Box Score THE BASICS
-Score: Post University 5, Assumption University 4
-Records: Assumption University (1-3-1) (0-2-0 NE10), Post University (1-2-0) (1-0-0 NE10)
-Location: Worcester, Mass (Worcester Ice Center)
-The Lead: The Assumption University Men's Ice Hockey team continued their 2021 season on Saturday night in an NE10 conference matchup vs Post. The game started quick with both sides scoring a minute into the game and the evening continued to be a high scoring, back and forth battle all night with Assumption coming from behind again and tying the game in the 3rd only for Post to net a late winner.
HOW IT HAPPENED
-The Eagles started the scoring just 10 seconds into the game when Brandon Crowther won the puck in the neutral zone, created a 2on1 opportunity in the Assumption zone and slid a pass to Kieran Gardener who fired a wrist shot past Tom McLarnon (Fountainville, Penn. / New Hampton) for a 1-0 lead.
-Assumption immediately responded when Deven Sheth (Ashland, Mass. / Islanders Hockey Club) created a turnover in the Post zone and Robby Paragallo (Huntington, N.Y. / New Hampton School) and Robert Holyoke( Middleboro, Mass. / South Shore Kings) set up a pass to Sheth who wristed it over the glove of Brown to tie the game at 1.
-The Hounds took the lead just six minutes later at the 14:16 mark when Paragallo won a faceoff and Collin Phillipon (Salem, N.H. / Vermont Lumberjacks) stepped up and fired a wrister past Brown to give the Hounds a 2-1 lead.
-Post responded at the halfway mark of the first when Harrison Sheldon flipped a puck into the neutral zone and Jack Endgahl picked it up beat his man and fired a wrister past McLarnon. To send both teams into the intermission tied at 2.
-Sheth scored his second goal of the game gave the Hounds the lead six minutes into the second period when Paragallo created a turnover and snapped a pass to Sheth who then beat Brown with the shots to put Assumption up 3-2.
-Post tied it just one minute later when Evan Lugo got a puck on the boards and powered through the Assumption zone and put a wrister into the back of the net to make it a 3-3 game.
-Lugo scored his second of the game with six minutes left in the second period when Tommy Buis and Nick Brewer set up an opportunity that he finished to give the Eagles a 4-3 lead.
-In the third with the Hounds trailing and half of the final stanza remaining, Phillipon scored his second of the game when John Pigott (Arlington, Mass. / Tilton School) picked up a loose puck behind the net and sent a pass in front to Phillipon who put a shot past Brown to tie the game at 4-4.
-Post got the final goal on the night to secure the win with seven minutes left when Gardner created a turnover on the boards in the Hounds zone and sent in the directon of Connor Barter who was first to the puck and then put a wrist shot past the glove of McLarnon to give the Eagles the 5-4 lead and eventual victory.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
-The Hounds took 32 shots on the night while the Eagles had 20.
-Brandon Brown made 28 saves in net for the Eagles and earned his first win on the year while Thomas McLarnon made 15 saves for the Hounds.
-Assumption had three penalties while Post had two.
UP NEXT
The Hounds travel to Colchester, Vermont next Friday when they face off in an NE10 battle with Saint Michael's at 7:00pm.
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