Thursday night, the Beavers would send veteran Grady Hunt, wearing Dannie Morgan's No. 33 jersey due to an equipment problem, out to face freshman phenom Scott Munroe. To further complicate matters, the assigned referee missed the game due to a snowstorm north of Huntsville.

The Beavers would get scoring started Thursday night, when Riley Riddell stuffed home a Myles Kuharski centering pass from the top of the crease unmolested at 5:21 to take a quick 1-0 lead. Hunt would be solid, stopping all seven Charger shots in the opening frame.

The Chargers would answer in the second, when a long pass from Hunt, who had come out of his net to play the puck on the power play, would be intercepted by Karlis Zirnis and buried into the back of the "empty" net from neutral ice at 8:52 to tie things up at 1. It was Zirnis' ninth goal of the season. The teams would take the tie into the locker room after 40 minutes, each having taken 16 shots in the period. Munroe had 16 stops in the frame; Hunt was solid when he was in net.

The third period became the most interesting of the evening. It started with Craig Bushey knocking home a Ryan Leasa rebound at 10:11 to put the Chargers up for the first time in the evening by a score of 2-1. Jared Ross had the second assist on the goal. The Beavers would answer when Brendan Cook took the puck from behind the net, came out front and snuck it past the left skate of Munroe to tie the affair back up at two.

At the 17:08 mark, Steve Charlebois grabbed the puck away in neutral ice, skated into Beaver territory, and fired a slap shot past Hunt, hitting hard off the top-left corner of the goal cage and shooting back out as quickly as it came in to apparently take a 3-2 lead. When the goal judge did not light the lamp, many were confused. The referee stopped play and conferred with the goal judge on the play where every fan in the arena believed the Chargers were ahead. After taking a look at some photographic evidence that didn't prove the goal judge wrong, he and the referee ruled it a no goal much to the Chargers chagrin. The Boys in Blue could never get their momentum back, and regulation time ticked away with the matter unsettled at two goals apiece.

In the overtime frame the Chargers came out hard, allowing only one Beaver shot in the four minutes of play. Joel Bresciani ended it at the 4:02 mark, when Hunt couldn't control the rebound from a Ryan Leasa one-timer and Bresciani was able to stuff home the rebound for his tenth of the year to win it for the Chargers.

Munroe would finish with the win, having stopped 31 of the 33 Beaver shots to earn third star for the game. Bushey, putting the Chargers ahead in the third period with his fourth of the year, got second star. First star went to the game-winner, Bresciani. Hunt took the loss, with 36 saves on 39 Charger shots.

Friday night saw a slight return to normality, and Hunt would go against Charger veteran Mark Byrne. The Chargers would jump ahead early, with Mike Funk deflecting a Zirnis slapper from the point on an early power play opportunity at 1:48 to give the Chargers the initial lead. The Beavers would answer with two-straight goals, as Anders Olsson put a blue line blast past Byrne to tie it up on the power play at 4:02, and Riddell picked the pocket of freshman defenseman Jeff Winchester, skating up on the breakaway and beating Byrne glove side to put the Beavers up 2-1 at 18:52.

The second period saw the Chargers open scoring early once again, as the stick of Funk was the instrument used to tie the game up at 3:45, when he put home his 11th of the season off a Tyler Butler rebound for his second power-play marker of the evening. Anders Olsson kept the game in the control of the Beavers, notching his second of the night at 9:15 with another big blast from the blue line to take the Beavers into the third frame with the 3-2 advantage. With that goal, Charger coach Doug Ross decided to make a change, and sent Munroe back between the pipes for the Chargers. He would stop the remaining five shots in net for the Chargers to keep the game close.

The third period would begin and the referee would decide to put his whistle in his back pocket for the duration of the game, calling no penalties after the close of the second period. Ross would find the back of the net, putting home a Zirnis rebound at 3:40 to tie the game up at 3 and make Munroe the goaltender of record. End-to-end action and hard hitting would punctuate play in the third, but no more scoring as overtime would be needed once again.

The Beavers, playing in their 11th overtime game of the season, saw no more fortune Friday night than they did Thursday, as play would be back and forth once again, but another rebound would be the answer, as Bushey would find the twine above the right leg pad of Grady Hunt at 4:19 of the extra frame to give the Chargers a huge win on home ice.

Munroe would earn third-star honors, stopping all 13 shots he saw in the victory. Bushey's game winner would be good enough for second star. Ross would earn first star, having a hand in every score for the Chargers (1g, 3a). It was a story of rebounds for the Chargers, as Funk's deflection early in the first Friday was the only initial shot that got past Grady Hunt, who has been consistently in the top-10 nationally in goals allowed and save percentage.

The Chargers improved to 13-7-2 (8-1-1, 1st CHA) on the season while, Bemidji State dropped to 5-8-6 (3-3-2, 3rd CHA) for the year.

The Chargers will take their streak into the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and Marquette, MI as they face a near .500 Northern Michigan team Friday and Saturday. ESPN 1450-AM will carry Friday night's game live at 5:30 pm. Saturday will be on a tape-delay, but can be heard live at 5:30 pm on Eyecentric.com and SportsJuice.com.

Next Series: at Northern Michigan, Jan. 24-25