Friday, November 26, 1993
Achilles Rink, Schenectady, NY
Non-league Game
 
Lowell   1 0 3 0 - 4
Union    2 2 0 0 - 4
 
Scoring:
1st Period:
1) Lowell, Donovan 3 (Henry, Campbell) 11:57
2) Union, Ryan Thompson 3 (Holbrough, Albert) 12:44
3) Union, Troy Stevens 3 (Prentice, Montieth) 16:37
 
2nd Period:
4) Union, Chris Ford 5 (Thompson) 1:49 (pp)
5) Union, Russ Montieth 2 (Prentice, Stevens) 19:33
 
3rd Period:
6) Lowell, Hebert 6 (Bullock, Bazin) 4:03 (pp)
7) Lowell, Hebert 7 (Bullock) 11:03 (pp)
8) Lowell, Bullock 9 (Barozzino, Angus) 11:23
 
Overtime:
none
 
Shots on Goal: Lowell 9-14-15-4--42, Union 10-9-2-2-23.
 
Power Play: Lowell 2 of 7, Union 1 of 11.
 
Goalies: Lowell, Lindsay (19 shots, 15 saves)
                 Roloson, 5-1-2 (start of 3rd, 4-4)
         Union, Mike Gallant, 1-2-1 (42 shots, 38 saves)
 
Attendance: 1401
 
Summary:
 
The Lowell Rangers...I mean Chiefs used 3 third-period goals to come
back to tie Union, 4-4, in a non-league game at Achilles Rink.  The
Dutchmen took a 4-1 lead into the 3rd period, but again failed to hold
on for the win.
 
Lowell got on the board first on a goal by Neil Donovan at 11:57.  It
took Union less than a minute to tie on Chad Thompson's 3rd goal of
the season, set up by a nice pass into the zone by Cory Holbrough.  At
16:37, Union's Troy Stevens found himself in front of Lowell goalie
Craig Lindsay, and held it long enough to get a good high shot past
him.
 
Union played a good second period as well, extending their lead to
4-1.  They called on Junior goalie Mike Gallant more often in this
period, but he was able to stop all 14 shots he faced.  Chris Ford
scored Union's only power play goal in 11 chances at 1:49, and Russ
Montieth scored an old-fashioned Union goal by hacking one into the
corner of the net from the side of the crease at 19:33.
 
The third period was all Lowell.  The Chiefs got to within one on two
power play goals by Ian Hebert.  Just 20 seconds later, Greg Bullock
tied the score for Lowell.  The teams spent most of the period on
special teams - and that was the difference in the game.  Coming in,
Lowell had scored on 37% of its power plays and killed off 38 of 40
shorthanded situations, and that success continued.  Dwayne Roloson
came in to start the 3rd in goal for Lowell, but that didn't matter
much, as Union had only 2 shots on goal in the period.  He spent most
of his time behind the net touching up pucks iced by Union, although
he was very good at taking cheap shots at the Union players whenever
they were in the zone.
 
Lowell had the better chances during overtime, but could not score the
winning goal.  Mike Gallant stopped 4 shots in OT for the Dutchmen to
preserve the tie.  Gallant had 38 saves in the game.
 
Union is now 2-2-1 overall and remains at 0-2 in the ECAC.  Lowell is
now 5-1-2.  Union remains home next weekend to play two ECAC games
against Harvard and Brown.  Things are definitely different this year
- a tie against a good team, no matter how it happened, would have
been great last year.  But Coach Delventhal and the players were
clearly disappointed to have blown the lead and let this one slip
away.
 
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Jim Teresco, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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