Cornell Opens Season with Loss to New Hampshire
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Final |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire (2-1-2) | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Cornell (0-1-0) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 00:23 | Mike Sislo (New Hampshire) |
| 1st - 05:38 | D'Agostino, Nick (Cornell) |
| 1st - 07:05 | PP - Austin Block (New Hampshire) |
| 2nd - 02:59 | SH - Esposito, John (Cornell) |
| 2nd - 05:31 | SH - Stevie Moses (New Hampshire) |
| 2nd - 10:30 | Mike Borisenok (New Hampshire) |
| 3rd - 03:50 | Mike Sislo (New Hampshire) |
| 3rd - 04:52 | John Henrion (New Hampshire) |
| 3rd - 07:47 | PP - Mowrey, Dustin (Cornell) |
| 3rd - 18:13 | PP - Mowrey, Dustin (Cornell) |
| 3rd - 18:54 | EN - Stevie Moses (New Hampshire) |
| New Hampshire | Cornell |
|---|---|
|
G:
2 Players (#19, #22 - 2)
A: Mike Borisenok - 2 Sh: 2 Players (#19, #22 - 6) Sv: Matt DiGirolamo - 31 |
G:
Dustin Mowrey - 2
A: 6 Players (#6, #7, #12, #19, #26, #29 - 1) Sh: Tyler Roeszler - 5 Sv: Mike Garman - 17 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | New Hampshire | Cornell |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 1 for 6 | 2 for 6 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 1 | 1 |
| Penalties (min) | 6 (12) | 6 (12) |
| Shots on Goal | 31 | 35 |
| Face Offs Won | 35 | 43 |
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Freshman Dustin Mowrey scored a pair of goals in
his collegiate debut, but the Cornell men's hockey team dropped a
7-4 contest to New Hampshire in the season opener for the Big Red
on Friday night at Lynah Rink. Nick D'Agostino and John Esposito
both had a goal and an assist on the night for the Big Red.
Mike Sislo and Stevie Moses had a pair of goals for the Wildcats
(2-1-2), while Mike Borisenok had a goal and two assists. Austin
Block and John Henrion both added a goal, with Connor Hardowa,
Dalton Speelman, Paul Thompson, Blake Kessel and Phil DeSimone each
chipping in an assist. Matt DiGirolamo picked up the victory,
stopping 31 shots on the night.
Dan Nicholls, Sean Collins and Sean Whitney each added an assist
for Cornell. Mike Garman got the start and made 17 saves on 23
shots faced. Freshman Andy Iles came on in relief for the final
15:08 and stopped all seven shots he faced.
Cornell finished the night 2-for-6 on the power play, while New
Hampshire was successful in one of its six power-play chances.
The Wildcats struck for an early goal, converting on a Cornell
turnover deep in the defensive zone. Thompson worked the puck
behind the net to DeSimone on the right post of Garman, and slipped
a pass to a wide-open Sislo on the weak post, and he easily tapped
the puck into the net for the 1-0 lead just 23 seconds into the
game.
Cornell fought back, with D'Agostino firing a shot from the
faceoff circle to the right of DiGirolamo that hit the stick of the
netminder and caromed up underneath the cross bar at the game's
5:38 mark.
The Wildcats again took the lead at the 7:05 mark of the first
period, with Block scoring a power-play tally with assists to
Speelman and Hardowa as UNH took a 2-1 lead into the first
intermission.
Cornell again tied the score, this time with Esposito scoring a
short-handed tally at the 2:59 mark of the second period. Birch
started the play by knocking a puck out of mid-air to Esposito with
the back of his hand, and the sophomore raced down the ice before
ripping a well-placed shot past DiGirolamo, again knotting the
score.
New Hampshire took the lead for good just two and a half minutes
later when Moses scored the first of his two goals, recording a
short-handed tally of his own after being sprung on a break off a
Borisenok pass. Borisenok then added to the margin at the 10:30
mark of the period with his goal off a pass from McCarey, and the
Wildcats took a 4-2 lead into the second break.
With Cornell trailing by two goals, the Big Red began to pressure
more on offense, and the Wildcats, a strong team in transition,
quickly tallied a pair of goals in the first five minutes of the
third period to take a 6-2 lead and chase Garman from the contest.
Sislo and Henrion both scored goals off of defensive miscues to
bring Ithaca-native Andy Iles off the bench for his first
collegiate action.
Cornell began to chip away at the lead, though, as Mowrey scored a
power-play tally at the 7:47 mark of the period, with Colins and
Whitney collecting assists. Mowrey would score again on the power
play, this time with Cornell having an extra skater with Iles to
the bench to set up a 6-on-4 power play. D'Agostino started the
play by keeping the puck in the offensive zone on a missed
clearance by the UNH defense, and fed Mowrey for his second marker
of the contest.
With the deficit at two and less than two minutes to go in the
contest, Iles again came to the bench for the extra skater, but
Moses capped the scoring with an empty-net goal with 1:06 to play
in the contest.
The Big Red returns to action on Saturday night, taking on
Rochester Institute of Technology in a 7 p.m. contest at Lynah
Rink.
