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# 8 Providence defeated at northeastern, 4-3

        BOSTON, Mass. -- The eighth-ranked Providence College men's hockey team
was defeated by Northeastern, 4-3, on Friday, November 8 at Matthews Arena
in Boston, Mass.  The loss was the first defeat of the season for the
Friars, who had won a school record seven consecutive games to start the
season.
        Northeastern jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first period on goals by Mike
Ryan and Donny Grover.  The Friars cut the lead to 2-1 at 14:41 as Peter
Fregoe (Massena, N.Y.) collected a rebound in front of the net and recorded
a power-play goal.  The Friars tied the game with less than two minutes
remaining in the first period.  Junior Stephen Wood (Sudbury, Mass.) stole
the puck just inside the Northeastern blue line and found senior Jon
DiSalvatore (S. Windsor, Conn.), who made a cross ice pass to senior Devin
Rask (Parkside, Sask.) who scored his eighth goal of the season.
        In the second period Fregoe scored his second power-play goal of the night
to give the Friars their first lead of the game  at 16:22.  For Fregoe, it
was his team leading 10th goal of the season.  However, the Huskies tied
the game at 3-3 just over one minute later on Ryan's second tally of the
night at 17:41.
        The Huskies regained the lead for good in the third period as Brian
Tudrick fired back hander past PC's goaltender Nolan  Schaefer (Yellow
Grass, Sask.) at 6:18.  The Friars nearly tied the game with 1:36 remaining
in the third period, but the Huskies' Keni Gibson made a glove save on
DiSalvatore's back hander.
         Schaefer (Yellow Grass, Sask.) made 21 saves for Providence, while Gibson
stopped 34 shots.
        The Friars are back in action on Saturday, November 9 when they face
Northeastern at Schneider Arena at 7:00 p.m.


Providence College      2       1       0       --      3
Northeastern    2       1       1       --      4



First period - NU, Mike Ryan (Jason Guerriero) 6:21; Donny Grover (Brian
Swiniarski, Scott Selig) 8:20;  PC, Peter Fregoe (Stephen Wood) PP 14:41;
PC, Devin Rask (Jon DiSalvatore, Stephen Wood) 18:10; Penalties - PC, 2-4;
NU, 3-6.

Second period - PC, Peter Fregoe (Jon DiSalvatore, Devin Rask) PP 16:22;
NU, Mike Ryan (Jason Guerriero, Mike Morris) 17:41; Penalties - PC, 1-2;
NU, 1-2.

Third period - NU, Brian Tudrick (Donny Grover, Steve Sanders) 6:18;
Penalties - PC, 3-6; NU, 1-2.


PC, Nolan Schaefer, 9-7-5 -- 21  (60:00); NU, Keni Gibson, 12-11-11 -- 34
(60:00)

Records - PC, 7-1, 2-1; NU, 2-4-2, 1-2-1.

Attendance - 3,031 (Matthews Arena).

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