Saratoga Springs, N.Y. – The Skidmore College hockey team lost to the University of New England 5-3 in Friday night’s ECAC East matchup at the Saratoga City Rink. The Thoroughbreds fall to 7-12-1 overall and 6-7-1 in the league, while the Nor’easters improve to 2-17 overall and 1-13 league.
Freshman Brendan Cottam (Belmont, Mass./Lawrence Academy) got the scoring started early in the first for Skidmore, when he beat New England keeper Dallas Ungurian six seconds into the power play for his sixth goal of the season at the 2:44 mark.
After trailing 1-0 after the first, the Nor’easters came out strong in the second, tying it up on a power play goal of their own from Jake Moscatel at the 3:08 mark and took the lead when Jack Nolin found Justin Miner in front of the net and he beat Thoroughbred goalie John Bienkowski (Lexington, Mass./Hoosac School) at the 13:27 mark. New England got their third goal of the period from Scott McManaman at the 18:54 mark to take a 3-1 lead into the third period.
The Nor’easters made it 4-1 on a power play goal from Tyler Fleurent 3:16 in the period, but Skidmore got back into the game after a 4-on-3 power play goal from Nick Dupuis (Holyoke, Mass./Springfield Falcons) at 6:01 and a goal from Hunter Thayer (Shelburne, Vt./Green Mountain Glades) at 8:56 to get within one at 4-3. The Thoroughbreds outshot New England 22-5 in the final period but couldn’t find a way to tie it up as the Nor’easters put it away with an empty net goal from Moscatel at 19:38 in the final period.
Skidmore outshot New England 42-21. Bienkowski stopped 12 of 15 shots and Colin Bessey (Montclair, N.J./Trinity-Pawling) made three saves on four shots in relief for the Thoroughbreds. Ungurian stopped 39 of 42 shots for the Nor’easters.
Skidmore finished 2-of-6 on the power play and totaled 14 penalty minutes, while New England was 2-for-5 with the man-advantage and had 16 penalty minutes.
The Thoroughbreds return to action tomorrow, when they host Southern Maine at 4 p.m.
Hockey Game Box Score (Final)
U. New England vs Skidmore College (Feb 05, 2010 at Saratoga Springs, NY)
U. New England (2-17, 1-13 ECAC East) vs. Skidmore College (7-12-1, 6-7-1)
Date: Feb 05, 2010 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY Arena: Saratoga City Rink
Attendance:210 Start time:7 pm End time:9 pm Total time:2:00
Goals by Period 1 2 3 Tot
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U. New England...... 0 3 2 - 5
Skidmore College.... 1 0 2 - 3
1st period - 1, SKDM, Brendan Cottam (Zach Menard, Julian
Malakorn) 2:44 (pp). Penalties - Matt Denning, UNEM (hooking) 2:38;
Tyler Doremus, SKDM (boarding) 11:06; Tyler Doremus, SKDM (tripping)
13:35.
2nd period - 2, UNEM, Jake Moscatel (Kyle MacLennan, Russ Franey)
3:08 (pp). 3, UNEM, Justin Miner (Jack Nolin) 13:27. 4, UNEM, Scott
McManaman (Paul Kashmanian, Adam Laite) 18:54. Penalties - Zach
Menard, SKDM (contact to the head) 2:41; Brent Bourgeois, UNEM
(cross-checking) 9:41; Jack Nolin, UNEM (slashing) 11:13.
3rd period - 5, UNEM, Tyler Fleurent (Jack Nolin, Kyle MacLennan)
3:16 (pp). 6, SKDM, Nick Dupuis (Hunter Thayer, Alex Riccio) 6:01
(pp). 7, SKDM, Hunter Thayer (Tim Daley, Nick Dupuis) 8:56. 8, UNEM,
Jake Moscatel (Jonathan Grandinetti, Kody Collins) 19:38 (empty net).
Penalties - Jake Lewis, SKDM (holding the stick) 2:58; Zach Menard,
SKDM (cross-checking) 4:07; Zach Menard, SKDM (hit after whistle)
4:07; Adam Laite, UNEM (hit after whistle) 4:07; Russ Franey, UNEM
(hooking) 5:21; Paul Kashmanian, UNEM (obstruction-hooking) 5:34;
Jonathan Grandinetti, UNEM (hooking) 9:34; Brendan Cottam, SKDM
(holding) 9:34; Scott McManaman, UNEM (tripping) 9:56.
Shots on goal - UNEM 4-12-5 21; SKDM 10-10-22 42.
Power plays - UNEM 2 of 5; SKDM 2 of 6.
Penalties - UNEM 8 (16 min); SKDM 7 (14 min).
Goalies - UNEM, Dallas Ungurian 2-10 (60:00 minutes, 42 shots-39
saves); SKDM, Colin Bessey (18:55, 4-3) , John Bienkowski 1-2 (40:00,
16-13).
Penalty shots - None.
A-210 T-2:00
Three stars: 1. None 2. None 3. None
Referee:Mike St. Louis Linesman:Scott Spencer; Brian Schroeder
Win-Dallas Ungurian (2-10). Loss-John Bienkowski (1-2).