Box Score

HAMILTON, N.Y. (11/10/06) – Dartmouth junior Jon Grecu scored twice to lead the Big Green men’s hockey team to a 6-3 win against Colgate on Friday, Nov. 10, at Starr Rink. The Raiders, who are still seeking their first league win of the year, drop to 3-5-2 overall and 0-2-1 in the ECACHL, while the Big Green improve to 3-2-0 overall and 2-2-0 in conference play.

Dartmouth junior goaltender Mike Devine finished the game with 37 saves, including 22 through the first two periods of shutout hockey. Colgate junior Mark Dekanich (North Vancouver, B.C.) made 16 saves in the first two periods. He was replaced by classmate Justin Kowalkoski (Young America, Minn.) less than a minute into the third period, after Dartmouth scored its fifth goal of the game. Kowalkoski finished his second straight appearance with four saves on five shots.

Down 5-0, Colgate got on the board 3:02 into the third period when junior Mike Werner (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.) scored his first career. The Raiders worked the puck into the zone and peppered Devine with shots. Sophomore Nick St. Pierre (St. Etienne, Que.) shot from the right faceoff circle, and the rebound came in front to junior Ben Camper (Rocky River, Ohio), who also took a whack at it. The puck popped out to Werner on the left side of the crease who had a wide-open net to shoot at.

Two minutes later, the Raiders struck again. With the teams skating 4-on-4, Colgate worked the puck into the zone and let off several shots. A shot by sophomore David Sloane (Ambler, Pa.) rebounded out to classmate Mark Anderson (Hastings, Neb.) at the point. Anderson shot in wide of the cage, but the puck bounced behind the net to sophomore Tom Riley (Ottawa, Ont.) on the far post, and he poked it past Devine. The goal extended Riley’s current point streak to seven games.

Dartmouth got its sixth goal of the night at the 11:23 mark of the third. Rob Pritchard gained control of the puck in the neutral zone, and Ben Lovejoy dumped it into the zone from just behind the red line. Icing was waved off, but the teams expected a whistle, and most of the players stopped skating. Dan Shribman, however, kept playing, and skated in on goal uncontested to score on Kowalkoski.

The Raiders earned their third goal on the power play when Riley and Anderson got the puck to freshman David McIntyre (Pefferlaw, Ont.) on a break-out with five minutes left in the game. McIntyre streaked through the neutral zone, blew by his defender, and beat Devine top-shelf for his fourth goal of the season.

Dartmouth scored early and often to build a 3-0 lead by the end of the first period. T.J. Galiardi starting things at the 1:01 mark, and Brandon Harrington made it 2-0 1:09 later. David Jones scored with 4:29 left before the intermission. Grecu scored his first goal midway through the second period to make it 4-0, and added Dartmouth’s fifth goal 59 seconds into the third to chase Dekanich from between the pipes.

Colgate finished the game 1-for-15 on the power play, and Dartmouth was 1-for-8. The Raiders outshot the Big Green, 40-26, and earned a 45-30 advantage on faceoffs.

Colgate is back in action on Saturday, Nov. 11, when it hosts Harvard at 4:00 p.m., for the annual Silver Puck game. Dartmouth continues to Ithaca where it will face Cornell on Saturday at 7:00 p.m. The Raiders’ game will be available as a live video broadcast through Colgate’s All-Access package.