DULUTH, Minn. – The third-ranked Western Michigan hockey team erased two two-goal deficits but fell short on the road to Minnesota Duluth, 5-4, at AMSOIL Arena on Friday night.
 
Ethen Frank, Max Sasson, Drew Worrad and Jason Polin all tallied goals on the night, with Ronnie Attard recording two assists. Worrad and Polin also had assists for two-point nights. The Broncos (16-6-0, 8-5-0 NCHC) finished 2-for-5 on the power play and held UMD scoreless on three.
 
After surrendering goals at 14 seconds and 12:53 of the first period, Western Michigan stormed back to tie it up at 2-2 before the intermission. Frank tallied on the power play from the left circle to cut the lead in half at 14:33. Just 1:03 later Sasson scored on a rebound on a shot by Ty Glover to tie it up at 2-2. The goal pushed Sasson's career-long point streak to four games.
 
The Bulldogs retook the lead in the second period with goals by Blake Biondi at 4:41 and Jesse Jaques at 17:14 to send WMU to the locker room down 4-2.
 
Worrad gave the Broncos some momentum, banging home a rebound on a shot by Ronnie Attard just 12 seconds into the third period, cutting the lead to 4-3.
 
Polin tied the game up at 4:17 with a power play goal from just in front of the net. Josh Passolt and Attard both picked up assists on Polin's seventh goal of the season.
 
Hunter Lellig gave the lead back to Minnesota-Duluth for the third time of the night at 8:43.
 
The Broncos had a late power play and then pulled Brandon Bussi from the net for the extra attacker but UMD was able to fend them off.
 
The two teams meet for the final time of the regular season on Saturday night at 8:07 p.m. The game can be watched live on NCHC.tv and heard live on the Bronco Radio Network.