UAH completed its 2015-16 season in ugly fashion Saturday night, losing to Bowling Green 5-0 at the Von Braun Center.

The Chargers (7-21-6 overall, 5-17-6 WCHA) were shut out for the third time this season. The Falcons (20-12-6 overall, 16-7-5 WCHA) host a first-round WCHA playoff series against Bemidji State next week.

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The first period saw a few penalties and a few power plays, but that was just the beginning.

UAH could not convert on its first two (including a two-man advantage for 1:14), but Bowling Green did on its first. Brett D’Andrea beat Charger goaltender Carmine Guerriero from just in front of the crease for a 1-0 Falcon lead with 8:00 left in the first.

Bowling Green got another power play with 4:23 left after Brandon Parker gets called for slashing, but UAH killed that along with a shorthanded breakaway chance by Adam Wilcox.

Then with 1:38 left in the first, the Falcons got a two-man advantage of their own after Brent Fletcher was given a minor for charging, and Anderson White got a major for kneeing on a collision with Mitch McLain that required McLain to be helped off the ice and to the locker room.

The hard-hitting, penalty-inducing play continued into the second period. UAH killed the remainder of the two-man advantage and the major power play, then got two more advantages itself on a holding penalty on Sean Walker and an interference call on McLain, who was able to return to action.

UAH still couldn’t score on BG netminder Chris Nell, and had to survive another penalty kill after having too many men on the ice.

With all that, Bowling Green didn’t need any power plays to extend its lead. John Schilling made it 2-0 at 6:47 of the second, firing the puck alone in front of Guerriero, who made the save. The rebound came right to Schilling behind Guerriero, and Schilling buried it.

On UAH’s fifth power play of the night, Nell stoned Josh Kestner after a nice pass from Chad Brears. That was the Chargers’ best scoring chance at that point.

The Falcons took a 3-0 lead with 56 seconds remaining in the second when Stephen Baylis beat Guerriero high from the slot.

At the end of the second, Frank Misuraca hit BG’s Tyler Spezia high at center ice. Spezia was slow to get up, and Misuraca, one of the four seniors playing his last game for UAH, only got a minor penalty.

The third period was all Bowling Green. The Falcons outshot the Chargers 20-6 for the period, finishing with a 36-24 advantage for the game.

BG made it 4-0 on a Brandon Hawkins goal at 7:10, and Baylis got his second goal of the night on the power play at 13:16.

Nell rebounded from allowing six goals in UAH’s 7-5 win on Friday night to posting his fourth shutout of the season. He made 24 saves.

Guerriero stopped 31 of 36 shots for UAH.

The Falcons were 2-of-8 on the power play, while the Chargers where 0-for-7.

The Chargers, playing for pride in their last series of the 2015-16 season, scored four third-period goals to beat Bowling Green 7-5 on Friday night at the Von Braun Center.

UAH (7-20-6 overall, 5-16-6 WCHA) scored seven goals for the first time since 2008, six of them against the top goaltender in the WCHA in Bowling Green’s Chris Nell.

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Bowling Green (19-12-6 overall, 15-7-5 WCHA) was eliminated from the race for the MacNaughton Cup as regular season champions. The Falcons will be the third seed, hosting a first-round playoff series in the WCHA tournament.

Bowling Green scored first at only the 1:47 mark, when Kevin Dufour scored for his third straight game. He put in a rebound past UAH goaltender Matt Larose off a Scott Walker shot from the point.

The Falcons had the first five shots on goal, but then somehow UAH went on a burst, scoring three unanswered goals on just eight shots.

The first came at 7:03, when the captain, Brent Fletcher, took the puck behind the net, wrapping around Nell’s right and scored his fourth goal of the season. He was assisted by Regan Soquila.

Then Soquila gave the Chargers the lead at 9:53, when on a delayed penalty call (a slash by Dufour), deflecting a Brandon Carlson shot past Nell while camped in front. Adam Wilcox also assisted on Soquila’s third goal of the season.

Almost five minutes later, UAH made it 3-1. Hans Gorowsky, on a two-on-one with Jetlan Houcher, beat Nell stick-side from the slot for his second goal. Chad Brears was credited with his ninth assist. That’s how the first period ended.

The second period was all Falcons, who awakened with three unanswered goals of their own to retake the lead.

Again, BG struck quickly, this time at 1:31, as Tyler Spezia rushes down the left side and beats Larose five hole to cut UAH’s lead to 3-2.

Following a Carlson hooking penalty, the Falcons tied the game on the power play with 6:49 remaining in the period. In a scramble in front of the net, Stephen Baylis, while being taken down, somehow put the puck in. While the goal light went on, the officials did not see it, but called a goal following a lengthy video review.

Bowling Green took a 4-3 lead with 1:42 left in the 2nd, as Brandon Hawkins sniped one past Larose from between the top of the circles.

The Falcons outshot the Chargers 15-4 in the period.

So if UAH’s first period was good and its second period was bad, what about the third period?

Fabulous. The Chargers scored four times.

Matt Salhany got things started, picking Adam Smith’s pocket and turned on the jets for a breakaway, scoring at the 8:13 mark to tie the game at 4-4.

After a scramble in the UAH net that lead to another review of a potential Bowling Green goal — this time no — the Chargers got another power play. Josh Kestner‘s one-timer from the left circle gave UAH the lead again at 5-4 with 8:53 left. Cam Knight made the pass from the right point to set up Kestner’s sixth goal of the season, and Jack Prince got the secondary assist.

A minute 20 later, Max McHugh scored his seventh goal of the season, taking the puck from center ice and beating Nell stick side, to make it 6-4 Chargers.

Bowling Green would get one back with 4:42 left on a goal by Sean Walker.

The Falcons pulled Nell for the extra attacker with 1:43 left and on the power play (after a boarding penalty on Kestner). But after the power play was killed, Kestner was able to sink the empty-net goal, his second of the game, for the final 7-5 result.

Seven goals, despite UAH being outshot 32-20 for the game. The last time UAH scored seven goals in a game was Feb. 1, 2008, also a 7-5 win at Robert Morris. That was also the last time the Chargers scored four goals in a period.

Larose had 27 saves in the contest, while Nell only stopped 13 of 19.

The season finale is Saturday night at 7:07 p.m. at the Von Braun Center. Four UAH seniors will be honored before the game.

There will officially be no postseason for the Chargers, who lost 6-2 to Bemidji State in Minnesota on Saturday.

UAH (6-20-6 overall, 4-16-6 WCHA), on a seven-game winless streak, will wrap up the 2015-16 season next week at home against Bowling Green. Next Saturday night will be Senior Night.

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Bemidji State (15-13-6 overall, 10-11-5 WCHA) punched a ticket to the WCHA playoffs Friday, and sit in sole possession of sixth place.

The Beavers took control at the opening bell, scoring just 11 seconds in as John Parker drove down the right side of the Charger zone and beat goaltender Matt Larose high.

UAH regrouped and found some offensive pressure of their own, peppering BSU netminder Michael Bitzer with a few shots on goal, but that was the most the Chargers could muster in the first period.

With 5:53 left in the period, UAH’s Madison Dunn tripped BSU’s Kyle Bauman in the neutral zone, giving the Beavers a power play. A quick turnover gave Matt Salhany a shorthanded breakaway. Salhany, who missed a penalty shot on Friday, hit the post.

After that, it all fell apart for UAH.

The Beavers then converted their power play for a 2-0 lead. Gerry Fitzgerald scored on a one-timer blast from the left point.

Then with 49.6 seconds left in the first, Brennan Saulnier leveled Graeme McCormack without the puck in the corner of the Bemidji zone. Saulnier got a five-minute major for charging and a game misconduct — Saulnier’s fourth misconduct or game misconduct of the season.

BSU scored on the major power play just 17 seconds in, with Myles Fitzgerald making it 3-0 after one.

The Beavers tacked another on the power play at 3:41 of the second for a 4-0 lead. John Parker’s second goal of the night from the slot.

Brandon Parker gets UAH on the board at the halfway point of the game, scoring his third goal of the season from the right circle. Jack Prince got his fifth assist of the year on the play, and Brandon Carlson got his first helper.

But Bemidji State regained the four-goal lead with Myles Fitzgerald’s second goal of the game, driving to the net right from the draw with 4:03 left in the second.

Madison Dunn scored UAH’s second goal with 13:30 left, taking the puck bounced off the boards behind the Bemidji net and scoring from the slot to cut BSU’s lead to 5-2.

UAH had a chance to make it interesting with a power play with under 10 minutes to go, but Bemidji State capitalized on a 2-on-1 shorthanded opportunity to put the game away for good. Charlie O’Connor had the final goal.

The Beavers outshot UAH 38-17, and went 3-for-7 on the power play. Larose made 32 saves, while Bitzer stopped 15 for BSU.

Playoff chances aside, this was just a crazy UAH-Bemidji State game. The Chargers and Beavers battled to a frantic finish in a 1-1 tie in Bemidji, Minn. on Friday night.

UAH (6-19-6 overall, 4-15-6 WCHA) survived a third-period dominated by the Beavers, but missed on a power play and penalty shot in overtime.

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That makes it somewhat of a missed opportunity for the Chargers, who really need wins at this point for any shot at the WCHA playoffs. UAH is four points behind the eighth and final playoff spot held by Alaska Anchorage, which lost to Minnesota State 3-0. The Chargers did get help when ninth-place Alaska lost at Michigan Tech 6-5.

Meanwhile, Bemidji State (14-13-6 overall, 9-11-5 WCHA) clinched a spot in the WCHA postseason.

UAH’s star was Matt Larose, who made 36 saves in all sorts of ways. Bemidji State outshot the Chargers 37-23.

No scoring in the first, but it was physical. Despite the chippiness, no penalties were called until UAH captain Brent Fletcher and BSU’s Corey Ward were called for roughing after an entanglement at the end of the period.

Larose stood strong, making 11 saves in the period. Three came on a sequence in the middle of the period where each of Bemidji State’s Fitzgerald triplets — Leo, Myles, and Gerry — had a shot saved from close range.

BSU’s other best scoring chance of the first period came with about five minutes left. Larose made a save on Leo Fitzgerald and went down after the rebound. The Beavers attempted about three more shots as the rest of the Chargers, including defensemen Cody Champagne and Brandon Carlson guarding the crease, stood into keep the game scoreless.

UAH’s best chance to score was just before that, when BSU goalie Michael Bitzer misplayed the puck and was out of position. But Bitzer scrambled back to the crease in time to stop Tyler Poulsen‘s shot from the slot for one of his 21 saves on the night.

The physicality continued in the second, but this time, penalties were called. Each team was called for three minors.

UAH had four power plays (although two were 10 seconds or fewer), and broke through on the fourth power play with 2:21 left in the second. Jetlan Houcher‘s shot from the right circle led to a rebound to Madison Dunn, who snuck the puck under Bitzer and crossed the goal line just long enough for the referee to call it a goal.

It was Dunn’s third goal of the season, assisted by Houcher (his fifth assist) and Poulsen (his third).

The Chargers were solid killing Bemidji State’s two power plays of the period.

Bemidji State took control in the third period, and the Beavers continued to buzz after Cory Ward tied the game at 1-1 with 12:26 remaining. An odd bounce went to Brendan Harms, who centered the pass to an all-alone Ward, and Larose could not stop it.

But Larose did make some amazing stops the remainder of regulation. With 2:54 to go, he gloved John Parker’s attempt on his breakaway. He then denied Ward on a 2-on-1 with 14 seconds remaining.

That led to overtime, where each team had their chances to win the game, but not as big as the Chargers. BSU’s Dan Billet slashed Matt Salhany‘s stick out of his hand on a breakaway, but a power play was called instead of a penalty shot with 4:12 left.

UAH could not score on the power play, as BSU actually pinned the Chargers back for a significant time. After it expired, Salhany had another breakaway, but this time a penalty shot was called as Graeme McCormack took him down with 1:49 to go.

Salhany missed on the penalty shot, and they played on. Larose came up big twice, stopping Harms and Billet as UAH continued to scramble in the defensive zone in the final minute.

Game two of the series is 7:07 p.m. Saturday night.

Notes: This was UAH’s sixth tie of the season, setting a program record. … UAH has now failed to score on its last six penalty shots, three of which occurred in the past two months. The last successful penalty shot came in 2006. … Salhany also missed on a penalty shot against Northern Michigan last season. … The Chargers ended a five-game losing streak against Bemidji State.