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BALANCED ATTACK LEADS YALE TO WIN
Five Bulldogs score to defeat men's hockey team, 5-3

Yale University saw five players score as they went on to defeat Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 5-3, in an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division I men's hockey game at the Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y.

With the victory, Yale improved to 16-9-0 overall and 12-6-0 in the ECAC.  They remain in third place in the league standings with 24 points.  The Engineers fall to 9-20-3 overall and 3-12-3 in the league.  They are in 11th place in the ECAC with nine points.

The Bulldogs took a 1-0 lead in the first period when freshman Christian Jensen scored on a wristshot from between the circles.  Junior center Ryan Steeves won the faceoff back to Jensen, who skated to the middle of the ice and tallied his 13th of the season at the 18:23 mark.

Yale quickly increased its lead to 3-0 with two goals in the early stages of the second period.  Steeves scored his 13th of the season when he converted a 2-on-1 with sophomore Christopher Higgins at the 5:31 mark.  Higgins then set up the Bulldogs' third goal, which came just 56 seconds after their second.  This time, Nick Deschenes scored for Yale, his
eighth of the year.  RPI pulled to within one goal with a pair of power play goals later in the second period.  The Engineers' first goal came from sophomore Nick Economakos, who scored on a rebound of a Matt McNeely shot at 10:13.  Junior Ben Barr also earned an assist on the play.  RPI made it 3-2 when Kevin Croxton scored on a rebound  his team-leading 13th goal of
the season  of a Scott Basiuk shot at 15:53 of the second.  Danny Eberly was credited with the secondary assist on the play.

The Bulldogs regained their two-goal margin when senior captain Dennis Nam skated down the middle and scored on a wristshot.  Jeff Hristovski and Mike Klema both earned helpers on Nam's goal, his sixth of the season.  The Engineers made it 4-3 when Kirk MacDonald scored under the crossbar from just outside the crease.  Economakos earned the only assist on the goal,
which was scored at 5:51 of the third period.  Yale's Joe Zappala scored from the bottom of the left faceoff circle four minutes later to give the visitors a 5-3 lead.  Zappala's goal, which was set up by Zachary Mayer, chased RPI netminder Nathan Marsters.

Yale netminder Josh Gartner earned the win by stopping 22 shots while Marsters finished with 24 saves in the loss.  Kevin Kurk, who played the final half of the third period for RPI, made three stops.

The Engineers will be on the road next weekend.  They will face
nationally-ranked Cornell on Friday night and Colgate on Saturday.  Both games begin at 7pm.  Yale travels to the North Country to play Clarkson and St. Lawrence on Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm.