Miami's Jones and Davis Earn All-CCHA Honors
3/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Hockey
March 7, 2007
OXFORD, Ohio -- After leading the Miami RedHawks to a third-place finish in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, junior Nathan Davis and Ryan Jones have earned all-league second team honors, marking the second consecutive year that both players have landed on the all-league squad. Additionally, sophomores Alec Martinez and Jeff Zatkoff were named as honorable mentions to the team.
Davis, who leads Miami with 48 points on 20 goals and 28 assists, was a first-team pick last year, while Jones earned second-team plaudits for the second year in a row after registering 44 points on a team-best 27 goals and 17 assists.
Ranked fourth in the CCHA in overall scoring, Davis set a career high with 48 points, including a team-best 28 assists. A first-team all-league pick last year, his 20 goals, which tie his previous career high, rank him seventh in the league, while his assist total ties him for fourth. Davis has been dominant in Miami's victories this season as he has at least one point in 19 of his team's 23 wins and has multiple points in 13 of those triumphs.
He leads the team with 15 multi-point outings, including a career-best five-point effort in a win over Northern Michigan on Nov. 3. Among his other multi-point efforts was a three-goal performance that included a pair of shorthanded tallies and helped Miami snap a 20-game losing streak at Michigan on Oct. 20. Earlier this season Davis became the 38th member of Miami's 100-Point Club and enters the playoffs with 113 career points in 113 games.
Miami's leading goal scorer with 27, Jones ranks second in the CCHA in that category and surpassed his previous career high of 22 from last season. A three-time CCHA Offensive Player of the Week, he has four game-winning goals this season, which tie him for fourth in the league, and is Miami's career leader with 13 through his first three campaigns in Red and White. His team-best nine power-play markers rank him fourth in the league and give him 19 for his career, which put him just two shy of cracking Miami's career top 10.
Serving as Miami's captain, Jones is known as one of the most versatile players in the CCHA and leads the RedHawks with a +17 rating, while being on Miami's top power-play and penalty-killing units. With 94 career points entering this weekend's playoff series with Lake Superior State, Jones is just six points shy of becoming the 40th player in Miami history to eclipse the 100-point plateau for his career.
Martinez led all Miami defensemen in scoring this season with 23 points on nine goals and 14 assists on his way to an honorable mention selection. Six of his goals were of the power-play variety, which rank him second on the team behind Jones. Also an honorable mention to the all-league teams, Zatkoff posted a 13-5-3 record during the regular season and boasts a 2.25 goals-against average entering the playoffs
The RedHawks host a second-round CCHA playoff series this weekend against Lake Superior State. The best-of-three game series is slated for March 9-11 at Steve Cady Arena. The first game of the series will faceoff at 7:35 p.m., while all subsequent games get underway at 7:05 p.m.
