ALLENTOWN, Pa. — There will be no glorious repeat. There will be no ninth national championship.

Not this year.

The University of Denver hockey team, which went four consecutive postseason games — all wins — without allowing multiple goals, gave up a pair to Ohio State in the second period and three more in the third during Sunday night’s Midwest Regional championship game at the PPL Center.

And the second-seeded Pioneers suffered a season-ending 5-1 loss to the No. 1 Buckeyes.

Ohio State’s Dakota Joshua scored his 15th goal this season off an assist from Brendon Kearney with 16:13 left in the second period and Buckeyes senior Kevin Miller took a sharp pass from behind the net and slapped his shot past DU goalie Tanner Jaillet with 4:29 remaining in the period.

That was enough offense for Ohio State, though the Buckeyes poured it on in the third period.

Miller scored his second goal of the game and Max Joyaux and Mason Jobst contributed goals over the final 20 minutes. DU’s Tyson McLellan broke up the shutout on his goal with 8:39 remaining. Ian Mitchell and Troy Terry assisted.

Buckeyes sophomore Sean Romeo turned aside 31 shots to pick up the win in goal. Romeo was named the Midwest Regional’s most outstanding player.

Ohio State’s offensive outburst was quite impressive against a DU squad that failed to duplicate its spirited effort in Saturday night’s 5-1 semifinal win over Penn State.

Sunday’s loss ended the collegiate careers of four DU seniors, including Jaillet, who played in 135 games and posted 82 wins. Jaillet, who won the Mike Richter Award as the nation’s top goalie last year and is a finalist again this season, tied the school record for wins by a goalie with Saturday’s triumph. His 82nd matched the mark set by DU athletic director Ron Grahame (1970-73).

Offensively, the Pioneers figure to welcome back plenty of firepower next season. Sophomore Henrik Borgstrom led the team with 52 points (23-29) and entered the contest tied for fourth in the nation in scoring. Junior Troy Terry and Jarid Lukosevicius combined for 35 goals and 46 assists.

Big Ten power Ohio State advanced to play Minnesota Duluth in one of the two national semifinal games April 5 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn. The NCAA championship game is April 7.

Notre Dame will meet Michigan in the other semifinal.