Michigan State wins Bantam championship

The Bantam Michigan State Spartans came into the playoffs as the fourth place seed and walked away with the winners' trophy on Super Sunday.

In the finals, Michigan State beat St. Lawrence, 7-1.

Eight seconds in, Ryan Shaw (Eric Fiegel, Adam Bauerle) opened the scoring. Shaw then broke in on net and scored unassisted for a 2-1 lead.

In the second period, Michigan State kept the pressure on when Nick Carmichael (Shaw, Richie Hunter) scored a power-play goal.

Kevin Annese poked a loose puck into the net after Carmichael tipped an Eric Gossells' shot from the point.

Steve Teplitsky finished off a solo rush up the ice with a top shelf goal.

In the third period, the defense took over as Justin Bangert, Bobbie Graczyk and Greg Slawson broke up several rushes and strong back checking from Tyler Leo helped a lockdown defense.

Brandon Hess was stellar in goal, stopping two clean breakaways to protect the lead.

St. Lawrence' Kyle Zurak (Patrick Waldron) broke the shutout.

Shaw completed his hat trick with an unassisted goal. Megan Gramza (Carmichael) finished off the scoring with a wrist shot into the net from the left point.

In the semifinals, Michigan State beat Wisconsin, 4-1.

Michigan took a 2-0 lead on goals by Richie Schwartz (Wes Harvin, Mike Herr) and Shaw (Fiegel).

Wisconsin got on the board when Lucas Sokolowski put in a rebound of a Brandon Ketterman shot from the point.

Michigan State responded less than a minute later when Teplitsky took a Slawson pass and walked in and scored for a 3-1 lead.

Both teams exchanged chances but Michigan State's Hess and Wisconsin's Paul Roy shut them down through out the scoreless second period.

In the third period, Shaw (Bauerle) scored to seal the win.