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The University of Maine men’s hockey team extended its winning streak to three games Friday night against Northeastern University and won their first road game convincingly, 6-2, but the Huskies earned the split in Saturday’s weekend finale, 5-2.
UMaine (4-6-0, 3-3-0 Hockey East) will return home to Alfond Arena next weekend to host Boston College for a Friday-Saturday pair. Northeastern (4-5-0, 2-4-0 HE) will have a home-and-home set against Providence College.
In Friday’s game, six different Black Bears recorded goals and freshman forward Matt Mangene contributed three assists. Northeastern was able to salvage two goals after UMaine had built a comfortable 5-0 cushion.
UMaine freshman wing Adam Shemansky provided the only first period scoring with his team-leading sixth goal of the season. Goals from sophomore forward Spencer Abbott and junior defenseman Mike Banwell sandwiched sophomore defenseman Will O’Neill’s game-winning power-play goal in the second.
UMaine sophomore forward Kyle Solomon scored his first collegiate goal between Justin Daniels’ even strength goal for Northeastern and Steve Silva’s on the power play. UMaine forward Robby Dee opened the third period scoring with a power play goal.
Mangene assisted on Shemansky’s, Dee’s and Solomon’s goals.
UMaine sophomore goalie Scott Darling made 21 saves to pick up his fourth win of the season. Northeastern’s Chris Rawlings stopped 20 before being replaced by Bryan Mountain for the last 9:22. Rawlings allowed all six goals.
UMaine continued to be successful on the power play, going 2-for-5. Northeastern capitalized on 1-of-6 opportunities with the man advantage.
Northeastern committed 38 minutes of penalties, while UMaine players combined for 27 minutes in the penalty box.
In Saturday’s game, UMaine sophomore left wing Brian Flynn’s power play goal tied the game 2-2 7:38 into the third period, but Northeastern exploded for three goals within five minutes. The Huskies went 3-for-8 on the power play while UMaine managed just one power-play goal in six chances.
Banwell gave UMaine a 1-0 lead 15:34 into the second period, but Northeastern’s Robbie Vrolyk responded two minutes later.
Northeastern’s David Strathman scored shorthanded 1:12 into the third frame, and Flynn equalized at 7:38.
Alex Tuckerman’s unassisted goal and Kyle Kraemer’s and Matt Lipinski’s, both on the power play, secured the Northeastern win.
Rawlings picked up the victory in net and improved to 4-5-0. He made 34 saves. Darling took the loss after a 30-save effort. It was Darling’s first Hockey East loss of the season and second overall.
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