CANTON, Mich. – On the back of his 100th point in just 54 career games Bailey Byrd helped propel the University of Michigan-Dearborn (14-3-0, 11-3-0) men's ice hockey team to a 4-1 victory over the Concordia Cardinals (8-8-2, 5-8-1) on Saturday (Dec. 2). Byrd scored an unassisted goal and added an assist on an empty net goal to give the Wolverines the victory, and ending a three-game losing streak. 

After lackluster starts the past three games, the Wolverines needed to get on the scoresheet first. At 7:44, Ryan Stanley answered that request as the freshman blue-liner tallied his seventh goal of the season. Quest Bigelow and Chance Mathews tallied assists on the play. 

Carrying a 1-0 lead into the second period, Byrd recorded his 99th point on an unassisted goal 1:48 into the period. After a slashing minor, the Cardinals' special teams scored a power-play goal, sneaking their only goal of the game past Tanner Beals (7-1-0). The Wolverines would score once more before the second intermission after Brendan West scored an unassisted goal at 18:54. 

A quiet third period played in the Wolverines' favor as the Cardinals only recorded five shots in the final stanza. That goal came at 19:17 when the Cardinals elected to go for the extra skater and emptied their net. Byrd sent a stretch pass to the stick of Blake Petterle, who cleaned up the open net and put away the Cardinals and win the regular season series.