Dutchmen Rally for Win at Dartmouth
HANOVER, NH -- Five unanswered goals led to a
5-4 Union College men's ice hockey victory at Dartmouth on Friday
night at Thompson Arena. With the win 16th-ranked Union (16-7-6)
remains in a tie for first place in ECAC Hockey with a 10-3-4
record, while Dartmouth (6-17-1) goes to 4-12-1 in the league.
Freshman Kyle
Bodie completed the comeback for Union with only 2:45 remaining
in the game. Union erased a 4-0 first period deficit with three
goals in the second and two in the third. Bodie's goal, his the
third of this career, came after junior Adam
Presizniuk's shot sailed high off the glass and bounced on the
doorstep for the freshman.
The Big Green jumped out on the Dutchmen registering four goals
within a 6:33 span, giving them a 4-0 lead 7:20 into the game.
Sophomore Doug Jones started the scoring on the power-play 53
seconds into the contest and classmate Paul Lee followed at
5:37.
Junior Scott Flemming made it 3-0 with another man-up goal at 6:07
and junior Andrew Owsiak capped the scoring in at 7:20.
Union relied on its power-play, which entered the game ranked 11th
in the country, to mount a comeback in the second period. Freshman
Jeremy
Welsh cleaned up a rebound to make it 4-1 at 6:04.
After freshman Shawn
Stuart made it 4-2 with a shot from the point at 16:23, senior
Jason
Walters went top shelf, making it 4-3 at 19:23 of the
third.
The Dutchmen's power-play went to work with just 10 minutes
remaining in regulation and Walters nearly tied it up with less
than seven seconds remaining on the man advantage. Senior Mike
Schreiber sent a pass across the blueline for a Walters'
one-time rifle that struck the crossbar.
Moments later junior Corey
Milan, who entered the game in relief in the first period,
flashed some leather and allow sophomore Luke
Cain to tip home a tying goal with 6:13 remaining. Schreiber
threw a puck towards the net from the right wing and Cain deflected
in his fifth goal of the season.
Freshman Greg
Coburn and junior John
Simpson earned assists on the Dutchmen's first goal, while
freshman Wayne
Simpson and junior Andrew
Buote, who assisted on Bodie's goal, added helpers on the
second tally. Senior Mario
Valery-Trabucco moved two points of tying Union's single-season
point record with an assist on Walters' goal. Presinziuk picked up
the second assist.
The goal was the 41st of Walters career and more notably his 109
career point. He is creeping up on Jordan Webb's all-time record
for career points by a Dutchmen of 114 from 2001-05.
The Dutchmen complete the road trip on Saturday, Feb. 13 with a 7
p.m. contest at Harvard.












