Drewiske Sends Saints Past Brown
CANTON, N.Y. -- Sophomore forward Jacob Drewiske had his second
two-goal game of the season leading St. Lawrence University to a
5-2 Eastern College Athletic Conference Division I men's hockey win
over Brown University at Appleton Arena Friday night.
Drewiske, who scored his first two collegiate goals in a win at
Clarkson earlier in the year, doubled his career output, putting
the Saints up 3-1 on a no-look backhand in the second period and
adding a shorthanded goal at 8:33 of the third to complete the
scoring.
St. Lawrence improves to 12-8-4 overall and 6-3-2 in the ECAC and
is 4-1-2 since January 1. Brown dropped its fifth in a row and is
now 1-8-1 in road games this season.
The Saints wasted little time in getting on the board as Brandon
Bollig forced a Brown turnover along the side boards in the Brown
end and center Travis Vermeulen fed senior wing Alex Curran who
snapped his sixth of the season under the crossbar just 1:29 into
the game. Brown goalie Dan Rosen, making his first start since
November after missing two months due to injury, came up with
several big saves later in the first period including a breakaway
stop on Jeremiah Cunningham just over four minutes into the
game.
Brown came back to tie the game with 1:30 left in the period as
Sean McMonagle's shot along the ice from the center slot slipped
past Saint goalie Kain Tisi. The Bears had 8:11 of power play time
in the first period, but managed just five shots on goal.
"We know that you always have to earn everything you get when you
play Brown," said Saint coach Joe Marsh. "They have given us fits
over the years, but I thought we handled things pretty well tonight
and got some big plays to put it away. The one disappointing part
is losing Pete Child to a knee injury in the second period. He has
been playing great hockey for us and it looks like he is going to
be out for a while."
Freshman defenseman George Hughes put the Saints back in front
with his third of the year on a power play 6:06 into the second
period, taking a point-to-point pass from defensive partner Pete
Child before rifling a shot over Rosen's glove and Drewiske scored
his third of the year with a no-look backhand from the left faceoff
circle which caught the upper corner off a pass from Rick Carden at
14:07.
Brown refused to go away, however, and junior Harry Zolnierczyk
made it a 3-2 game with his eighth of the year from right in front
of Tisi off Devin Timberlake's pass at 18:08.
Freshman Defenseman Jordan Dewey scored his first collegiate goal
on a rocket which snuck just under the cross bar at 2:06 of the
third to make it a 4-2 game and Carden made a great play, rushing
the puck into the Brown zone with the Saints down a man and sliding
the puck to Drewiske from his knees for Drewiske's second of the
night with the Saints a man down to wrap it up at 8:33.
Tisi made 30 saves for the Saints in his eighth consecutive start
while Rosen gave up five goals on 34 shots before giving way to
Mike Clemente who had five saves in 8:59 of action.












