Back in the win column. It’s a wonderful thing.

Richard Buri‘s goal early in the third period was the game-winner as UAH ended an 11-game winless streak Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Colorado College.

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Matt Larose made 35 saves in net for the Chargers, who won for the first time since winning at Lake Superior State on Oct. 31. UAH (4-12-2) won at home for the first time since beating Connecticut on Oct. 9.

Colorado College (4-16-0) scored the first goal 19 seconds into the second period to take the first lead. Sam Rothstein was assisted by Nashville Predators prospect Teemu Kivihalme and Luc Gerdes.

UAH tied it up at the 8:34 mark of the second, as Adam Wilcox scored his third goal of the season, deflecting a Jack Prince shot past CC goalie Jacob Nehama while on the power play. It was Prince’s fourth assist of the year, while Jetlan Houcher got his second helper.

The Chargers got their lead as Buri’s shot trickled between Nehama’s legs at 2:56 of the third period. Buri’s first goal of the season was assisted by Brennan Saulnier and Frank Misuraca.

UAH continued its great run of penalty killing, extending its streak of power plays killed to 32. UAH has not allowed a power play goal in eight games.

Colorado College went 0-for-5 on the power play, including a 5-minute stretch covering most of the end of the second period after UAH’s Hans Gorowsky was called for a checking-from-behind major and a game misconduct.

Colorado College outshot UAH 36-33 in the contest.

The Chargers get next weekend off for Christmas before heading to Grand Forks to take on North Dakota over New Year’s. UAH is back at home on Jan. 8-9, resuming WCHA play against Alaska.

NOTES: UAH goaltender Carmine Guerriero was scratched for the first time. He suffered an injury in Friday’s game. … Sophomore James Block played his first official game for the Chargers. His only other action for UAH was in exhibition games against Alabama earlier this season and against the USA Under-18 Development Team last season.

A promising season has officially hit rock bottom.

The Chargers lost 5-2 to Colorado College at the Von Braun Center on Friday night, extending their winless streak to 11 games. They lost to a team that had lost its first 13 games of the season. They allowed five goals to a team that came in 58th of 60 Division I teams in scoring offense. They scored two goals on a team that came in 59th in scoring defense.

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After a 3-2-1 start, UAH is now 3-12-2. Colorado College improved to 4-15-0.

The Tigers scored first on Hunter Fejes’ goal at 11:00 of the 1st. UAH tied the game on Adam Wilcox’s shorthanded breakaway goal just 1:34 later, his second goal of the season.

The game fell apart for the Chargers late in the second, when Colorado College scored two goals in a span of 44 seconds to take a 3-1 lead. Matt Hansen and Fejes were the scorers.

The Tigers continued to pull away early in the third with two more goals. Luc Gerdes made it 4-1 at 3:12, and Sam Rothstein made it 5-1 at 5:13.

UAH goaltender Carmine Guerriero, who stopped 27 of 32 shots, left the game after being hurt on CC’s last goal. Matt Larose came in to finish the final 14:47, saving both shots he faced.

With 6:23 to go, CC’s Trey Bradley cross-checked Kurt Gosselin in the head, knocking Gosselin momentarily unconscious. Bradley received a five-minute major and a game disqualification, banning him from Saturday’s game.

Chad Brears added a goal with 3:16 left in the game for the final 5-2 score. It was his seventh goal of the season. Brennan Saulnier and Max McHugh got the assists.

Game two of the series is Saturday night at 7 at Von Braun Center.

Minnesota State showed why they are the class of the WCHA and the long way the Chargers have to go to reach their level.

The Mavericks scored three unanswered goals in the second period and rode another large shots advantage to beat UAH 4-1 in Mankato on Saturday night. MSU finished the two-game sweep while outshooting the Chargers 41-15.

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UAH (3-11-2, 2-10-2) saw its winless streak extended to 10 games. Minnesota State (10-6-4 overall, 9-1-4 WCHA) maintained a three-point lead over Michigan Tech atop the conference standings.

The first period on Saturday was almost a carbon copy of the first period on Friday. Minnesota State had more than double the shots on goal as UAH (this time 12-5), but it was the Chargers again with the 1-0 lead.

Jetlan Houcher scored his fourth goal of the season, firing the puck from the left circle past MSU goaltender Jason Pawloski at the 8:13 mark. Matt Salhany got the primary assist, his third of the season, with his feeding pass from the slot. Adam Wilcox also got his third assist.

In the second, the Mavericks asserted the dominance they have enjoyed over the Chargers over the past three seasons. They had 14 shots on goal before UAH got their first, getting 21 in all, and scored three unanswered goals.

Michael Huntebrinker, who got the equalizer for MSU on Friday, got the tying goal again at the 4:12 mark, assisted on a nice centering pass from Casey Nelson.

The Mavericks took the lead on a costly UAH mistake. A turnover in the offensive zone led to an MSU 3-on-1, and CJ Franklin finished with a one-timer at 9:57. Jaden Schmeisser got the assist.

MSU made it 3-1 as Schmeisser, a sophomore defenseman, fired the puck through traffic and past Charger goaltender Carmine Guerriero at 13:05.

UAH had a couple of chances late in the period as Minnesota State laxed a little on defense, but Jason Pawloski kept the Chargers off the board.

The Chargers could not do much in the third period, and MSU finished the scoring with a Huntebrinker empty-net goal with 1:42 left in the contest.

Guerriero, who started in net for UAH for the third straight game, made a season-high 37 saves in what has become typical of a UAH-Minnesota State game. The Mavericks outshot the Chargers 73-24 in the series as they are now 8-0-0 against UAH since both have been in the WCHA.

One bright spot for the series was the penalty kill for UAH. The Chargers killed all three Minnesota State power plays Saturday, extending their streak to 21 straight kills over the last six games.

UAH finishes the 2015 portion of the schedule next weekend back home at the Von Braun Center. The Chargers host Colorado College of the NCHC on Dec. 11 and 12.

The Chargers mustered only nine shots on goal, and allowed two third-period scores to lose 2-1 at No. 20 Minnesota State in Mankato on Friday.

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UAH (3-10-2 overall, 2-9-2 WCHA) saw its winless streak extended to nine games, while the WCHA-leading Mavericks (9-6-4 overall, 8-1-4 WCHA) are unbeaten in their last eight.

UAH lead 1-0 at 12:06 of the first period when Chad Brears tipped a Max McHugh shot from near the left point, beating Maverick goaltender Jason Pawloski. From that point on, the Chargers only had four shots on goal the rest of the game. Brennan Saulnier got the secondary assist.

Brears extended a point-scoring streak of five games. It was also his fourth goal in five games, giving the senior a total of six on the season.

MSU had many chances to tie the game partially thanks to three power plays in the first period. The Mavericks’ best chance game when UAH goaltender Carmine Guerriero stopped a Max Coatta shot, and Brett Knowles’s rebound attempt bounced over Guerriero’s shoulder and on top of the net.

The goaltenders Guerriero and Pawloski did not see many pucks in the second period.

Despite four power plays in the period, including 1:11 of two-man advantage after Saulnier went flying on being kneed by C.J. Franklin, the Chargers only mustered two shots on goal. UAH was 0-for-6 on the power play.

The Mavericks weren’t much better, only getting seven shots on goal in the second period. Minnesota State dominated the third period, however, to take control and win the game. Michael Huntebrinker skated right down the middle and beat Guerriero at the 1:06 mark to tie the game.

Then with 3:40 left, right after UAH killed a Maverick power play, a turnover leads to an odd-man rush for MSU. Franklin sent the puck ahead to Blueger, who beat Guerriero for an MSU 2-1 lead.

It was a downer for the Chargers to allow the winning goal right after they went 6-for-6 on the penalty kill in the game. Over the last five games, UAH has killed 18 straight penalties.

The Mavericks outshot the Chargers 13-1 in the third period, leading to a 32-9 advantage for the game.

Guerriero finished with 30 saves. Pawloski needed to make only eight.

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

The bright side is that the losing streak is over, albeit barely. However, it still feels like points were left on the table for the Chargers.

Frank Misuraca‘s goal early in the third period equalized the game, and Carmine Guerriero and the Chargers held on for a 1-1 tie Saturday night at the Von Braun Center. The draw ended a seven-game losing streak for UAH (3-9-2 overall, 2-8-2 WCHA).

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Northern Michigan (5-5-6 overall, 4-4-4 WCHA), which has already played in seven overtime games this season, dominated puck possession in the final half of the game, so it was rather fortunate that UAH salvaged a point after losing Friday’s game in heartbreaking fashion. NMU outshot UAH 37-29, including a 15-3 advantage in the third period.

It was quite the opposite of what the Chargers did Friday, when they had the most shots on goal since 2009 with 47.

However, UAH started the game following Friday’s plan: Peppering NMU goaltender Atte Tolvanen. The Chargers fired away and got 13 on net — but no goals. Tolvanen made particularly good saves on Madison Dunn and Hans Gorowsky after a couple of centering attempts late in the period.

The Wildcats got nine of their own, but Guerriero was up to the task. He stopped an open Darren Nowick with under a minute to go to keep the game scoreless after one.

UAH had one scary moment with 5:59 left in the first, when Huntsville native Josh Kestner was knocked down near the head as he tried to get a stick on a rebound in front of the NMU net. He was able to skate off in his own power, but would be back in the game.

The second period was the first frame of the whole series that Northern Michigan had real control, and it started when the Wildcats got on the board first. John Siemer, on the right wing of a 2-on-1, fired and beat Guerriero on his glove side at 4:08.

After that, NMU saw the most puck possession of any period in the series, and the visiting NMU fans shared in their team’s energy. The Wildcats outshot the Chargers 12-10 in the second period.

Meanwhile, the closest UAH came to tying the game was Dunn’s rebound shot going wide as Tolvanen went down.

The Charger goal occurred at 2:00 of the third, when in a sort of role reversal, defenseman Misuraca received a pass from right wing Chad Brears, and directed the puck past Tolvanen to tie the game. It was Misuraca’s first goal of the season, and Brears’s sixth assist.

Despite that, the Wildcats continued their groove in the third period, capitalizing on UAH turnovers and continuing to test Guerriero. Unlike Friday, NMU could not convert those turnovers into goals as Guerriero — who finished with 36 saves in a performance reminiscent of last season — made timely saves with the pad and proper covers with the glove.

In particular, NMU had a 2-on-1 on a UAH turnover with 8:45 left in regulation, but Guerriero was able to get a pad on Filip Starzynski’s shot from the slot.

UAH held on to force overtime, where they had three shots to NMU’s one but still needed defensive support. Cody Champagne had one of his four blocks (and UAH’s 18 total blocks) during the extra session.

The Wildcats had one last chance as Siemer had a breakaway, but he couldn’t convert as the final buzzer sounded.

The Chargers’ next action is next weekend at defending WCHA champion and current league leader Minnesota State. UAH returns home on Dec. 18 and 19 to face NCHC opponent Colorado College.