Box Score

Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-- The Skidmore College hockey team is off to a 2-0 start with a 6-2 ECAC East win over St. Anselm College, Saturday at the Saratoga City Rink. The Hawks fall to 1-1.

The Thoroughbreds were a perfect four-for-four on power-play opportunities.

Freshman defenseman Zach Menard (Burlington, Mass./NH Monarchs) had two goals and an assist, freshman Brendan Cottam (Belmont, Mass./Lawrence Acad.) had a goal and two assists, and junior Alex Mykolenko (Kharkov, Ukraine/Northwood School) had three assists for the Thoroughbreds.

Skidmore scored the game's first three goals. Matt Czerkowicz (Blackstone, Mass./Kent School) opened the scoring at 11:38 of the first. Nick Dupuis (Holyoke, Mass./Springfield Falcons) made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 13:52 and Menard pushed the lead to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 15:26. Mike Richard got St. Anselm on the board at 16:42 to cut the lead to 3-1, heading into the first intermission.

The Thoroughbreds put the game away with two quick goals early in the second. Menard scored his second of the game at 1:05 and Joe Melnyk (Rotterdam, N.Y./CD Selects) scored 32 seconds later to make it 5-1. The Hawks got a 5-on-3 power-play goal at 8:48 from Coleman Noonan to end the period down 5-2.

The lone goal of the third was Cottman's first career goal at 13:04.

Thoroughbred goalie Colin Bessey (Montclair, N.J./Trinity-Pawling) stopped 27 shots, including 13 in the second period.

Skidmore will play SUNY Potsdam in Lake Placid on Tuesday at 7 p.m.



Hockey Game Box Score (Final)
2010 Skidmore College Hockey
St. Anselm vs Skidmore College (Nov 21, 2009 at Saratoga Springs, NY)
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St. Anselm (1-1, 1-1 ECAC East) vs. Skidmore College (2-0, 2-0 ECAC East)
Date: Nov 21, 2009 Location: Saratoga Springs, NY Arena: Saratoga City Rink
Attendance:290 Start time:4 pm End time:5:55 pm Total time:1:55
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Goals by Period 1 2 3 Tot
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St. Anselm.......... 1 1 0 - 2
Skidmore College.... 3 2 1 - 6

1st period - 1, SKDM, Matt Czerkowicz (Alex Radmin, Jonathan
Watanabe) 11:38. 2, SKDM, Nick Dupuis (Tyler Doremus) 13:52 (pp). 3,
SKDM, Zach Menard (Alex Mykolenko, Brendan Cottam) 15:26 (pp). 4,
STAM, Mike Richard (Coleman Noonan, Ryan Butler) 16:42. Penalties -
Ryan Clark, STAM (hooking) 11:59; Seth Goodrich, STAM (elbowing)
13:40.

2nd period - 5, SKDM, Zach Menard (Gordon Nicholson) 1:05 (pp). 6,
SKDM, Joe Melnyk (Alex Mykolenko, Brendan Cottam) 1:37. 7, STAM,
Coleman Noonan (Nick Wheeler) 8:48 (pp). Penalties - Mike Richard,
STAM (tripping) 1:01; Alex Riccio, SKDM (elbowing) 6:42; Jonathan
Watanabe, SKDM (checking) 7:54; Nick Dupuis, SKDM (roughing) 8:29;
Tyler Doremus, SKDM (tripping) 17:46.

3rd period - 8, SKDM, Brendan Cottam (Alex Mykolenko, Zach Menard)
13:04 (pp). Penalties - Zach Menard, SKDM (hooking) 3:53; Sasha
Thomas, SKDM (hf) 10:09; Jim Toomey, STAM (tripping) 12:28; Kyle
Montour, SKDM (slashing) 15:33.

Shots on goal - STAM 5-14-10 29; SKDM 15-5-9 29.

Power plays - STAM 0 of 0; SKDM 0 of 0.

Penalties - STAM 4 (8 min); SKDM 7 (14 min).

Goalies - STAM, Corey Cotnoir (21:37 minutes, 18 shots-13 saves) ,
Alex Wyse (38:23, 11-10); SKDM, Colin Bessey 2-0 (60:00, 29-27).

Penalty shots - None.

A-290 T-1:55
Three stars: 1. None 2. None 3. None
Referee:Ober Linesman:O'Hearn; Bove
Win-Colin Bessey (2-0). Loss-Corey Cotnoir.