John Carroll played a solid opening 45 minutes in Ada Saturday evening. It was the next five minutes -- the opening five of the second half -- that did the Blue Streaks in.
Two quick goals in the opening minutes of the second period were all the host Polar Bears needed, surviving massive pressure over the final 40 minutes to down the Blue Streaks, 2-1.
Eric Rozsits scored in the 65th minute off a feed from
Dalton Browsky in the 65th minute, but JCU could not find the equalizer.
ONU held the slight edge in shots (14-13) in improving to 9-3 overall and 1-0 in the Ohio Athletic Conference.
In dropping their league opener, the Blue Streaks fell to 5-3-1 and 0-1 in the OAC.