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Hockey Badgers open season with win over Michigan Tech (AUDIO)

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Linus Weissbach

Freshman forward Linus Weissbach scored two goals in his debut for the No. 11/12 Wisconsin Badger men’s hockey team, helping UW win the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game against Michigan Tech, 3-2, at the Kohl Center on Sunday.

The Badgers (1-0-0) improved to 5-1-0 in the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game.  They outshot Michigan Tech (0-1-0), 27-22.

Junior forward Will Johnson opened the scoring 5:51 into the first period, scoring on the rebound of junior Seamus Malone’s wraparound attempt.

Five minutes later, Weissbach tallied his first goal as a Badger after MTU’s Jake Jackson was called for slashing.  The Gothenburg, Sweden, native collected a blocked shot and set it over Patrick Munson’s right shoulder to give the Badgers a 2-0 lead. [Read more…]

Hockey Badgers open season with U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game

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The Wisconsin men’s hockey team will open its 2017-18 season with the United States Hockey Hall of Fame game in Madison on Sunday, Oct. 1 against Michigan Tech.

The first regular-season game comes quickly for the Badgers, who officially begin practice just one day earlier, Sept. 30.  Last season, Wisconsin opened with an exhibition against Victoria.

Michigan Tech finished second in the WCHA during the regular season and won the Broadmoor Trophy, the WCHA’s conference title, by defeating Bowling Green in double overtime to earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.  The Huskies fell to eventual national champions, Denver, 5-2, in the opening round of the national tournament.

The two teams are former WCHA opponents, having met 156 times.  The Badgers own a 99-47-10 advantage and a 61-18-6 record in Madison.  The two teams split their last series, in early January of 2015.

The U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame Game is an exempt game which means both schools can play one additional game above and beyond the NCAA maximum normally allowed in a season.

St. Norbert football names Vanderlin Def. Coordinator

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Drew Vanderlin

Drew Vanderlin

St. Norbert College football coach Dan McCarty has announced the hiring of Green Bay native Drew Vanderlin as the teams new defensive coordinator/linebackers coach.

Vanderlin arrives at St. Norbert after spending four seasons as the defensive line coach and head strength and conditioning coach at UW-Stevens Point.  Vanderlin helped develop nine all-conference defensive linemen during his first three seasons with the Pointers, including two All-Americans.

Vanderlin was a four-year starter at Michigan Tech and finished his career with the second-most sacks in school history.

Following his collegiate career, Vanderlin participated in Rookie Orientation Camps with the Kansas City Chiefs and Green Bay Packers, and was signed to the Packers’ practice squad in 2013.

Barnes takes head womens job at Youngstown State

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Former Green Bay women’s basketball associate head coach John Barnes has been hired as the head coach at Youngstown State.  Barnes becomes the seventh head coach of a Penguins’ program that finished second in the Horizon League last season before advancing to the second round of the 2013 WNIT Tournament.

Barnes, a four-year basketball player and 1995 graduate of Michigan Tech University started his coaching career at his alma mater in 2003 as the head coach of the women’s basketball team.  From 2003-10, he led the Huskies to a 156-55 record with five appearances in the NCAA Division II Championships.  He was named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year three times and his program never had a losing season.

He served as an assistant at Wisconsin during the 2010-11 season before assuming the same position at Michigan under Kevin Borseth for the 2011-12 campaign.

Barnes replaces Horizon League Coach of the Year Bob Boldon who accepted the same position at the University of Ohio in March.