Well, RPI was able to make it 19 straight victories against Brown in a 4-1 victory at the Houston Field House friday night. Here's the box score: Scoring ------- Brown 0 - 1 - 0 = 1 RPI 1 - 1 - 2 = 4 First Period: 1. RPI Kummu 1 (Dargety, Pasco) 10:49 [pp] Second Period: 2. Brown O'Brien 1 (Brewer) 7:57 [pp] 3. RPI Majic 3 (Pasco, Clarke) 9:04 Third Period: 4. RPI Majic 4 (Vaillant) 10:28 5. RPI Clarke 2 (Pasco, Majic) 15:48 Penalties --------- First Period: Hildith, RPI (interference) Traggio, Brown (holding) Hamelin, RPI (hooking) Chauvette, Brown (roughing) Majic, RPI (roughing) Second Period: Perardi, RPI (10-minute misconduct) O'Brien, Brown (holding) Brick, RPI (roughing) Hanley, Brown (high-sticking, 10-minute misconduct) Pasco, RPI (holding) Clarke, RPI (slashing)` Traggio, Brown (slashing) Hamelin, RPI (roughing) Ross, Brown (roughing) Third Period: Hilditch, RPI (tripping) Reschny, Brown (tripping) Moore, RPI (slashing) Layzell, RPI (slashing) Vaillant, RPI (interference) Borina, RPI (roughing) Askew, RPI (roughing) Proger, Brown (roughing) Olczyk, Brown (roughing) Hanley, Brown (roughing) Chase, Brown (5-minute interference) Dargaty, RPI (interference) Shots on Goal ------------- Brown 10 - 13 - 6 = 29 RPI 10 - 12 - 7 = 29 Saves ----- Brown, Finch 29 shots, 25 saves RPI, Kennedy 29 shots, 28 saves Power Play ---------- Brown (1-9) RPI (1-5) Attendance ---------- 3,727 The game got of to a very sloppy start at neight team could get any control of the puck what so ever. RPI got on the scoreboard first with a slap shot from the left hash marks that found it's way past Finch, in goal for Brown. The second period was very different from the first in that both teams had considerably less trouble with handling the puck. Brown tied it up 7:57 into the second, when O'Brien took a slapper from the point that hit a defender and was lifted into the air about 15-20 feet before it dropped into the net over the shoulder of RPI's Kennedy. Kennedy never even saw the puck. RPI took the lead back, however, when Sophomore Xavier Majic took a pass from Pasco on the right wing, and shot it past Finch on his stick side. In the third period, Majic scored his second goal of the night, when the puck was passed to a Brown defender who missed i xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx a pass to a Brown defender in their zone was missed and picked up by RPI's Dan Vaillant. He passed it to Majic right in front of the net. Majic stick handled to get Finch on the ground, and then backhanded it into the net. RPI scored one more goal to put the game out of reach when Freshman Wayne Clarke, playing on a line with Sophomore Xavier Majic and Sophomore Ron Pasco, took a pass from Pasco as he streaked to the net and put a wrist shot past Finch. At about 12:00 of the third period, the game was beginning to get completely out of hand. A megaphone was tossed onto the ice, a reminder of last years big red freakout when Brown took their team off the ice with 12 seconds remaining as 5,000 fans threw their complementary megaphones onto the ice. After the scene last night, the game just got out of hand. Eight penalties were called, five of which were roughing. With 2:30 left in the game teams were skating 3 on 3. Two penalties were sorry about that... let me pick up after the five roughing penalties. With 1:40 to go, teams were skating 3 on 3. Two penalties were called, even after that. Summary ------- I was very disappointed with Brown. I had expected to see a much better performance from their team. I now see them as a group of cry babies who will do anything (falling in front of the net, letting the trainer come out, and then skating uninjured back to your bench in order to receive high fives from teamates) to get a penalty called. RPI did not play a very good first period, but the second and first half of the third were probably the best I'd seen then play all year. The second half of the third appeared to me to be a desperation attempt by Brown to get back into a game that they were never in in the first place. Brown ranking of number 5 in the ECAC is a disgrace. If their team is anything like the Brown I saw last night, Union should give them a run for their money tonight. Tonight ------- Harvard (1-0 ECAC) vs. RPI (1-0 ECAC) At Houston Field House RPI Troy, N.Y 7:00 PM start