BU 9, at Providence 2 at Mass Lowell 11, Yale 3 (NC) Both games were on tv here, on WABU and on WNDS, and the only real competition was to see which of the winners would score more goals. BU led 5-0 after one, Lowell led 4-1 after one. I was kind of disappointed with what I heard from the WABU announcers, Dale Arnold and Mike Eruzione. They seem to have grown less and less objective as the season has gone on. With BU up 3-0 in the first, I believe, a penalty was whistled on PC for hooking (Scott Balboni?) on what was clearly a dive by the BU player, yet no mention was made of this. Instead it was called "a good penalty", while Balboni went off shaking his head at what was certainly a questionable call. BU would score on the man advantage. Later, on a cross ice pass in front of the BU net, PC's Brady Kramer redirected the puck right into Herlofsky before the goalie even had a chance to move, yet Dale called it Herlofsky's best save of the night. Only after a few replays did Eruzione mention that Kramer was too quick to pull the trigger and would have been better off taking advantage of the time he'd had and shooting the puck in the direction from which Herlofsky had come. And with the game a laugher in the third at 8 or 9-1, Matt Wright redirected a puck into the net with his glove - waved off, yet Eruzione was quite vociferous in wondering why the goal was disallowed. First, come on Mike, the game was a blowout. Second, his argument about why the goal should have counted seemed to show a lack of knowledge of the rules. The pass came from behind the net and while the puck was in the air, Wright deflected it with his glove and it went off the goaltender and in. Rule 6-15-c-8 says a goal shall not be allowed "if an attacking player intentionally propels or deflects the puck other than with the stick, or illegally with the stick, and it bounds or deflects off the person or equipment of any defensive player into the net." At any rate, it was another dominating performance by BU, unbeaten in its last 7 (6-0-1). BU has outscored the opponents 49-16 during those 7 games. After a 5-5 tie with Maine to open the streak, BU has gone 6-0-0 with a GF-GA of 44-11. This season in 19 games, BU is averaging 6.00 goals/game and allowing 3.05. 8 players scored goals tonight for the Terriers. BU has also now scored 6 or more goals 9 times, 5 or more 15 times. Ouch. The win enables BU to move into sole possession of second place in HE, 8 points behind Maine with one game in hand heading into Maine's game with BC Wed night. I did not see much of the Yale-UML game, but it sounded as if Bullock had rolled up 1-4--5 through two periods to give him 41 pts overall at that point. I don't know what he did in the third. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] Cabletron Systems, Inc. *HMM* 11/13/93