Box Score

Saratoga Springs, N.Y.-- The Skidmore College hockey team sent its senior class out with a 7-1 win over St. Michael's College in an ECAC East contest Saturday at the Saratoga Springs City Rink. 

The victory keeps the Thoroughbreds in the hunt for playoff home ice with two games to play.  Skidmore is 11-9-2 overall and 7-8-2 in the ECAC East.  St. Michael's falls to 7-13-2 and 2-12-1.

The Thoroughbreds dominated the game from the start, jumping out to a 4-0 first period lead.  Tyler Doremus (Aspen, Colo./New England Huskies) opened the scoring with a breakaway goal at 10:28.  Steve Keady (Canton, Mass./Thayer Acad.) made it 2-0 at 12:10 with a wrap-around score at 12:10.  Brett Bandazian (Wyckoff, N.J.) scored 15 seconds later for a 3-0 lead and made it 4-0 with his second goal at 17:46.

The second period was all Skidmore with Anthony Ferri (Jersey City, N.J./Loomis Chaffee), Joe Melnyk (Rotterdam, N.Y./CD Selects), and Sasha Thomas (Gatineau, Quebec/Winchendon) all scoring.

St. Michael's got on the board at 1:03 of the third when Nicholas Sheehan tallied his fourth goal of the year.

Keady and Ferri each had a pair of assists to finish with three points each.  Nick Dupuis (Holyoke, Mass./Springfield Falcons) and Mike Gibbons (Braintree, Mass./Xaverian Brothers) had contributed two assists each.

Skidmore goalie Colin Bessey (Montclair, N.J./Trinity Pawling) had 30 saves in net in 56 minutes of play, while John Bienkowski (Lexington, Mass./Hoosac School) had three saves in the final four minutes.  Brendan Rimmer had 32 saves for the Purple Knights.

The Thoroughbreds close out the regular season on the road next weekend at Trinity on Feb. 20 and Wesleyan on Feb. 21.


                         Hockey Game Box Score (Final)
                          2009 Skidmore College Hockey
    St. Michael's vs Skidmore College (Feb 14, 2009 at Saratoga Springs, NY)
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 St. Michael's (7-13-2, 2-12-1 ECACE) vs. Skidmore College (11-9-2, 7-8-2 ECACE)
 Date: Feb 14, 2009  Location: Saratoga Springs, NY  Arena: Saratoga City Rink
 Attendance:295   Start time:4 pm      End time:5:55      Total time:1:55
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 Goals by Period       1  2  3  Tot
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 St. Michael's.......  0  0  1 -  1
 Skidmore College....  4  3  0 -  7

   1st period - 1, SKDM, Tyler Doremus (Brett Bandazian) 10:28. 2,
SKDM, Steve Keady (Anthony Ferri, Nick Dupuis) 12:10. 3, SKDM, Brett
Bandazian (Jonathan Watanabe, Chris Webb) 12:25. 4, SKDM, Brett
Bandazian (Teddy Gowan, Steve Keady) 17:46. Penalties - Christian
Zizza, STMM (cross-checking) 3:57; David Vorozilchak, STMM (hk) 7:53.

   2nd period - 5, SKDM, Anthony Ferri (Mike Gibbons) 3:34. 6, SKDM,
Joe Melnyk (Hunter Thayer, Tyler Doremus) 10:58. 7, SKDM, Sasha Thomas
(Anthony Ferri, Steve Keady) 15:24. Penalties - Brady Earle, STMM
(high sticking) 4:45; Teddy Gowan, SKDM (holding) 5:43; David
Vorozilchak, STMM (hitting from behind) 7:59; Joe Melnyk, SKDM
(tripping) 16:11.

   3rd period - 8, STMM, Nicholas Sheehan (Brady Earle, Jean-Maxime
Legare) 1:03. Penalties - Matt Czerkowicz, SKDM (slashing) 3:26;
Charlie Moroni, SKDM (high sticking) 4:59; Tim Welsh, SKDM (slashing)
6:26; Jean-Maxime Legare, STMM (roughing) 6:26; Matt Whitney, STMM
(tripping) 8:00; Brett Bandazian, SKDM (slashing) 11:56; Ryan Mero,
STMM (cross-checking) 12:35; Bryan Brunton, STMM (cross-checking)
18:45; Bryan Brunton, STMM (10-minute misconduct) 20:00.

   Shots on goal - STMM 7-11-16 34; SKDM 18-11-10 39.

   Power plays - STMM 0 of 5; SKDM 0 of 7.

   Penalties - STMM 9 (26 min); SKDM 6 (12 min).

   Goalies - STMM, Brendan Rimmer (60:00 minutes, 39 shots-32 saves);
SKDM, Colin Bessey (55:58, 31-30) , John Bienkowski (04:02, 3-3).

   Penalty shots - None.

 A-295  T-1:55