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BRUNSWICK, Maine - The Bowdoin College men's ice hockey team
used a trio of second-period goals en route to a 4-2 victory over
UMass-Dartmouth in the Bowdoin-Colby Face-Off Classic on Saturday.
The Polar Bears win the Classic with a 2-0-0 overall mark and
improve to 3-0-1 overall this season. The Corsairs went 1-1-0 in
the tournament and drop to 5-2-1.
Colby and Salve Regina both finished 0-1-1 in the tourney after
skating to a 3-3 draw in Saturday's early game.
The Polar Bears out-shot the Corsairs 9-5 in the opening period
but failed to find the back of net. Bowdoin broke through in the
second period immediately following a UMass-Dartmouth powerplay. An
offensive push by Bowdoin saw Jeff Fanning rifle a shot that went
wide and richoted off the boards to Mike Collins behind the
cage. Collins flicked the puck towards the mouth of the net, only
to have it bounce off the back of Corsair netminder Jon
Dryjowicz-Burek and into the goal at 8:44.
Less than two minutes later, a Polar Bear powerplay resulted in
another score, as a Matt Smith slapshot rebounded off of
Dryjowicz-Burek's pads to the waiting stick of Graham Sisson, who
one-timed the loose puck into the net at 9:57. Colin MacCormack
finished off a rush down the ice at 19:32 to round out the second
period.
The Corsairs trimmed the Bowdoin lead to 3-1 when Giancario
Capodanno ripped a low shot from the top of the right circle with
7:30 remaining. With under five minutes to play, Capodanno finished
off another rush with a shot that slipped through the pads of
Bowdoin's Richard Nerland to cut the Bowdoin advantage to 3-2. With
Dryjowicz-Burek pulled for an extra attacker, Ryan Blossom
collected a loose puck in the neutral zone and sealed the win with
a empty-net goal.
Nerland collected 23 saves in the win for Bowdoin. Dryjowicz-Burek
stopped 29 shots for the Corsairs. Bowdoin sophomore defender Kyle
Hanson was named the Most Valuable Player of the Tournament.
Bowdoin will return to action on Tuesday evening when they host
Colby at 7:00 p.m.
(Right: Tournament MVP Kyle Hanson with Bowdoin Athletic
Director Jeff Ward)
