HANOVER, NH -- Five unanswered goals led to a 5-4 Union College men's ice hockey victory at Dartmouth on Friday night at Thompson Arena. With the win Union (16-7-6) remains in a tie for first place in ECAC Hockey with a 10-3-4 record, while Dartmouth (6-17-1) goes to 4-12-1 in the league.
Freshman
Kyle Bodie completed the comeback for Union with only 2:45 remaining in the game. Union erased a 4-0 first period deficit with three goals in the second and two in the third. Bodie's goal, his the third of this career, came after junior
Adam Presizniuk's shot sailed high off the glass and bounced on the doorstep for the freshman.
The Big Green jumped out on the Dutchmen registering four goals within a 6:33 span, giving them a 4-0 lead 7:20 into the game. Sophomore Doug Jones started the scoring on the power-play 53 seconds into the contest and classmate Paul Lee followed at 5:37.
Junior Scott Flemming made it 3-0 with another man-up goal at 6:07 and junior Andrew Owsiak capped the scoring in at 7:20.
Union relied on its power-play, which entered the game ranked 11th in the country, to mount a comeback in the second period. Freshman
Jeremy Welsh cleaned up a rebound to make it 4-1 at 6:04.
After freshman
Shawn Stuart made it 4-2 with a shot from the point at 16:23, senior
Jason Walters went top shelf, making it 4-3 at 19:23 of the third.
The Dutchmen's power-play went to work with just 10 minutes remaining in regulation and Walters nearly tied it up with less than seven seconds remaining on the man advantage. Senior
Mike Schreiber sent a pass across the blueline for a Walters' one-time rifle that struck the crossbar.
Moments later junior
Corey Milan, who entered the game in relief in the first period, flashed some leather and allowed sophomore
Luke Cain to tip home a tying goal with 6:13 remaining. Schreiber threw a puck towards the net from the right wing and Cain deflected in his fifth goal of the season.
Freshman
Greg Coburn and junior
John Simpson earned assists on the Dutchmen's first goal, while freshman
Wayne Simpson and junior
Andrew Buote, who assisted on Bodie's goal, added helpers on the second tally. Senior
Mario Valery-Trabucco moved two points of tying Union's single-season point record with an assist on Walters' goal. Presinziuk picked up the second assist.
The goal was the 41st of Walters career and more notably his 109 career point. He is creeping up on Jordan Webb's all-time record for career points by a Dutchmen of 114 from 2001-05.
The Dutchmen complete the road trip on Saturday, Feb. 13 with a 7 p.m. contest at Harvard.
