BOSTON – Sacred Heart, co-hosting the Ice Breaker Tournament with UConn, beat visiting No. 17/T-17 Penn State, 6-3, to highlight Saturday’s action among Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) men’s teams. Four AHA teams – Air Force, Bentley, Canisius and Holy Cross – had to settle for splits in their weekends after winning Friday night.
SCOREBOARD
Arizona State 5, Holy Cross 4 OT
Northeastern 5, Bentley 1
Sacred Heart 6, Penn State 3
UMass 5, RIT 1
St. Thomas 4, Air Force 2
Long Island 3, Canisius 2
Recaps available below
ARIZONA STATE 5, HOLY CROSS 4 OT
Box Score
Tempe, Ariz. – A game featuring wild swings of momentum fittingly took overtime to decide, with Arizona State scoring the winner in the first minute of the extra session and earning a split in the series, 5-4.
ASU scored first but Holy Cross tied things up as Matt Kursonis (West Boylston, Mass.) just beat the buzzer for his third goal of the year. The Crusaders took a 3-1 lead into the third period thanks to two goals in the last five minutes of the second.
The Sun Devils answered with three third-period goals to take a 4-3 lead of their own, with two tallies coming on four third-period power-play opportunities. Holy Cross sent it to overtime thanks to a second goal of the night from senior David Hymovitch (Scottsdale, Ariz.), a transfer from Arizona State.
Arizona State’s Jack Beck scored the winner at 0:46 of overtime as Holy Cross split a second straight weekend series.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| Holy Cross |
1-2-1-0–4 |
17 |
8/16 |
0/1 |
2-2-0 (0-0-0) |
| Arizona State |
1-0-3-1–5 |
35 |
3/6 |
2/6 |
2-2-0 (0-0-0) |
NORTHEASTERN 5, BENTLEY 1
Box Score
Waltham, Mass. – Northeastern started its season in impressive fashion, scoring five times and limiting Bentley to 20 shots on goal in a 5-1 win at Bentley Arena. Jacob Mathieu (two goals, one assist) and Jordan Tourigny (one goal, two assists) each had three points for the visitors.
Senior Jack Dalton (River Forest, Ill.) provided the offense for the Falcons, scoring on the power play in the third period. He was the third Illinois native to score for Bentley this weekend, following its 4-0 win against Vermont Friday night.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| Northeastern |
2-2-1–5 |
28 |
4/8 |
1/5 |
1-0-0 (0-0-0) |
| Bentley |
0-0-1–1 |
20 |
6/12 |
1/3 |
1-1-0 (0-0-0) |
SACRED HEART 6, #17/T-17 PENN STATE 3
Box Score
Fairfield, Conn. – Sacred Heart built a 3-0 lead, withstood a Penn State rally that featured three goals in 1:27, then answered with the final three tallies of the game to beat the Nittany Lions, 6-3, in the second game of the Ice Breaker Tournament for both teams.
Sophomore Landen Gunderson (Plymouth, Minn.), an Ohio State transfer, was the Pioneers’ offensive hero, scoring his first two collegiate goals. Gunderson started the scoring at 12:27 of the second period, a tally that was followed in the next six minutes by goals from
Taos Jordan (Brooklin, Ont.) and
Emmanuel Vermette (Quebec City, Que.).
Penn State tied the score with those three quick goals, all in the first 4:44 of the third period. Gunderson got the lead back at 9:17, converting on a two-on-one with Ethan Semeniuk (Fort St. John, B.C.).
Jake Bongo (Ridgefield, Conn.) and
Aiden VanRooyan (Dakota Dunes, S.D.) capped the scoring for Sacred Heart with empty-net goals.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| Penn State |
0-0-3–3 |
25 |
5/10 |
0/1 |
0-2-0 (0-0-0) |
| Sacred Heart |
0-3-3–6 |
41 |
2/4 |
0/4 |
1-1-0 (0-0-0) |
#18/T-17 UMASS 5, RIT 1
Box Score |
Game Highlights
Amherst, Mass. – UMass got goals from five different players, including two on the power play, to post a 5-1 win against RIT in the second game of the teams’ two-game series.
After the Minutemen took a 2-0 lead in the first period, sophomore defenseman Nick DeAngelis (King City, Ont.), a UNH transfer, scored his first collegiate goal late in the period to pull the Tigers within one.
UMass added three second-period goals to secure the 5-1 final.
Sophomore Collin Mackenzie (Elora, Ont.) made 41 saves in his fourth career appearance for the Tigers.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| RIT |
1-0-0–1 |
23 |
4/8 |
0/2 |
1-2-1 (1-1-0) |
| UMass |
2-3-0–5 |
46 |
2/4 |
2/4 |
1-2-1 (0-0-0) |
ST. THOMAS 4, AIR FORCE 2
Box Score |
Game Highlights
St. Paul, Minn. – Air Force had to settle for a split in its series at St. Thomas after the Tommies scored the last two goals of the game (one into an empty net) for a 4-2 win.
St. Thomas had leads of 1-0 and 2-1, but the Falcons were able to tie the score each time on goals by Oliver Genest (Sanford, Maine) and
Cole Christian (Duluth, Minn.). Air Force was never able to grab a lead, however.
Quinn Rudrud scored the eventual game-winner for the hosts with 5:47 remaining in the third.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| Air Force |
0-1-1–2 |
26 |
4/8 |
1/2 |
1-1-0 (0-0-0) |
| St. Thomas |
0-2-2–4 |
36 |
3/9 |
0/3 |
1-1-0 (0-0-0) |
LONG ISLAND 3, CANISIUS 2
Box Score
East Meadow, N.Y. – Long Island scored the first two goals of the game in the first 2:28 and while Canisius battled back, the Golden Griffins were never able to equalize the score in a 3-2 Sharks win.
Canisius cut the leads to 2-1 and then 3-2 on second-period goals from Rhys Chiddenton (Campbellville, Ont.) and
Walter Zacher (Buffalo, N.Y.).
The Griffins pushed for a tying goal in the third, outshooting the hosts 13-4, but couldn’t beat goaltender Lukas Renaud in the frame.
|
Scoring |
Shots |
Pen/Min |
PP |
New Record (Conf.) |
| Canisius |
0-2-0–2 |
28 |
2/4 |
0/1 |
2-1-1 (0-0-0) |
| Long Island |
2-1-0–3 |
25 |
1/2 |
0/2 |
1-1-0 |
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 11
Royal Military College at Army West Point, 2 p.m. ET (Exhibition)
Thursday, October 15
Robert Morris at Miami, 7 p.m. ET
Lindenwood at Air Force, 7:05 p.m. MT
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