Third Period Goals Lift Bears Past Cornell
| Scoring Summary | |
|---|---|
| 1st - 06:16 | Crowley, Richie (Brown) |
| 1st - 11:54 | PP - Farnham, Bobby (Brown) |
| 1st - 15:01 | Miller, Greg (Cornell) |
| 2nd - 01:15 | Ross, Keir (Cornell) |
| 2nd - 12:57 | Ferlin, Brian (Cornell) |
| 2nd - 15:15 | Wahl, Matt (Brown) |
| 2nd - 17:52 | SH - Ryan, Joakim (Cornell) |
| 3rd - 12:04 | Lamacchia, Massimo (Brown) |
| 3rd - 13:23 | Jacobson, Ryan (Brown) |
| Cornell | Brown |
|---|---|
|
G:
4 Players (#4, #5, #16, #17 - 1)
A: John Esposito - 2 Sh: 4 Players (#5, #12, #14, #17 - 3) Sv: Andy Iles - 23 |
G:
5 Players (#3, #18, #21, #46, #61 - 1)
A: 3 Players (#20, #27, #46 - 2) Sh: 2 Players (#20, #22 - 4) Sv: Mike Clemente - 16 |
| TEAM STATISTICS | Cornell | Brown |
|---|---|---|
| Power Plays | 0 for 4 | 1 for 6 |
| Shorthanded Goals | 1 | 0 |
| Penalties (min) | 6 (12) | 4 (8) |
| Shots on Goal | 20 | 28 |
| Face Offs Won | 23 | 42 |
PROVIDENCE, RI – Trailing, 4-3, with less than eight
minutes left in regulation, rookies Massimo Lamacchia (Maple, ONT)
and Ryan Jacobson (Greenwood Village, CO) scored goals 1:19 apart
to help the Brown men’s hockey team (2-2-0, 1-1-0) come back
for a 5-4 win over Cornell (1-2-0, 1-1-0) on Saturday evening at
Meehan Auditorium. The game, which featured three ties and three
lead changes was back-and-forth all night, as the Big Red erased an
early 2-0 deficit with three straight goals, before eventually
leading 4-3 after the end of 40 minutes.
Lamacchia’s third goal in as many games came at the 12:04
mark of the third period after he stripped Cornell’s Kirill
Gotovets of the puck in the neutral zone and skated in along the
left wing. He opted to keep the puck, shooting to the near post for
his team-leading third goal of the year, tying the score at
3-3.
Then, just 1:19 later, Brown’s line of seniors Bobby Farnham
(North Andover, MA) and Jack Maclellan (Calgary, ALB) and Jacobson
combined for the game-winner. Maclellan dug the puck out from
behind the net and passed up to Farnham at the bottom of the right
faceoff circle. Farnham centered the puck for Jacobson, who beat
Andy Iles with a one-timer from the far post.
The two teams played a somewhat sloppy first period of play, with
Brown narrowly edging Cornell in shots, 8-7, and 2-1 on the
scoreboard. Junior Richie Crowley (Canton, MA), back in the lineup
after missing the previous two games, gave Brown a 1-0 lead just
6:16 into the contest with his first career goal. Junior Jeff Ryan
(Media, PA), who scored his first career goal Friday against
Colgate, collected the puck in front of the net from classmate
Chris Zaires (Aberdeen, NJ). Ryan immediately sent it up to Crowley
at the left point and he blasted a shot to Iles’ glove-side
for his first of the year.
Farnham increased Brown’s lead to 2-0, scoring his first of
the year on the tail end of Brown’s second power play of the
night. Brown held possession in the zone for the majority of the
man-advantage with sophomore Dennis Robertson and Maclellan working
the puck around the perimeter. From the top of the right faceoff
circle, Robertson sent the puck to Farnham at the edge of the
crease. Farnham patiently waited for Iles to drop, before lifting
the puck over the Cornell net-minder at the 11:54 mark.
However, just 3:07 later, Cornell got on the board when Greg Miller
beat senior Mike Clemente (Great Falls, VA) on a redirection of a
Keir Ross shot from the blueline.
With Brown still leading, 2-1, to start the second period, Cornell
needed just 1:15 to tie the score at 2-2. After an icing call
against the Bears, Ross collected the puck on a broken play and
fired a high shot through traffic from the slot to knot the score
at 2-2.
Cornell grabbed its first lead of the night, 3-2, with 7:03 left in
the second period when Brian Ferlin scored on a breakaway after
pushing Robertson off the puck at the Cornell blueline.
However, the Bears fought back and tied the score at 3-3 on the
first of the year for sophomore Matt Wahl (Wellington, FL), after
Brown gained possession in the offensive zone following a Cornell
hand pass at the other end of the ice. Farnham earned an assist on
the goal, passing to Wahl at the left faceoff circle. Wahl skated
towards the net and wristed a shot past Iles’ glove at the
15:15 mark.
The Big Red would go ahead, 4-3, before the end of the period, as
Joakim Ryan scored the third short-handed goal against the Bears on
the weekend with 2:08 left before the second intermission. After
Robertson failed to keep the puck in at the left point, John
Esposito got around him and skated in along the right wing with
Ryan in the middle. Senior Jeff Buvinow (Turnersville, NJ) had
Ryan, but the Cornell rookie was able to get a shot off after
collecting a centering feed from Esposito.
Following the Bears’ third-period goals and after a Brown
icing, Cornell pulled Iles in favor of the extra attacker with 1:19
left to play. Maclellan won a critical faceoff and Brown
immediately looked for the empty net goal with Farnham missing just
wide. In an exciting finish, Farnham had another empty net chance
go wide, before Nick D’Agostino made a glove save on a shot
by Maclellan.
For the game, Brown outshot Cornell, 28-20 and went 1-6 on the
power play, while the Big Red were scoreless in four man-up
chances. Iles finished with 23 saves, while Clemente made 16 for
Brown.
The Bears return to the road for three straight games, as they
travel to New York’s Capital District to face Union and
Rensselaer next weekend. Brown then takes a break from ECAC Hockey
action, as it will travel to West Point for a game against Army on
November 19th, the first of three straight non-league contests.
Brown’s next League games, after the Union-RPI trip, are not
until a December 1st and 3rd when the Bears play a home-and-home
with travel partner Yale.
