The Ohio State men’s hockey team split two games with their rival team up north.The Buckeyes won an overtime thriller, 5-4, on Sunday against Bowling Green State University, after having a two-goal lead in the third period. Sophomore Pete Broccoli scored the game-winning goal. Broccoli’s goal, the first official goal of his college career, was assisted by R.J. Umberger. The Buckeyes controlled the ice both evenings, but still had trouble sealing the wins, due to penalties and great saves from the Falcons’ goalie, Tyler Masters.”We had momentum and we lost it,” said OSU coach John Markell, “We played about 13 minutes of the last 25 short-handed. I think the outcome was good. We had the game in hand and all the sudden the penalties started flying around. We started rotating basically six guys through and it’s hard to play that way.”OSU dented the scoreboard first with a power play goal at 7:53 in the first period. Co-captian and CCHA offensive player of the week, Jean-Francois Dufour scored with an assist from Mike McCormick.The Falcons tied the score with an unassisted goal at 12:04 by Marc Barlow. During the second period, Greg Day scored a power play goal at 7:13, but OSU aswered directly back just 51 seconds later. R.J. Umberger scored his fourth goal of the season, assisted by Andre Signoretti.Betz made an outstanding save with 6:30 left in the second period. He jumped to the right onto the ice to stop the puck from going into the net. Betz seemed to play sharper after this save.Dufour scored his second goal of the game and sixth of the season at 3:08 in the third period, when he took an assist by Paul Caponigri and crossed the puck right across the goal to give the Buckeyes a 3-2 lead. Sophomore Miguel Lafleche tallied his first goal of the season at 11:17 in the third. Lafleche converted on a breakaway, beating the Falcon goaltender on the left side. The Buckeyes seemed to be in control with less than nine minutes on the clock and a two-goal lead.On a power play surge, Ryan Murphy of Bowling Green put the puck past Betz at 16:22. Then, as a swarm of Falcons surrounded the OSU goal, Bowling Green took a close shot on the right side of the goal, which was blocked by Betz. Immediately, Ryan Fultz steered the puck around the back of the goal to slide the puck into far left corner of the goal, sending the game into overtime.Bowling Green won Saturday’s match-up 5-2. Buckeye goals were scored by Dave Steckel and Caponigri.