MACHA Awards Nominations

We are in a busy and exciting part of the season as the MACHA Playoffs are near and the ACHA are heading towards final rankings.  In adding to the excitement, it is time to make your nominations for the MACHA LEAGUE AWARDS. We have awards for the top players from each division, Silver and Gold, and we have MVP type awards for the top: offensive player, defensive player, goaltender, and coach "...  Of The Year".

Please review the attachment carefully and respond by the deadline which is in three weeks, February 20th.  No further nominations will be accepted after that date.

MACHA Award Nominations Form 2012

Silver Playoffs, Silver South Standings

The Silver Division Playoffs will return to The Owens Center in Peoria, Illinois.  The playoffs will begin Friday, February 10th and conclude Sunday February 12th.  The ACHA D3 Regionals will occur the following week.  The structure of the Silver playoffs will change.  With two Conferences within the Silver Division, the top four teams from the Northern Conference and the top four teams from the Southern Conference will make the playoffs.  There will be no bye.  Friday will see Quarter-Final action, Saturday the Semi-Finals, and Sunday the Championship Game.  The pairings will look like this:

Quaterfinals Friday
Game One   --  N1 vs S4  11am
Game Two  --  N3 vs S2   1:45pm

Game Three  --  N2 vs S3   4:30pm
Game Four   --   N4 vs S1   7:15pm

Semi-Finals Saturday
Game Five  --   Game One winner vs. Game Two winner  3:45pm
Game Six  --    Game Three winner vs. Game Four winner   6:30pm

Finals Sunday 
Game Seven  --  Game Five Winner vs. Game Six Winner   1:00 pm

Silver South Standings will be decided by Winning Percentage rather than points, with teams playing a varied amount of games due to RMU-Springfield and Western Illinois dropping out. Standings are updated on the Standings page of the website.

MACHA at the Break

 December 17, 2011 - The MACHA has become one of the strongest conferences with the wealth of talent in both Gold and Silver, with many teams being ranked going into the Holiday Break. Even more, Playoff races are heating up, as SIUe has taken a slight edge holding the tiebreaker over a white hot Iowa club, winning its last 8 Gold Conference Games. Mizzou has emerged as a top power as well, turning a dismal 2010-11 season into a contender in 2011-12, vying for a top spot in the MACHA and alongside Missouri State and ISU, will be a player for a top 10 spot in the ACHA Central Region at we near season's end. D2 Rankings #3 should come out near Christmas.

In Silver, Marquette and RMU-Peoria are the only clubs without losses thus far, Marquette leading the North with 28 points and has one series left, against #2 Wisconsin-Platteville. Bradley currently leads the South with 20 points, but RMU-Peoria is hot on their heels with 6 games in hand, and has 3 series remaining against teams currently out of the playoff picture.

RMU-Peoria is also gunning for an Autobid to Regionals in the D3 North fairing admirably against some of the top programs at the D3 level in a showcase prior to break. 4 North teams are competing for the final 2 spots for playoffs as Iowa and Iowa State, both in playoff contention are only separated by 1 point. Northwestern and NIU are on the doorstep, but will need help as Iowa State has 4 games in hand on Iowa, Northwestern, and NIU.

Important MACHA Schedule Details!

July 31, 2011 - With teams putting the final touches on their schedules, please download the linked excel spreadsheet and send your team(s) schedule to Casey Kicielinski at ducksfan35@hotmail.com, to put together a final season schedule. Please use the date format provided in the spreadsheet, to make sorting 900 games simple to put in date order.

Download MACHA Schedule Template (.xls)

2011-12 MACHA Playoff Schedule

From Board of Directors on March 28th, 2011:

MACHA announced today that the playoffs for the coming season will see some changes.  The MACHA Gold Division Playoffs will be hosted by Ice Valley Centre in Kankakee, Illinois on February 17, 18, 19.  The ACHA D2 Regionals will occur the following week.  The structure for the Gold Division Playoffs remains unchanged.  The teams finishing 1st and 2nd in the regular season will earn a bye in the first round on Friday night.  On the 17th the 3rd seed will play the 6th seed at 6:00 PM and the 4th seed will play the 5th seed at 8:30 PM.  Saturday will see the 2nd seed play the highest seeded winner from Friday games at 6:00 PM and then the 1st seed will take on the lowest winning seed from Friday at 8:30 PM.  The Gold Division Championship Game will be Sunday at 1:00 PM.

The Silver Division Playoffs will return to The Owens Center in Peoria, Illinois.  The playoffs will begin Friday, February 10th and conclude Sunday February 12th.  The ACHA D3 Regionals will occur the following week.  The structure of the Silver playoffs will change.  With two Conferences within the Silver Division, the top four teams from the Northern Conference and the top four teams from the Southern Conference will make the playoffs.  There will be no bye.  Friday will see Quarter-Final action, Saturday the Semi-Finals, and Sunday the Championship Game.  The pairings will look like this:

Quaterfinals Friday
Game One   --  N1 vs S4
Game Two  --  N3 vs S2

Game Three  --  N2 vs S3
Game Four   --   N4 vs S1

Semi-Finals Saturday
Game Five  --   Game One winner vs. Game Two winner
Game Six  --    Game Three winner vs. Game Four winner

Finals Sunday
Game Seven  --  Game Five Winner vs. Game Six Winner

2011 Board Meeting Notes

The MACHA would like to welcome the following teams to the MACHA Silver Division:

University Wisconsin - Platteville (D2)
Robert Morris - Black (D3)
Northern Illinois Univeristy D3
Iowa State University D3

Bradley University is intending on moving to Division 3 for next season, both RMU-Springfield and RMU-Peoria are moving to D3 as well.

With the 4 new teams moving into the MACHA Silver there has been a re-alignment of the Silver South and Silver North and is as follows:

The MACHA Tournament will be at the Owens Center in Peoria, IL, with dates to be finalized in the coming week.

2011 MACHA Awards

The following awards were handed out at the MACHA Board Meeting on Saturday March 5th at the Markin Center in Peoria, IL

MACHA Tie-Breakers:

Tie Breakers are in as follows in this order:

1. Wins
2. Head to Head Record
3. Goal Differential (Head to Head)
4. Least PIMS (Head to Head)
5. Least Goals Allowed (Conference Play)
6. Most Goals Scored (Conference Play)
7. Least PIMS (Conference Play)
8. Coin Toss