Yale
The Yale Bulldogs set the pace of Friday's game by scoring just 23 seconds into
the first period and went on to beat the Union Dutchmen by a score of 5-1. Yale
scored twice in the first, once in the second, and twice in the third for the win.
Christopher Higgins scored the early goal, the first of two for the sophomore,
to put the Bulldogs up by one. Union's Marc Neron answered with his 11th goal of
the season and his first in nine games at 15:44, the goal assisted by Joel Beal and
Jordan Webb. The 1-1 tie was short-lived as Christian Jensen put Yale up less than
a minute later at 16:12.
The two teams were scoreless in the second until the final seconds when Higgins
added his second goal with under three seconds left to play for the 3-1 lead.
Vin Hellemeyer made it 4-1 with 13:10 remaining in the game, his goal assisted
by Higgins. Goalie Kris Mayotte was pulled after the goal and Tim Roth
played the remainder of the game. Roth was pulled twice for the empty attacker,
but Union was unable to capitalize and Yale added an empty netter with 36 seconds
remaining.
Mayotte made 21 saves for the Dutchmen while Roth made 5. Josh Gartner
made 23 for Yale.
Union was 0-4 on the power play, Yale was 0-2.
The loss, coupled with a Brown tie and Dartmouth win put Union in a threeway
tie for fourth place in the ECAC, dropping to 12-13-4 overall, 8-7-2 in the
ECAC.
Princeton
The Dutchmen held on to a three-way tie for fourth place in the ECAC after
their season sweep of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday night, snapping a two-game
losing streak before heading back on the road next weekend. Union's Kris Goodjohn
and Nathan Gillies each had big nights offensively to secure the win.
The Tigers got on the board first in the game with Mike Patton's goal at 10:20.
The power play tally was assisted by Dustin Sproat and Steve Slaton. But the Dutchmen
took control from there with Goodjohn's first goal of the night at 11:02 to tie
it up at the end of one.
Union had an extended 5×3 through the first part of the second and capitalized
with the two-man advantage just elapsing, with Goodjohn taking his second goal at
1:55. Matt Vagvolgyi made it a two-goal game five minutes later, with Goodjohn
adding the first of his two assists.
Captain Nathan Gillies, absent for Friday's game vs. Yale, came up with the
first of his two goals at 1:07 of the third for the 4-1 lead. Chris Owen cut into the
lead with another Tigers power play goal at 14:34, but the Dutchmen answered less
than 15 seconds later. Randy Dagenais netted his second goal of the season to
regain the three-goal lead for Union. Gillies added his second goal on the power
play at 19:00 to close out the game.
Kris Mayotte was in net for Union and made 23 saves for the win. Nate
Nomeland made 21 for Princeton.
Union was 2-5 on the power play, Princeton was 2-6.
The Dutchmen are again at .500 overall (13-13-4) and 9-7-2 in ECAC play.