresciani added an empty netter for the 4-1 win. The Chargers outshot UF 48-23 in the contest with Oiler Jamie VandeSpyker making 44 saves.