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PORTLAND, MAINE – The University of Maine men’s ice hockey team had a battle on its hands Sunday against Dartmouth. The Black Bears had to battle the Dartmouth Big Green and three regulars missing from the line-up in a 4-1 neutral site home win at the Cumberland County Civic Center.
Chris Heisten and Don Richardson were sidelined with a sprained ankle and broken thumb, respectively, suffered in Friday night’s win against Providence in Orono. Junior Martin Kariya, who had four goals and an assist on Friday, was scratched right before the warm-up because he had the flu.
“I had to juggle things today,” UMaine interim head coach Tim Whitehead said. “We brought extra players, because we knew this might happen. I had a line-up with Kariya, without Kariya and if Kariya started and couldn’t finish.”
Three freshmen, Matt Greyeyes, Paul Falco and John Ronan took the place of the sidelined players, and all filled in admirably with some good scoring chances.
Dartmouth also had to juggle things, missing its second-leading scorer Kent Gillings and defenseman Pete Summerfelt.
UMaine took the pressure to Dartmouth early but freshman netminder Dan Yacey stood tall making a few great saves early in his first collegiate start.
“He did a great job,” Dartmouth coach Bob Gaudet said. “I figured today would be a good chance to see what he could do. I knew [Maine] would probably get some opportunities and he handled them very well. He looked like a veteran goalie out there.”
The first goal he gave up was a great individual effort from Todd Jackson.
“When the puck came to my point, I just poke-checked past the defender,” Jackson said. That started him on a breakaway down the left wing with no one in front of him. He deked to the forehand and moved around Yacey’s left leg pad.
“I just waited until he committed, and then put it by him.”
UMaine went up 2-0 with good puck movement after Jackson got the puck in the left corner and passed it to Francis Nault at the blue line. He riffled a slap shot to the front, where Gray Shaneberger tipped it just under the crossbar 4:48 into the second period.
The Big Green got back in the game on the power play when Mike Murray slid the puck back to defenseman Trevor Byrne at the middle of the blue line. He one-timed a slap shot low to the ice that beat Mike Morrison stick side at 8:12, pulling Dartmouth to within one.
“I was screened, I didn’t even see it,” Morrison said. “It skimmed off the top of my [leg] pad. It was a great shot.”
The play was even through the rest of the period until Dartmouth went on a late power play and couldn’t get anything going.
UMaine cleared the puck toward Yacey and Tom Reimann forechecked aggressively, forcing him to quickly clear the puck. Niko Dimitrakos intercepted it in the middle of the slot and moved in on Yacey, waiting for him to commit. When he did, he slid it across the crease to Reimann for a tap-in goal at 19:18.
“That goal was the turning point,” Whitehead said. “They were starting to get some momentum from their power play goal, and they were hanging in there. Scoring right before the Zamboni came out was huge.”
“When we got that power play and we backed off. Our work ethic wasn’t quite there,” Gaudet said. “We coughed up a puck and it ends up in the back of our net.”
In the third period the goalies took over. Both Morrison and Yacey made great saves to keep the score 3-1. With 57 seconds left in the game Colin Shields scored an empty net goal, his 18th of the season.
All in all, Gaudet thought his team played well.
“It was a solid game,” he said. “Maine is a good team. We had to work for everything we got. I was pleased with the effort of our guys with some key players out. We had our chances, but we didn’t cash in.”
“It was a good win,” Whitehead said. “I thought we played a good solid third period.”
UMaine is now 11-6-3 overall and Dartmouth dropped to 7-6-1 with the loss. UMaine will head to Boston to play the Northeastern Huskies on Friday and Saturday.
Dartmouth College (7-6-1) vs. Maine (11-6-3)
Date: Jan 06, 2002 Location: Portland, Maine Arena: Cumberland County
Attendance:5784 Start time:2:00 pm End time:4:30 Total time:2:30
# Prd Time Team Typ Scored By Assists ——————————————————
1 1st 15:20 ME EV Todd Jackson (4) -
2 2nd 04:48 ME EV Gray Shaneberger (3) Nault, Jackson
3 2nd 08:12 DC PP Trevor Byrne (4) Murray, Maturo
4 2nd 19:18 ME SH Tom Reimann (8) Dimitrakos, Loya
5 3rd 19:03 ME EN Colin Shields (18) Deschamp, Metcalf
GOALTENDERS
Dartmouth College Dec MIN GA EN 1 2 3 Svs
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1 Dan Yacey (0-1-0).. L 59:54 3 0 15 7 8 30
TM TEAM……………. 00:06 0 1 0 0 0 0
Maine Dec MIN GA EN 1 2 3 Svs
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30 Mike Morrison (8-1-1).. W 60:00 1 0 6 10 15 31
PENALTY SUMMARY
Prd Player Team Min Offense Time
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1st Trevor Byrne DC 2 INTERFERENCE 00:57 PP
1st Mike Turner DC 2 BOARDING 04:07 PP
1st Trevor Byrne DC 2 SLASHING 05:14
1st Michael Schutte ME 2 ELBOWING 05:14
1st Francis Nault ME 2 INTERFERENCE 09:48 PP
1st Mike Murray D 2 ROUGHING 16:16 PP
2nd Peter Metcalf ME 2 TRIPPING 07:44 PP
2nd Mike Turner DC 2 HOLDING 09:58 PP
2nd Matt Greyeyes ME 2 INTERFERENCE 18:17 PP
3rd Prestin Ryan ME 2 SLASHING 08:23
3rd Chris Hontvet DC 2 ROUGHING 08:23
3rd Trevor Byrne DC 10 10-MINUTE MISCONDUCT 17:04
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