The Brown Bears were fortunate to escape with an 3-3 overtime tie
against the UMass-Lowell Riverhawks tonight at Meehan Auditorium.

    Badly outshot (see below) during regulation, and particularly in
overtime, Bear goaltender Yann Danis once again saved Brown from an imminent
defeat with several remarkable saves.

    SAVES:                      1         2         3        OT       Total

        Yann Danis           12       12       14        7          45

        Dominic Smart        4         4         7        0          15


    Lowell came into tonight's action at 0-7-0 in Hockey East and 7-9-0
overall (So, all of Lowell's victories have been against non-Hockey East
opponents and one of their two non-league losses was a recent 10-2 drubbing
by Dartmouth in the championship game of the Auld Lang Syne Tournament after
blanking Vermont in the opening round, 5-0).  Lowell's other non-conference
loss was to Colorado College (in Colorado Springs), 4-6, back in early
October.  But the Riverhawks did take the second game from CC (4-1),
presently ranked #3 nationally, and then went on to beat RPI (8-4), Niagara
(4-3), Union (3-2), as well as St. Lawrence (3-2) and Clarkson (3-0) to
sweep a North Country swing in December.

    Two of Brown's three goals tonight were on the power-play (they went
2/4, which is encouraging; Lowell was 0/2) with the game-tying goal scored
with a man-advantage at 1:49 of the third period when Bear defenseman Paul
Esdale decided (at the last moment) not to shoot on goal from the right
point and passed laterally over to fellow defenseman Scott Ford who blasted
a slap shot just off the ice into the open right corner of the Lowell net
from just inside the blue line.  Captain Tye Korbl (14:26 of the 1st period
from Vince Macri and Adam Saunders) and Brent Robinson (at 6:02 of the
second period from Keith Kirley and Les Haggett) also scored for the Bears.

SCORING BY PERIODS:         1         2         3         OT

    Brown                               1        1          1         0
    UMass-Lowell                   1         2          0        0

PENALTIES:

    Brown:              5/10 min.
    UMass-Lowell    3/6 min.


    Brown is now 5-5-1 ECAC and 5-6-2 overall with two mighty big ECAC games
coming up next weekend when Princeton (Fri.) and Yale (Sat.) visit Meehan
Auditorium.


Bill Corrigan

LET'S GO BRUNO!