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CIS men's hockey Wednesday roundup
Photo credit StFX Athletics
| Acadia | 5 | Saint Mary's | 8 | Final | Boxscore |
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HALIFAX, N.S. - The Acadia Axemen traveled to the Halifax Forum Wednesday night to face-off against the reigning CIS National Champions and CIS #6 ranked Saint Mary’s Huskies. A spirited 60 minutes saw the two teams exchange 13 goals with the Axemen on the losing end of an 8-5 loss. Acadia gave up the first goal of the night just 3:04 into the first on the penalty kill as Colby Pridham score his first of three on the night. Jonathan Laberge answered back for Acadia on the same power play to make it 1-1. The Huskies added another four minutes later to take a 2-1 lead into the first intermission. The Huskies scored early and often to start the second period as they added to their lead 23 seconds into the second frame. The Huskies went on to add three more goals in the period to go up 6-3 to start the third period. Phillippe Bertrand and Tyler Dietrich added goals for in Axemen. The Axemen were able to cut the lead to one after the second intermission with goals from Laberge and Chris Bruton, their eighth of the season. With two minutes remaining in the third with the game at 6-5, Cam Fergus scored his second of the game to put the game out of reach for Acadia. A late power play deemed unhelpful for the Axemen, seeing Fergus
score his hat-trick goal into an empty Acadia net. Source: John Mann, Acadia Athletics |
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| StFX | 5 | Dalhousie | 2 | Final | Boxscore |
At Memorial Arena, StFX's Bryce Swan (Alder Point, NS) netted a pair of goals for the visiting X-Men who led 3-0 after the first period and held a 5-0 advantage after 40 minutes.
Swan, a second team all-star who registered 20 goals in 2009-10, opened scoring at the 11:35 mark of the first period, and Scott Brannon (Stellarton, NS) and Murdock MacLellan (Mabou, NS) netted two more goals for StFX in the next minute and 14 seconds to chase Dalhousie's starting goalie Josh Disher from the game.
Phil Mangan (Gananogue, ON) added his fourth of the season at the 13:11 mark of the second period and Swan netted his second of the game and fifth of the year two minutes later as StFX evened their record on the season at 5-5-1. Forwards Jason Bast and Chris Hulit each had two assists in the victory.
Freshman forward Brad McConnell (Brandon, MB) and second-year forward Shea Kewin (Guelph, ON) both scored in the third period for Dalhousie, who dropped to 4-6-0 on the season and are currently in seventh place. McConnell currently leads the Tigers with six goals and 10 points this season.
StFX's Joseph Perricone (San Juan Capistrano, CA) turned aside 31 shots to record the win. Disher started for the Tigers but was lifted in favour of Bobby Nadeau at the 12:49 mark of the first period. Nadeau allowed a pair of goals and finished the game with 29 stops.
The X-Men were 0-for-4 on the power-play, while the Tigers went 1-7 with the man advantage.
Acadia returns to Halifax Friday night to face Dalhousie at 7:30pm while the Huskies will travel to Antigonish, N.S., to face the X-Men at 7:00pm. Both games can be seen live on SSN Canada. (www.ssncanada.ca).
Source: AUS
