Junior defense­men Zach Redmond scored the game-winning goal for the No. 8 nation­ally ranked Ferris hockey team with 24 sec­onds remain­ing to beat the University of Michigan.

Redmond took a pass from senior left wing Blair Riley and was able to get the puck past Michigan goal­tender Bryan Hogan to break a 2–2 tie and ulti­mately give the Bulldogs the win.

“We stayed dis­ci­plined and played hard-nosed hockey, and with a lit­tle luck, I was able to find the back of the net,” said Redmond.

Ferris struck first as senior Casey Haines cashed in off a turnover at 6:20 in the first period with a short-handed goal to give the Bulldogs an early 1–0 advantage.

The Bulldogs car­ried a 2–1 lead late into the third period until Redmond was sent to the box with only 2:38 remain­ing. The Wolverines did not squan­der the man advan­tage as Brian Lebler ric­o­cheted the puck past Ferris goalie Pat Nagle to tie the game with less than two min­utes remaining.

With under a half minute to go and Ferris now on the power play, Redmond was able to avenge his ear­lier mis­take as he tal­lied the game-winner to give Ferris the lead for good.

The vic­tory also snapped a three-game los­ing skid for the Bulldogs, which was the team’s longest win­less streak this sea­son. Bulldog head coach Bob Daniels believes it was a very impor­tant win for his team.

“This is prob­a­bly the top win of the sea­son as we needed to stop some bleed­ing,” said Daniels.

Ferris dropped a 2–0 deci­sion to the Wolverines in the first con­test of the series.

The game was score­less after the first, but that quickly changed as Michigan struck twice in the sec­ond period and that proved to be enough. Hogan saved all 22 Ferris shots in the shutout.

It marked the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive Friday in which the Bulldogs did not score.

“We need the same amount of effort both nights,” said Daniels. “We can’t keep dig­ging our­selves out of a hole.”

Following the series split, Ferris is now 17−7−2 over­all and 11−5−2−2 in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). The Bulldogs are third in the CCHA stand­ings with 37 points, one point behind Michigan State and eight points behind Miami.

The team trav­els next to Columbus, Ohio to face off against the Ohio State Buckeyes. Earlier this sea­son, the Bulldogs swept the Buckeyes as they won 8–1 and 6–5 in Big Rapids.