Big Red Bettered by Brown
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Jordan Kary had a goal and an assist, but the
Cornell men's hockey team dropped a 3-2 contest to Brown on
Saturday night at Lynah Rink. Joe Devin also scored for Cornell in
the loss as the Big Red slips to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in ECAC Hockey
action. Brown improved to 3-2-1 overall and 2-1-1 in league play
with the victory.
Braden Birch, Mike Devin and Kirill Gotovets each added an assist
for the Big Red on the night, while freshman goaltender Andy Iles
made 16 saves in the loss. Cornell finished the night 1-for-5 on
the power play, while killing off all three of Brown's
man-advantage opportunities.
For Brown, Jesse Fratkin had a goal and an assist while Jarred
Smith picked up a pair of assists. Matt Wahl and Harry Zolnierczyk
both scored a goal to aid the Bears cause. Mike Clemente stopped 20
of 22 shots on the night for the victory, his second of the
year.
Brown took the lead in the first period when Wahl followed up on a
shot from Fratkin that went wide of the net, but caromed off to the
weak side, where Wahl buried a shot past Iles as Brown lead, 1-0,
after one period. In the second, Zolnierczyk made the score 2-0 in
favor of the Bears, intercepting a pass and skating in alone on
Iles, beating the freshman netminder on the breakaway at the 2:50
mark of the period.
Cornell got one goal back four and a half minutes later. With the
Big Red having an open net on a delayed penalty call against the
Bears, Braden Birch sent a shot toward the net that Kary redirected
around Clemente and inside the near post, cutting the deficit in
half.
In the third, Fratkin scored the eventual game-winner, slipping a
shot past Iles at the 9:38 mark of the period to put Cornell in a
3-1 hole. The Big Red did pull back to within one when Devin scored
his goal at the 19:02 mark of the third period, tipping home a shot
from Kirill Gotovets, but Cornell could not find the tying goal
before time expired.
The Big Red returns to action in a non-league game on Saturday,
taking on Colgate in a special 7:30 p.m. contest at the Prudential
Center in Newark, N.J., the home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils.
Tickets for that game are available through the Cornell Athletic
Ticket Office, Ticketmaster and the Prudential Center Box
Office.












