After coming from behind in the final minutes for a dramatic 3-2 victory on Saturday night, Cyclone Hockey dropped the final game of its series against No. 5 Ohio, 6-1, on Sunday afternoon.

The only goal the Cyclones could muster came from red-hot sophomore Bill Adolph, who picked up a rebound and took it top-shelf with 3:19 left in the third period.

The No. 6 Cyclones (15-6-1) found themselves on the plus side of numerous power plays in the game but never managed to execute their one-man advantage despite getting several shots on goal.

“They have a very good penalty kill system, and I still thought we executed our power play very well,” said coach Al Murdoch. “But the puck bounced their way a few times, and we just hit a lot of posts instead of the back of the net.”

Although the score suggests a pounding by the Bobcats (15-5-1), the Cyclones were outshot by just one (31-30) and didn’t catch a break all game.

“Their goalie got every bounce in the world today,” Adolph said. “We made a lot of real quality shots, and sometimes it looked like he didn’t even know where the puck was. It would just hit him somewhere and bounce off toward the boards, and that killed us a lot.”

In addition to his goal in game two, Adolph scored in the first period of the Cyclones’ Saturday night victory in front of a packed house on Red Out Night at the Ames/ISU Ice Arena. The weekend saw Adolph run his season goal total to five, four of which came in the last two weekends, earning him last week’s Cyclone Hockey Player of the Week honors.

Freshman goaltender Christian Johansson got the win Saturday after another solid night in the net for the Cyclones, giving up just two goals against the most efficient offense in the Central States Collegiate Hockey League.

Saturday’s thriller was knotted at one at the start of the third period, before Ohio’s Jim Fuhs slipped the puck past Johansson with 5:08 left to play, letting the air out of the enthusiastic, scarlet-clad Cyclone crowd.

But Ohio’s lead lasted only two minutes; the Cyclones netted a pair of goals in the final four minutes of the contest to send them to their third conference victory of the season.

“After we went down 2-1, we pulled together and told ourselves that we weren’t going to lose the game,” Adolph said. “Once we got buzzing, we started getting some good bounces, and after that first goal, we all knew we were going to win because we had all of the momentum.”

Senior Jason Brown notched the first of the two goals, for his seventh of the season, to even the score at two, giving the Cyclones an extra boost with just over three minutes to play.

An excited, anxious atmosphere filled the arena, and it erupted as freshman Brad Krueger slapped the game-winner past Ohio goalie Chris Carlson with just 1:26 remaining.

“We had a tremendous crowd on Saturday. There were fans hanging from the rafters,” Murdoch said. “It really made a difference. That was probably the strongest team we’ve played this year, and it was great to take a game from them in front of our fans.”