BOSTON – Niagara completed a sweep of a ranked Bowling Green team on the road and Army West Point opened its conference season with a win, highlighting Saturday’s Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) men’s action.

SCOREBOARD
Clarkson 5, Canisius 0
Niagara 2, Bowling Green 1
North Dakota 5, Bentley 0
Miami 3, Robert Morris 2
Ohio State 5, Sacred Heart 1
Army West Point 5, Holy Cross 2
Michigan State 5, RIT 1
Recaps available below

CLARKSON 5, CANISIUS 0
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Potsdam, N.Y. – Clarkson salvaged a split in its two-game series against Canisius with a 5-0 win Saturday night, highlighted by a 19-save shutout from Shane Soderwall.

Five Golden Knights scored goals and four had two-point games. Clarkson scored twice on the power play, including the opening tally 13:32 into the first period. The home team added two goals in both the second and third periods.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Canisius	0-0-0–0	19	7/25	0/4	3-2-1 (0-0-0)
Clarkson	1-2-2–5	29	6/12	2/6	2-2-0 (0-0-0)

NIAGARA 2, #18/19 BOWLING GREEN 1
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Bowling Green, Ohio – For the second night in a row Niagara came from behind to beat a ranked Bowling Green team on the road, this time defeating the Falcons in regulation, 2-1.

The hosts scored in the first two minutes of the game but Niagara goaltender Charles-Edward Gravel (Que.) shut the door from there, stopping 36 shots in the game. 

Senior Dallon Melin (Czar, Alta.) tied the score with his first of the season 13:00 into the second period. Sophomore Brayden Boehm (Nanaimo, B.C.), a transfer from Michigan Tech, scored his first as a Purple Eagle unassisted at 7:18 of the third period to provide the difference. 

Niagara killed all seven Bowling Green power plays in the win and have now killed off 24 of 25 on the season (96.0%).
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Niagara	0-1-1–2	23	15/60	0/3	3-3-0 (1-1-0)
Bowling Green	1-0-0–1	37	10/44	0/7	2-4-0 (0-0-0)

#4/4 NORTH DAKOTA 5, BENTLEY 0
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Grand Forks, N.D. – North Dakota completed the home sweep of Bentley, matching Friday night’s score of 5-0 again on Saturday.

Anthony Menghini scored twice for the Fighting Hawks, tallying the first and last goals of the game. Freshman goaltender Easton Rye (Peterborough, Ont.) made 25 saves in his first career start for Bentley.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Bentley	0-0-0–0	16	4/8	0/3	1-3-0 (0-0-0)
North Dakota	1-2-2–5	30	3/6	1/4	4-0-0 (0-0-0)

ARMY WEST POINT 5, HOLY CROSS 2
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Worcester, Mass. – Army West Point scored the first five goals of the game, converting on three of six power plays,  and handed Holy Cross a 5-2 defeat in the AHA opener for both teams.

Freshman Rhys Wallin (Wayzata, Minn.) scored the Black Knights’ first and fifth goals, while Barron Woodring (Downers Grove, Ill.) had a goal and two assists. Wallin has three goals through two games for Army.

Holy Cross’s two goals both came from Owen Kim (North Vancouver, B.C.) on the power play in a 45-second span of the third period, giving Kim a four-game point-scoring streak.

The two teams close out their series Sunday in Worcester.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Army West Point	1-3-1–5	33	5/10	3/6	1-1-0 (1-0-0)
Holy Cross	0-0-2–2	30	6/12	2/5	2-3-0 (0-1-0)

MIAMI 3, ROBERT MORRIS 2
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Moon Township, Pa. – Miami got two first-period goals from Ilia Morozov and a second-period goal from Matteo Giampa, then held off Robert Morris’s rally to spoil the Colonials’ home opener, 3-2, and sweep the home-and-home series.

Robert Morris got goals from Patrick Johnson (Chesterfield, Mo.) and Gavin Ewles (Barrie, Ont.). It was the first collegiate goal for Ewles, a freshman defenseman.

Charlie Schenkel (Toronto, Ont.) made 35 saves in goal for RMU.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Miami	2-1-0–3	38	5/10	2/8	3-1-0 (0-0-0)
Robert Morris	1-0-1–2	23	9/29	0/4	0-4-0 (0-0-0)

OHIO STATE 5, SACRED HEART 1
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Fairfield, Conn. – Ohio State earned a split in its series at Sacred Heart, bouncing back for a 5-1 victory Saturday night. 

Five different Buckeyes scored, including two on the power play, before Diego Buttazzoni (Langley, B.C.) got the Pioneers on the board with his third goal of the season.
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Ohio State	2-3-0–5	33	4/8	2/6	2-2-0 (0-0-0)
Sacred Heart	0-1-0–1	18	7/14	1/3	2-2-0 (0-0-0)

#3/3 MICHIGAN STATE 5, RIT 1
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Rochester, N.Y. – Michigan State spoiled RIT’s annual Brick City Homecoming game at Blue Cross Arena, as the third-ranked Spartans handed the Tigers a 5-1 loss.

Five Spartans scored goals, including a power-play tally from Ryker Lee and a shorthanded goal by Tommi Mannisto. Lucas Romeo (Oakville, Ont.) cut the lead to 2-1 on an RIT power play 8:50 into the second period, the second goal of the year for the freshman.  
 

	Scoring	Shots	Pen/Min	PP	New Record (Conf.)
Michigan State	1-1-3–5	37	16/72	1/5	3-0-0 (0-0-0)
RIT	0-1-0–1	26	19/89	1/3	1-3-1 (1-1-0)

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Sunday, October 18
Army West Point at Holy Cross, 4 p.m. ET

Tuesday, October 20
Robert Morris at Penn State, 7 p.m. ET

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