Saturday, December 3, 1994 Houston Field House, Troy, NY ECAC League Game Union 0 2 1 - 3 RPI 1 1 2 - 4 Scoring: 1st Period: 1) RPI, Brick 3, (Richardson, Perardi) 7:37 (pp) 2nd Period: 2) RPI, Rochon 1 (Hamelin, Tapper) 8:26 3) Union, Troy Stevens 2 (Monteith, Goulet) 18:14 4) Union, Russ Monteith 6 (Ford, Stevens) 18:42 3rd Period: 5) Union, Chris Ford 5 (Stevens, Boyd) 3:56 6) RPI, Healey 6 (Bartell, O'Connor) 6:14 7) RPI, Matthews 2 (O'Connor) 19:19 Shots on goal: Union 11-11-14--36, RPI 5-6-14--25. Goaltenders: Union, Mike Gallant, 0-3-1 (25 shots, 21 saves) RPI, Tamburro, 6-2-0 (36 shots, 33 saves) Power play: Union 0 of 6, RPI 1 of 3 Attendance: 4778 Summary: After a period and a half of slow, boring hockey, Union and RPI put on a great show with RPI coming out on top, 4-3. After RPI took a 2-0 lead, Union came back to tie and eventually take a 3-2 lead. However, RPI was able to come back and take a 4-3 win with the game-winner coming with just 41 seconds left in regulation. I have to disagree with those who have said they thought that RPI dominated the first period and most of the second. Just look at the shots on goal. RPI had a terrible time getting anything going, and the puck spent a lot of time in the Union offensive zone. Mike Tamburro did a great job to hold the Dutchmen scoreless for the first 38 minutes of the game. With RPI up 2-0 late in the second, it was a big Mike Gallant save on a breakaway by RPI's Chris Maye that turned things around. The Dutchmen came right back and scored 2 quick goals by the newly reunited line of Troy Stevens, Chris Ford, and Russ Monteith. That line came through again early in the third to give Union a 3-2 lead. I would have to say that Union had the better chances for the first part of the third, but RPI scored their tying goal when Gallant got a piece of a shot by Eric Healey but it trickled past him and into the net. Union missed another big chance when a Chris Hancock shot hit the post. Late in the third, RPI really turned it on. Gallant made some very big saves to preserve the tie, but the Engineers finally scored the winner in the final minute. Union couldn't hey Gallant pulled until about 20 seconds were left, and they only had one real chance to tie in the final seconds. If Union can put in this kind of effort in every game, they'll win their share. It has to be disappointing for the Dutchmen to work so hard and come out empty-handed, but even Coach Delventhal said after the game that it was a great game. Union falls to 1-3-1 in the league and RPI stays perfect at 5-0. The Dutchmen are 4-4-1 overall and RPI is 7-3 overall. Both teams complete their pre-Christmas schedules with road games at Princeton next weekend - RPI on Friday and Union on Sunday. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | This report and much more information on Union Hockey including schedules,| | rosters, team photos, and game reports can be found on the World Wide Web | | at URL http://tardis.union.edu/~terescoj/hockey/hockey.html | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Jim Teresco, Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science, SCOREC E-mail: [log in to unmask], WWW: http://tardis.union.edu/~terescoj/ US Mail: Amos Eaton Hall, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 Home: (518)347-0967, School: (518)276-4849, Office: Sage 1112 Also - Power Technologies, Inc. (518)395-2665, [log in to unmask] Union '92, '93. Owner/GM, Amsterdam Ice-9 - Senior Owner in OBFLB