UMass Lowell Takes Weekend Series Opener over Men's Ice Hockey, 4-1, Friday Night
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Postgame Comments: Dennehy
LOWELL, Mass. – No. 9/7 UMass Lowell scored three times in the third period to break a scoreless tie and deal the Merrimack College men's ice hockey a 4-1 setback on Friday night at the Tsongas Center.
The Basics
Score: UMass Lowell 4, Merrimack 1
Records: Merrimack (6-7-3, 1-3-3 HEA) | #9/7 UMass Lowell (9-5-3, 5-3-1 HEA)
Location: Tsongas Center | Lowell, Mass.
Attendance: 5903
Game Duration: 2:00
How It Happened
1st Period
- After a slow start to the game, junior goaltender Collin Delia (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) was forced to come up with serveral impressive stops throughout the first, including one on a breakaway, to keep the game scoreless through 20 minutes.
2nd Period
- Merrimack drew a power play late in the first that carried over to the second, and just as the man advantage expired junior Jared Kolquist (Hermantown, Minn.) managed to thread his second marker of the season thanks to a shot through a screen at 1:06 to give the Warriors a 1-0 lead.
- The River Hawks would get even midway through the second frame off a goal from defenseman Dylan Zink, and that score went unchanged through the remainder of the period.
3rd Period
- Merrimack was forced to swap goaltenders about halfway through the final stanza, as sophomore Drew Vogler (Florissant, Mo.) entered the contest with 11:31 remaining.
- The River Hawks would net the go-ahead tally three minutes later, as Ryan Dmowski finished off a 2-on-1 feed for his fourth goal of the season to put the hosts ahead, 2-1, with 8:15 to play.
- C.J. Smith stretched the lead to two a few minutes after that, threading home a wrist shot while slicing through the near circle to extend UMass Lowell's edge to 3-1.
- Zink would add one more off an empty-netter to account for the final margin of defeat.
Notes & Notables
- Merrimack has come up empty on its last 28 power play chances and is the only team in the country without a power play goal dating back to Nov. 11.
- Merrimack's winless stretch at the Tsongas Center moved to 0-5-2 over the last seven games; the team's last win was on Nov. 19, 2010 (4-3).
Goal Descriptions
- MC #1 (Kolquist/Seney/Kovacevic) | P2 1:06 – Jared Kolquist fires a wrist shot from the top of the left wing circle through a screen and in.
- UML #1 (Zink/O'Neill/Hausinger) | P2 10:59 – UMass Lowell works the puck from the left wing boards up to the point and over to the right side, where Dylan Zink fires a wrist shot and scores.
- UML #2 (Dmowski/Master/Campbell) | P3 11:45 – UMass Lowell interrupts a Merrimack breakout attempt along the right wing wall and turns it into a 2-on-1 rush in front, and Ryan Dmowski finishes off a feed from Nick Master into a wide-open net near the left hash.
- UML #3 (Smith/Gambardella/Hausinger) | P3 14:44 – C.J. Smith buries a wrist shot while cutting through the left wing circle.
- UML #4 (Zink/Edwardh) | P3 18:11 – Edwardh tries to bury an empty-net goal from behind his own blue line and misses wide, but Zink skates in, picks up the loose puck and tucks it home.
MERRIMACK LINEUP
Hennig | Gustafsson | Irvine
Seney | A. Larsson | Tavernier
Petti | Babcock | LeBlanc
Coomes | L. Larsson| Tibbet
Biega | Lashyn
Kolquist | Kovacevic
Spaxman| Carle
Delia
Vogler
Pantano
Game Leaders (MC // UML)
Facts and Figures (MC // UML)
- Power Plays: 0-5 // 0-1
- Penalties: 1 Penalty – 2 Minutes // 5 Penalties – 10 Minutes
- Faceoffs: 20 // 27
- SOG: 7-9 // 5-7 // 5-4 // 17-20
Up Next
Merrimack and UMass Lowell wrap up the weekend and season series tomorrow night at Lawler Rink, with puck drop set for 7 p.m.
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