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St. Norbert ice hockey coach Tom Coghlin, sitting proudly before the press corps, said, “This is the most proud I have been of any team I have coached,” after his Green Knights advanced to the NCAA Division III Ice Hockey Championship game with a 4-1 win over number one seeded Norwich.

It was a game of two gigantic heavyweights standing toe to toe and slugging it out for nearly three and a half periods before Laker Paul Rodrigues was on the receiving end of a Luke Moodie pass. Moodie battled along the boards for the puck and got it out of a crowd to Rodrigues who was breaking in on All-American, Division III Players of the year Jonathan LaRose.

Paul Rodrigues (Jr., Etobicoke, Ont.) scored 7:20 into overtime to move the third-ranked Oswego State men’s ice hockey team (24-3-2) into the championship game with a 2-1 win over second-ranked Amherst College (24-4-1) on Friday night at Herb Brooks Arena.

Oswego State junior forward Jon Whitelaw (Huntsville, Ont.) was recognized by the American Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA) as a 2012 Division III CCM Men’s Hockey All-America East Second Team honoree at a banquet held Thursday.

He was one of eight players in NCAA Division III men’s basketball named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-America First Team.

The win moved to the Lakers to 3-0 on the season, while the Pride dropped to 3-4.

The Oswego State men’s ice hockey team left for Lake Placid today as it continues to prepare for Friday’s NCAA Division III Men’s Hockey Championship semifinal against Amherst College. Friday’s game will be at 7:30 p.m. at Herb Brooks Arena.