THIS WEEK
The Western Michigan hockey team heads up the road to take on rival Ferris State on Saturday at 7 p.m. The game can be streamed live on FloHockey.tv. The Bronco Media Network will have the radio call live on Jack 106.5 FM.
 
LAST WEEK
WMU went on the road and split with Alaska-Anchorage, falling in Saturday's season-opener 3-1 before rebounding for a 4-1 win on Sunday.
 
On Saturday the Seawolves took a 1-0 lead with a goal at 13:37 in the first period, but Jamie Rome responded on the power play less than a minute later to tie it up. UAA took a 2-1 lead in the second period during a 5-on-3 power play and then added to the lead just 1:41 into the third period.
 
On Sunday the Broncos struck first with another power play goal, this time Jason Polin putting it in the net at 5:53 in the second period. Anchorage responded with a power play goal of its own to send the game into the third period tied up at 1-1. WMU scored three unanswered in the third period to pick up its first win of the season. The first came by sophomore Dylan Wendt at 5:37, getting set up by Hugh Larkin and Jack Perbix. Minutes later Tim Washe finished off a feed from Oliver MacDonald to push the lead to 3-1. Wendt returned the favor to Larkin on a two-on-one rush, with the junior forward tallying his first goal of the season.
 
LOTS OF FIRSTS
Transfers Carter Berger, Oliver MacDonald and Perbix picked up their first points as Broncos in the series up in Alaska. Berger assisted on WMU's lone goal in Saturday's game and then assisted again on the power play in the team's opening goal in Sunday's win. MacDonald and Perbix both set up goals in Sunday's win. Redshirt freshman Kirk Laursen made 10 saves in his first collegiate start in goal to earn the win. Freshman Ryan McAllister also had an assist in each of the games to get his career point total off to a strong start.
 
Also making Bronco debuts were senior transfer Zak Galambos, junior transfer Cameron Rowe and freshman Ethan Wolthers.
 
+25
Western Michigan had a +25 shot advantage in the series against Alaska-Anchorage. In the season-opener the Broncos outshot the Seawolves 22-11 and followed it up with a 35-11 advantage on Sunday.
 
THE FERRIS STATE BULLDOGS
THE SERIES: After sweeping Ferris State in a home-and-home series, the Broncos hold an 85-52-13 lead in the all-time series. WMU has won the last six meetings between the two teams. '
 
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS: Ferris State opened the season at Miami last week, going 0-1-1. The Bulldogs and RedHawks battled to a 2-2 tie on Saturday before falling 4-1 the following night. FSU plays Michigan Tech on Friday night before the Broncos come to town.
 
Jacob Dirks, Jason Brancheau and Stepan Pokorny all lit the lamp last weekend for FSU. Junior Logan Stein made 33 saves in the draw with Miami, while sophomore Noah Giesbrecht started in Sunday's loss, making 23 saves.
 
ON THE HORIZON
Western Michigan welcomes Bowling Green on Thursday for its regular-season home-opener at 7 p.m., before heading to BGSU on Friday. Tickets are available at www.wmubroncos.com/tickets. Thursday's game will also be streamed live on NCHC.tv, with Friday's on FloHockey.tv