Sunday Wrap Up: Black Bears Heading Back to Blaine
The Black Bears celebrate their Game 5 victory. (Photos: James Harding)
Maine 2 @ Maryland 6 (Maryland Wins Series 3-2): For the second consecutive season, the Maryland Black Bears are heading to the Robertson Cup. After falling behind 2-0, Maryland rallied to score six unanswered goals as they dropped the Maine Nordiques 6-2 in Game 5 of the East Division Finals. JP Steele and Nick Ramm scored in the closing minutes of the first period to give Maine a two goal lead heading into the first intermission. But in the second it was all Black Bears as first Dimitry Kebreau converted on a turnover to get Maryland on the board. Then Riley Ruh scored off a face-off to tie the game at two. Kareem El Bashir then found the back of the net for his first of the postseason to give the Black Bears the lead after 40 minutes. In the final period, Maryland came out flying as they scored three times in the opening four minutes. First Jérémi Tremblay found the back of the net and then 23 seconds later it was El Bashir potting his second of the night. Then the run was capped off by Trayce Johnson as he got in on the action just two minutes later. Owen Lepak got the win in goal for the Black Bears while Carter Richardson was saddled with the loss for the Nordiques.
