In a New Year's Day tilt on Saturday, the top team in DivII,
Alabama-Huntsville, hosted and defeated DivI Merrimack, 7-5.  UAH
improved to 11-1-1, according to the paper.  Merrimack dropped to
7-8-1 (now 8-8-1 after this afternoon's 5-0 win - no details yet).
 
UAH scored four times in the first to take a 4-2 lead.  Lance West got
the Chargers on the board by scoring just 14 seconds into the game.
 
Merrimack's Claudio Peca brought the Warriors within one at 4-3, 13:21
of the second, but that would be as close as it would get.  Graham
Fair, who would finish with a hat trick for UAH, got that one back and
the score was 5-3 entering the third.  Garry Symons made it 6-3 before
Rob Beck (two goals on the night) cut it to 6-4, then Mario Mazzuca
(UAH) and Dan Hodge (Merrimack) swapped goals for the 7-5 final.
Merrimack outshot UAH 44-26; Derek Puppa turned aside 39 shots in the
UAH net while Martin Legault had 19 saves for Merrimack.
 
Merrimack won the second game of the set today (1/2/94), 5-0, but the
score is all I know right now.
 
Happy 1994, all...
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Mike Machnik                                          [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                  *HMM* 11/13/93
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