Player of the Week a Celebration of BRHC Talent

     While we know it’s not true, a casual observer of collegiate club hockey might conclude – if his primary source for news was HockeyYall.com -- that most of the South’s best performers are in the Blue Ridge Hockey Conference. This week, all of them are. With the BRHC clubs playing more games last weekend than teams in either the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League or the South Eastern Collegiate Hockey Conference, and with none of the independent clubs’ submitting a nomination, all of this week’s contenders for Player of the Week are from one conference, the BRHC.
     The Player of the Week is Curt Omlie of Appalachian State, one of the hottest teams in the ACHA South Region heading into the semester break. Omlie scored a goal and assisted on four others in the Mountaineers’ 6-4 road win over Georgia on Friday night. That victory was the ninth in 10 games for App State. The other nominees were:
     Eric Perlowitz, Salisbury. Having set the team record for points in a season as a freshman, Perlowitz is at it again as a sophomore. His three goals and four assists in Salisbury’s split of a two-game series with North Carolina-Wilmington, including a hat trick and an assist in his team’s come-from-behind 6-2 win on Saturday, raised his season totals to 15 goals, 16 assists and 31 points, just four points shy of his record points total.
     Matt O’Leary, Loyola. O’Leary had just three points as Loyola won twice and lost once in the Penn State-Brandywine Showcase, but his two goals were huge for the Greyhounds. Against Neumann College after an opening game loss to Penn State-Brandywine, O’Leary scored a shorthanded goal to tie the game at 2-2 and set up an insurance goal in the Greyhounds’ 5-3 win. The next day his goal in the final half-minute of the second period tied Loyola with Albany at 2-2 and the Greyhounds went on to win 3-2.
     Andrew Appleby and Mike Tansey, Old Dominion. Linemates Appleby and Tansey combined for seven points and accounted for all but one of the Monarchs’ goals in an 8-5 loss to East Carolina on Saturday. Appleby tallied twice and set up two other goals. Tansey, the team’s leading scorer with 26 points, scored twice and assisted on another.