February 9, 2009
OUA M-HOCKEY ROUNDUP: REDMEN ROLL A SEVEN
MONTREAL, Que. - Marko Kovacevic, a senior from Serbia, netted his first career hat-trick as the visiting McGill Redmen skated to their seventh straight win, a 4-3 decision in the 22nd annual Corey Cup men's hockey game at Concordia on Sunday.
McGill improved to 18-3-1 in their last 22 meetings against Concordia and the victory clinched second place in the OUA Far East for the unranked Redmen, who are the hottest team in the country right now with 13 victories in their last 15 outings.
With two games remaining on their schedule, McGill owns a 17-7-2 record and sits four points ahead of the second-place Stingers (14-9-4), who have only one game remaining before playoffs.
Sophomore Evan Vossen (Swift Current, Sask.) notched his seventh of the campaign to give McGill a 2-0 lead midway through the first period.
Cory McGillis (Sudbury, Ont.) gave the Stingers some life with his eighth goal to make it 2-1 after two
But Kovacevic snuffed out any hopes with two goals in 48 seconds early in the third period to give him a career-high 12 markers. Concordia's Renaud Des Alliers (Sorel-Tracy, Que.) and Andrew Palombaro (Laval, Que.) replied in the final period but it was too little, too late.
Goalie Danny Mireault made 21 saves to improve his record to 10-6-0. The rookie from Notre Dame des Prairies, Que., started in place of netminder Kevin Désfossés (Beauport, Que.), who was scratched with a bout of the flu after posting back-to-back upsets over No.3-ranked UQTR.
Mireault, however, failed to pitch a "complete game" as referee Nicolas Dutil made him sit out one shift after he had skated to the McGill bench in search of a towel to wipe his mask. Rookie Hubert Morin (St-Georges-de-Beauce, Que.) was pressed into action for what turned out to be 14 seconds until the next whistle.
Concordia's Maxime Joyal (Châteauguay, Que.) took the loss, allowing four goals on 37 shots
Source: Redmen Athletics
NO. 10 WATERLOO 2, WINDSOR 1, SO
WATERLOO, Ont. - The Waterloo Warriors played on Friday and Sunday against Western and Windsor. Both games went right down to the wire and would require a shoot-out to decide the winner.
On Friday the Warriors traveled to Western to face the Mustangs and their boisterous crowd. A strong third period comeback by the Warriors sent the game to overtime and then to a shootout before the Mustangs finally secured the win after 11 shooters, the final score 6-5.
On Sunday the Warriors hosted the Windsor Lancers. Once again the Warriors would require a third period comeback to take the game to a shootout. This time the Warriors came out on top and recorded the 2-1 victory.
Windsor drew first blood late in the second when Scott Gillis (Antigonish, N.S.) converted a slick feed from Kyle Lang (Tilbury, Ont.) on a Lancer two-man advantage. Following the goal, the Warriors began to turn up the pressure but couldn't beat a solid Jim Watt (Edmonton, Alta.) in the Lancer net.
At the 14-minute mark of the third, the Warriors were able to square the game on a goal by Chris Ray (Kelowna, B.C.). Neither team could break the tie and the game headed to a shootout. Doug Spooner (Toronto, Ont.) scored for the Warriors on their second attempt and Pier Pelletier (Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Que.) closed the door in net as the Warriors prevailed by a score of 2-1.
Source: Warriors Athletics
OTTAWA 4, TORONTO 3
OTTAWA, Ont. - Ottawa Gee-Gees fourth-year centre Dan McDonald (New Liskeard, Ont.) scored three times including the game-winner Sunday afternoon in a 4-3 men's hockey victory over Toronto to keep its OUA East Division playoff hopes alive.
Second-year goalkeeper Riley Whitlock (Calgary, Alta.) made 42 saves to help uOttawa move into a tie with Queen's for the sixth and final playoff spot in the OUA East with two games in hand.
The Gee-Gees need three points over its final three games to earn a playoff berth and could finish as high as fifth-place if cross-town Carleton were to lose its remaining games, including Tuesday at the Sports Complex (7:00 p.m.).
"We control our destiny," said Gee-Gees head coach Dave Leger.
Ottawa erased a 3-0 deficit early in the second period when McDonald scored his first of two goals off a 5-on-3 power play at 10:19 before notching his second goal at even-strength 72 seconds later.
The fourth–year centre then scored the game winner - his 11th goal in 22 games – on a power play at 13:18 of the third period.
"Bad start," said Leger. "We were really undisciplined but in the second period we put it together."
Third-year left wing Yanick Charron (Hull, Que.), scored once and added two assists for the Gee-Gees, which was missing fifth-year captain Martin Herard (lower body).
Third-year defender Eddie Snetsinger (Ajax, Ont.) had one goal on the power play and one assist for the Varsity Blues. First-year forward Kyle Ventura (Scarborough, Ont.) and fourth-year forward Joe Rand (Hamilton, Ont.) also scored for Toronto.
Source: Gee-Gees Athletics
NO. 3 UQTR 10, CARLETON 1
TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. - The No. 3 UQTR Patriotes defeated the Carleton Raven 10-1 in OUA Far East Division action on Saturday.
The Patriotes jumped out to an early lead scoring three minutes in and would go on to score five first period goals to take a huge lead into the first intermission. UQTR would score the first second period goal before Carleton would score their lone goal at the 15 minute mark by Chris Downey (Burlington, Ont.), assisted by Ryan Medel (Ruthven, Ont.) and Ryan Berard (Niagara Falls, Ont.).
Jonathan Boutin (La Pocatiere, Que.) scored two goals and added four helpers for a six-point effort. Eight other players hit pay dirt for the Patriotes, including Alexandre Demers (Laurier-Station, Que.), Charles Bergeron (Victoriaville, Que.), Etienne Bellavance-Martin (St-Jean-Chrysostome, Que.), Maxime Laramee (Montreal, Que.), Eric Beaudin (Laval, Que.), Francis Charland (Victoriaville, Que.), Louis-Etienne Leblanc (Ham-Nord, Que.) and Alexandre Blais (St-Anselme, Que.).
Carleton's goaltender Alex Archibald (Ottawa, Ont.) faced 41 shots as he made 31 saves in giving up all 10 UQTR goals. Back-up goaltender Matt Silliker (Summerside, P.E.I.) came in with three minutes remaining and stopped both shots he faced as UQTR outshot Carleton 43-23 for the game. Michael Dupont (Bienne, Switzerland) made 22 saves in the victory.
Source: Ravens Athletics, with files from OUA Communications
NO. 4 LAURIER 3, NO. 6 LAKEHEAD 1
WATERLOO, Ont. - The No. 6 Lakehead Thunderwolves men's hockey team lost 3-1 for the second straight night to the No. 4 Laurier Golden Hawks Saturday night at the Sun Life Financial Arena in Waterloo, Ont.
Lakehead now has a 16-8-1-1 OUA record while the division-leading Hawks go to 20-4-1 in OUA play. The loss also puts Lakehead in fourth place in the OUA Far West Division while Laurier remains two points ahead of second place Western.
Lakehead's goal again came from Brock McPherson (Brampton, Ont.), just like Friday's game. Laurier's goals came from Curtis Pettapiece (Christina Lake, B.C.), Rob Bernardi (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Jean-Michel Rizk (Dunham, Que.).
Lakehead again outshot the Hawks 23-20 but Laurier netminder Jeff MacDougald (Shallow Lake, Ont.) picked up his second win of the weekend over the Wolves and 19th (19-3-1) of the season while Wolves sophomore netminder Kyle Moir's (Calgary, Alta.) OUA mark went to 8-4-1-1.
Lakehead was 1-of-6 on the power play while Laurier was 1-of5. The loss puts Lakehead's OUA regular season losing streak at five games; a new Thunderwolves record.
Source: Thunderwolves Athletics
NO. 9 WESTERN 6, WINDSOR 3
LONDON, Ont. - Coming off a night when goaltending was sub-par, Brad Topping (Strathroy, Ont.) made 36 saves for his 10th win of the season as the Western Mustangs (19-6-1) won the goaltending battle in a 6-3 win over the Windsor Lancers on Saturday.
The Lancers (12-12-1) led 2-1 after the first period on a pair of power play goals from Jonathan Sciacca (Windsor, Ont.) and Kyle Lang (Tilbury, Ont.).
Rookie forward Joe McCann (Essex, Ont.) had tied the game at 1-1 before Lang's later first-period marker at the end of an Adam Nemeth (Amherstburg, Ont.) penalty.
In the second, another rookie stepped up as Yashar Farmanara (West Vancouver, B.C.) tied the game in the opening minute on the power play.
Senior Jeff Martens (Maple Ridge, B.C.) scored his eighth of the season to give Western the 3-2 cushion before Dallas Stars draft pick Aaron Snow (Windsor, Ont.) tallied late in the period on the power play to give Western the 4-2 lead.
Mark Thorburn (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) pulled Windsor within one goal midway through the third period, but Luc Martin (St. Thomas, Ont.) scored to make it 5-3 and Kyle Lamb (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) scored an empty-netter to ice the game at 6-3.
Source: Mustangs Athletics
OUA SCOREBOARD
February 6, 2009
McGill 4, UQTR 3
Carleton 4, Concordia 1
Laurier 3, Lakehead 1
RMC 4, Toronto 2
UOIT 3, Brock 2, SO
Western 6, Waterloo 5, SO
Ryerson 4, Queen's 3, SO
February 7, 2009
UQTR 10, Carleton 1
York 2, UOIT 1, OT
Western 6, Windsor 3
Queen's 1, RMC 0
Laurier 3, Lakehead 1
Guelph 3, Brock 2, SO
February 8, 2009
Ottawa 4, Toronto 3
Waterloo 2, Windsor 1, OT
McGill 4, Concordia 3
McGill improved to 18-3-1 in their last 22 meetings against Concordia and the victory clinched second place in the OUA Far East for the unranked Redmen, who are the hottest team in the country right now with 13 victories in their last 15 outings.
With two games remaining on their schedule, McGill owns a 17-7-2 record and sits four points ahead of the second-place Stingers (14-9-4), who have only one game remaining before playoffs.
Sophomore Evan Vossen (Swift Current, Sask.) notched his seventh of the campaign to give McGill a 2-0 lead midway through the first period.
Cory McGillis (Sudbury, Ont.) gave the Stingers some life with his eighth goal to make it 2-1 after two
But Kovacevic snuffed out any hopes with two goals in 48 seconds early in the third period to give him a career-high 12 markers. Concordia's Renaud Des Alliers (Sorel-Tracy, Que.) and Andrew Palombaro (Laval, Que.) replied in the final period but it was too little, too late.
Goalie Danny Mireault made 21 saves to improve his record to 10-6-0. The rookie from Notre Dame des Prairies, Que., started in place of netminder Kevin Désfossés (Beauport, Que.), who was scratched with a bout of the flu after posting back-to-back upsets over No.3-ranked UQTR.
Mireault, however, failed to pitch a "complete game" as referee Nicolas Dutil made him sit out one shift after he had skated to the McGill bench in search of a towel to wipe his mask. Rookie Hubert Morin (St-Georges-de-Beauce, Que.) was pressed into action for what turned out to be 14 seconds until the next whistle.
Concordia's Maxime Joyal (Châteauguay, Que.) took the loss, allowing four goals on 37 shots
Source: Redmen Athletics
NO. 10 WATERLOO 2, WINDSOR 1, SO
WATERLOO, Ont. - The Waterloo Warriors played on Friday and Sunday against Western and Windsor. Both games went right down to the wire and would require a shoot-out to decide the winner.
On Friday the Warriors traveled to Western to face the Mustangs and their boisterous crowd. A strong third period comeback by the Warriors sent the game to overtime and then to a shootout before the Mustangs finally secured the win after 11 shooters, the final score 6-5.
On Sunday the Warriors hosted the Windsor Lancers. Once again the Warriors would require a third period comeback to take the game to a shootout. This time the Warriors came out on top and recorded the 2-1 victory.
Windsor drew first blood late in the second when Scott Gillis (Antigonish, N.S.) converted a slick feed from Kyle Lang (Tilbury, Ont.) on a Lancer two-man advantage. Following the goal, the Warriors began to turn up the pressure but couldn't beat a solid Jim Watt (Edmonton, Alta.) in the Lancer net.
At the 14-minute mark of the third, the Warriors were able to square the game on a goal by Chris Ray (Kelowna, B.C.). Neither team could break the tie and the game headed to a shootout. Doug Spooner (Toronto, Ont.) scored for the Warriors on their second attempt and Pier Pelletier (Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Que.) closed the door in net as the Warriors prevailed by a score of 2-1.
Source: Warriors Athletics
OTTAWA 4, TORONTO 3
OTTAWA, Ont. - Ottawa Gee-Gees fourth-year centre Dan McDonald (New Liskeard, Ont.) scored three times including the game-winner Sunday afternoon in a 4-3 men's hockey victory over Toronto to keep its OUA East Division playoff hopes alive.
Second-year goalkeeper Riley Whitlock (Calgary, Alta.) made 42 saves to help uOttawa move into a tie with Queen's for the sixth and final playoff spot in the OUA East with two games in hand.
The Gee-Gees need three points over its final three games to earn a playoff berth and could finish as high as fifth-place if cross-town Carleton were to lose its remaining games, including Tuesday at the Sports Complex (7:00 p.m.).
"We control our destiny," said Gee-Gees head coach Dave Leger.
Ottawa erased a 3-0 deficit early in the second period when McDonald scored his first of two goals off a 5-on-3 power play at 10:19 before notching his second goal at even-strength 72 seconds later.
The fourth–year centre then scored the game winner - his 11th goal in 22 games – on a power play at 13:18 of the third period.
"Bad start," said Leger. "We were really undisciplined but in the second period we put it together."
Third-year left wing Yanick Charron (Hull, Que.), scored once and added two assists for the Gee-Gees, which was missing fifth-year captain Martin Herard (lower body).
Third-year defender Eddie Snetsinger (Ajax, Ont.) had one goal on the power play and one assist for the Varsity Blues. First-year forward Kyle Ventura (Scarborough, Ont.) and fourth-year forward Joe Rand (Hamilton, Ont.) also scored for Toronto.
Source: Gee-Gees Athletics
NO. 3 UQTR 10, CARLETON 1
TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Que. - The No. 3 UQTR Patriotes defeated the Carleton Raven 10-1 in OUA Far East Division action on Saturday.
The Patriotes jumped out to an early lead scoring three minutes in and would go on to score five first period goals to take a huge lead into the first intermission. UQTR would score the first second period goal before Carleton would score their lone goal at the 15 minute mark by Chris Downey (Burlington, Ont.), assisted by Ryan Medel (Ruthven, Ont.) and Ryan Berard (Niagara Falls, Ont.).
Jonathan Boutin (La Pocatiere, Que.) scored two goals and added four helpers for a six-point effort. Eight other players hit pay dirt for the Patriotes, including Alexandre Demers (Laurier-Station, Que.), Charles Bergeron (Victoriaville, Que.), Etienne Bellavance-Martin (St-Jean-Chrysostome, Que.), Maxime Laramee (Montreal, Que.), Eric Beaudin (Laval, Que.), Francis Charland (Victoriaville, Que.), Louis-Etienne Leblanc (Ham-Nord, Que.) and Alexandre Blais (St-Anselme, Que.).
Carleton's goaltender Alex Archibald (Ottawa, Ont.) faced 41 shots as he made 31 saves in giving up all 10 UQTR goals. Back-up goaltender Matt Silliker (Summerside, P.E.I.) came in with three minutes remaining and stopped both shots he faced as UQTR outshot Carleton 43-23 for the game. Michael Dupont (Bienne, Switzerland) made 22 saves in the victory.
Source: Ravens Athletics, with files from OUA Communications
NO. 4 LAURIER 3, NO. 6 LAKEHEAD 1
WATERLOO, Ont. - The No. 6 Lakehead Thunderwolves men's hockey team lost 3-1 for the second straight night to the No. 4 Laurier Golden Hawks Saturday night at the Sun Life Financial Arena in Waterloo, Ont.
Lakehead now has a 16-8-1-1 OUA record while the division-leading Hawks go to 20-4-1 in OUA play. The loss also puts Lakehead in fourth place in the OUA Far West Division while Laurier remains two points ahead of second place Western.
Lakehead's goal again came from Brock McPherson (Brampton, Ont.), just like Friday's game. Laurier's goals came from Curtis Pettapiece (Christina Lake, B.C.), Rob Bernardi (Etobicoke, Ont.) and Jean-Michel Rizk (Dunham, Que.).
Lakehead again outshot the Hawks 23-20 but Laurier netminder Jeff MacDougald (Shallow Lake, Ont.) picked up his second win of the weekend over the Wolves and 19th (19-3-1) of the season while Wolves sophomore netminder Kyle Moir's (Calgary, Alta.) OUA mark went to 8-4-1-1.
Lakehead was 1-of-6 on the power play while Laurier was 1-of5. The loss puts Lakehead's OUA regular season losing streak at five games; a new Thunderwolves record.
Source: Thunderwolves Athletics
NO. 9 WESTERN 6, WINDSOR 3
LONDON, Ont. - Coming off a night when goaltending was sub-par, Brad Topping (Strathroy, Ont.) made 36 saves for his 10th win of the season as the Western Mustangs (19-6-1) won the goaltending battle in a 6-3 win over the Windsor Lancers on Saturday.
The Lancers (12-12-1) led 2-1 after the first period on a pair of power play goals from Jonathan Sciacca (Windsor, Ont.) and Kyle Lang (Tilbury, Ont.).
Rookie forward Joe McCann (Essex, Ont.) had tied the game at 1-1 before Lang's later first-period marker at the end of an Adam Nemeth (Amherstburg, Ont.) penalty.
In the second, another rookie stepped up as Yashar Farmanara (West Vancouver, B.C.) tied the game in the opening minute on the power play.
Senior Jeff Martens (Maple Ridge, B.C.) scored his eighth of the season to give Western the 3-2 cushion before Dallas Stars draft pick Aaron Snow (Windsor, Ont.) tallied late in the period on the power play to give Western the 4-2 lead.
Mark Thorburn (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.) pulled Windsor within one goal midway through the third period, but Luc Martin (St. Thomas, Ont.) scored to make it 5-3 and Kyle Lamb (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) scored an empty-netter to ice the game at 6-3.
Source: Mustangs Athletics
OUA SCOREBOARD
February 6, 2009
McGill 4, UQTR 3
Carleton 4, Concordia 1
Laurier 3, Lakehead 1
RMC 4, Toronto 2
UOIT 3, Brock 2, SO
Western 6, Waterloo 5, SO
Ryerson 4, Queen's 3, SO
February 7, 2009
UQTR 10, Carleton 1
York 2, UOIT 1, OT
Western 6, Windsor 3
Queen's 1, RMC 0
Laurier 3, Lakehead 1
Guelph 3, Brock 2, SO
February 8, 2009
Ottawa 4, Toronto 3
Waterloo 2, Windsor 1, OT
McGill 4, Concordia 3
