The Iowa State Cyclone men’s hockey team continued to roll along in this 1998-99 season, winning games against Kent State and arch-rival Ohio University this past weekend.

The Cyclones, with an 8-game unbeaten streak, are now 19-2-1 overall after skating all over Kent 16-0 Friday and earning a hard-fought 4-4 tie with Ohio Saturday.

“The fans want to see good hockey before Christmas break, and we are giving them that,” ISU head coach Al Murdoch said.

Friday night, the Cyclones scored early and often, as forward Darcy Anderson began the scoring spree just over a minute into the game on the power play. The goal began as an end-to-end rush by the Cyclones and resulted in Kent goalie Steve Murawa being caught out of the net.

Twenty seconds later, the Cyclones scored again to make it 2-0 when Glenn Detulleo scored on a tap-in from a pass to the goal crease by Anthony Penner.

There wasn’t any scoring for the next four minutes, but the Cyclones showed spirit and hustle to beat Kent to every loose puck.

Forward Mike Ogbourne contributed the third Cyclone goal at 5:54 of the opening period in which Murawa gave up a rebound off a shot and Ogbourne snapped it home. Ten seconds later, Joe Fiebiger scored to make it 4-0. In 10 seconds, Fiebiger and Detulleo had two points each (Detulleo’s on assists; Fiebiger had a goal and an assist).

Kent goalie Mike Schlie came in after the Cyclones scored again a minute and a half later. An unassisted short-handed goal by Darren Anderson put ISU up 5-0, and the route was on.

ISU scored a final time in the first period as Jeff Richer scored a powerplay goal assisted by Jeremy Meyer and Mike Anderson at 10:08 to increase the lead to six.

The nightmare finally ended for KSU as six different ISU players scored. During the entire period, the Cyclones made crisp, tape-to-tape passes as ISU demonstrated good defense and a number of odd-man rushes against a somewhat injured KSU team.

“They were decimated by injury, and we took advantage of that,” Murdoch said.

The second period was similar to the first, only seven goals were scored. The second period was the “Darcy Anderson and Jeff Smith” period.

The two connected on a short-handed goal two minutes in as Smith scored on an Anderson assist. Five minutes later, Darren Anderson added a hard-earned goal, his second goal of the night, on assists from Smith and Darcy Anderson in front of the KSU net. The score ballooned to 8-0, and ISU had only scored half its total for the game.

At the 12-minute mark, Darcy Anderson added another assist on a wrap-around goal by forward Sean Strama. Two more goals in a three minute span increased the Cyclone lead to 11-0. Then, the Anderson brothers and Smith connected again as Darcy Anderson scored at 18:38 of the second on assists from Darren Anderson and Smith.

To round out the second period scoring, Mike Anderson added an unassisted goal with 45 seconds left to make it a 13-0 Cyclone lead. By this time, half the fans had left the building.

All in all, the second period yielded a four-point effort by Darcy Anderson and three by Smith. The offensive game for the Cyclones still proved dominating, but the defense was just as frustrating for KSU, as there was almost no opportunity for the team to score.

The third period could not live up to the standards of the first two periods, but goals were scored again. Five minutes into the third period, the Cyclones scored to make it a 14-0 lead as Jeff Smith bagged his second goal of the night on assists from defensemen Rob Rose and Greg Jones.

Eight minutes later, at the 13:08 mark, Darcy Anderson scored to make it 15-0 on assists from Smith and Rose. The final goal of the night was the hat-trick goal by Smith on assists from the Anderson brothers with just under two minutes left. That goal gave both Darcy Anderson and Smith six-point nights.

“I was just in the right place at the right time,” Smith said.

Smith said that ISU goalie Makris did a good job for the team and had his “head in the game” all night.

“We have a good line with Darren, Jeff and I,” Darcy Anderson said. “It’s a good combination that provides scoring. We have two scorers, and Jeff is the hard hitter and worker. He gives us the puck through his hard work and adds depth to the line.”

Anderson said that the defensive play was great, and it showed in the goals against. He said the Cyclones have four good lines on the team.

“We’ve reached a peak now,” Murdoch said. “We got a lot of scoring out of our new, young guys. We had Kent back on their heels for most of the night.”

Saturday night was a much lower-scoring game but just as exciting. Early play by both Ohio and ISU was choppy, and both teams had good chances, though not great in number.

ISU gave up the first goal of the game as OU forward Ryan Czech scored on the power play eight minutes into the opening period.

Three minutes later, the Bobcats tacked on another goal as Ryan Schelien scored an unassisted goal after ISU goalie Dan LaVoie was knocked down from behind, creating the open-net goal.

For most of the first period, the Bobcats clogged up the middle of the ice, and ISU was not able to use its speed to carry the puck into the offensive zone. The Cyclones had a good chance late in the period on a three-on-one, but the puck was shot wide. Both teams had few chances, but OU capitalized on its.

The comeback was on in the second period as the Cyclones received an early power play. With one second left on it, Mike Ogbourne scored an unassisted goal to cut the deficit to 2-1. The restless crowd came to life as the pace of play opened up with end-to-end action early on. Seven minutes into the period, the Cyclones tied the game as Darcy Anderson scored short-handed on a pass from the corner by his brother Darren. That goal changed the momentum as the Cyclones took the play to the Bobcats with hard hitting.

Five minutes after the Cyclones had tied it, the Bobcats scored to retake the lead when John Klever scored on a breakaway. ISU came back to tie it three minutes later as Mike Anderson set up Brian Paolello’s slap shot goal. Both teams were short a man during the goal. At 16:23 of the second, the Bobcats retook lead 4-3 as Jack Pepper scored on another breakaway.

ISU could never get the go-ahead goal in the second, but when the Cyclones scored the tying goal, the momentum switched to the Cyclones.

The third period was defensive-minded. It was much like the first, and OU became conservative with the lead. The Bobcat players sacrificed their bodies by blocking Cyclone shots from the blueline.

The play was chippy, as if both teams were running out of gas. There was no scoring until the 18:20 mark of the period when Rob Rose scored on a pass from Mike Anderson to the tie the game at four. The players on the ice jumped onto Rose’s back in celebration, and the unusually quiet crowd roared to life.

“It felt good to score that goal,” Rose said. “Mike screened the goalie for me, and I just let it go. I just figured you can’t score if you don’t put it on goal.”

There were not many chances in the five-minute overtime period. Although the Cyclones ended their winning streak at seven, they extended their unbeaten streak to eight (7-0-1).

“The third-period goal was big for us,” Murdoch said. “We had them hanging on for dear life in the third period.”

Murdoch said that OU was a well-coached team, and he didn’t want to see a tie because “ties are like kissing your sister. I hate them.”

Mike LaVoie, ISU’s goalie on Saturday, said the Bobcats capitalized on the chances they got in the first period.

“I felt relieved after we got the tying goal,” LaVoie said. “A goalie always feels blamed for a loss, but I have great confidence in my team, and I want to help them out.”