Colgate Drops League Game to Brown
HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/19/10) – The Colgate
men’s hockey team came up short in its fifth ECAC Hockey game
of the season with a 5-2 loss to Brown on Friday night at Starr
Rink.
The two teams scored five different ways in the game with Brown
earning two power play goals, a shorthanded goal and an empty
netter late in the third period. Colgate had an even strength goal
and an extra attacker score in the final frame.
Colgate (2-6-1, 0-4-1 ECAC) got goals from junior Matt Firman
(Fayetteville, N.Y.) and sophomore Robbie Bourdon (Montreal, Que.),
while junior goaltender Alex Evin (Castlegar, B.C.) mad 20 stops
between the pipes.
Brown (2-2-1, 1-1-1 ECAC) saw Jack Maclellan tally a goal and two
assists for three points, while Chris Zaires, Bobby Farnham and
Dennis Robertson posted two points with a goal and an assist
apiece. Jeff Buvinow had two assists in the win and Mike Clemente
made 28 saves in net to earn his first win of the season.
The Bears got on the board first with 10:28 remaining in the first
as Zaires knocked home his own rebound from the left circle to make
it 1-0 on a 5-on-3 power play. Colgate answered back in the second
period as Firman scored his first of the season with 11:28 left.
Senior Austin Mayer (Providence, R.I.) and junior Corbin McPherson
(Folsom, Calif.) had both of their shots blocked and Firman was
there for the rebound on McPherson’s and scored. Mayer and
McPherson were credited with the assists.
Brown scored again on a 5-on-3 advantage in the second period to
start a streak of three straight. Robertson scored from the top of
the right circle after passes from Maclelland and Buvinow on the
perimeter of the defense. After taking back the lead at 2-1, the
Bears scored their second shorthanded goal of the season, coming
from Booby Farnham. Colgate gave the puck away at the offensive
blueline. Maclelland was there to deflect the pass and drove down
the ice on a 2-on-1 break. He found a hustling Farnham in stride at
the top of the crease and he hit the net for the 3-1 lead.
David Brownschidle made it 4-1 with 4:24 left in the final frame.
Garnett Hathaway was behind the net and slid a pass through the
defense and onto Brownschidle’s stick and he beat Evin to
increase the lead.
The Raiders got one back with the extra attacker as coach Don
Vaughan pulled Evin at the 3:28 mark. Colgate answered 43 seconds
later as Bourdon added his third of the season to cut the lead to
4-2 with the assists to sophomore Jeremy Price (Milton, Ont.) and
senior Francois Brisebois (Montreal, Que.). The lead, however, was
too much to overcome as Maclelland tallied his third point with an
empty netter with 33 seconds left in the game with assists going to
Farnham and Zaires as the Bears closed out the game with a 5-2
defeat of the Raiders.
Colgate outshot Brown by a 30-25 margin, but went 0-for-5 on the
power play. The Bears capitalized on two 5-on-3 power plays and
ended the night 2-for-7 with the extra skater.
Fifth-ranked Yale is up next for the Raiders at 7 p.m. tomorrow
night at Starr Rink. The Bulldogs bring their undefeated league
record of 3-0-0 after beating Cornell by a 4-2 margin tonight at
the Big Red.
NOTES: The Raiders gave up their first shorthanded goal of the
season … Brown won for the only the fifth time in Hamilton
in the history of the series … the Raiders outshot their
opponents for the eight time in nine games … Bourdon is now
second on the team in goals with three … Brisebois tallied
his team-high sixth assist tonight and first since a three-assist
output at Lake Superior State.












