By Brandy Thurston, Director of Sports Information
(Morrisville, NY – Nov. 8, 2013) The Morrisville State College men’s ice hockey team battled back from a three goal deficit Fridaynight, but fell short as visiting Buffalo State College netted the 7-5 high scoring State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) decision over the hosts in Morrisville.
The loss drops the Mustangs to 0-3-0 overall, the same in conference play, while Buffalo State improves to 2-1-0 in both overall and SUNYAC action.
Morrisville State was first to post one on the scoreboard, as Zach Bayer (Glendale, Az.) connected with Rob Molinaro (Yonkers, N.Y.) for the tally nearly five minutes in.
Buffalo State responded with three unanswered scores over a four minute span, including two within 33 seconds of one another for the 3-1 lead after one.
In the second, freshman John Doyle (New Lovell, ON) made it a one goal game, posting the power play score off an assist from Jordan Carvalho (Brampton, ON) and Joe Santino (Woodbridge, ON), but a power play tally from Buffalo in the middle of the period regained the two goal lead.
Morrisville State’s Matthew Beer (Corunna, ON) posted the second Mustang power play score late in the period, taking advantage of a Bengal whistled for a hooking penalty, to send the Mustangs into the locker room after two, trailing 4-3.
Midway through the third frame, Mike Dolman (Hawthorne, N.J.) fed the puck from behind the net to the left, where Ryan Marcuz (Richmond Hill, ON) reached behind to rifle the shot past Bengal keeper Kevin Carr for the equalizing score at the8:32 mark.
A minute later, Adam Rossi regained the Buffalo State lead, collecting his own rebound and poking the puck past Azzano for the go ahead tally.
Dan Turgeon made it a two goal Bengal lead at 14:30 with a power play score, before Marcuz posted his second of the night just over two minutes later for the Mustangs, cutting it to one with just over three minutes to go in the period.
Kyle Whipple sealed the win for the Bengals, netting the empty netter off a Morrisville State defenseman turnover at the blue line with under a minute to play.
Carr finished with 37 saves on the night in the win for Buffalo State.
Christopher Azzano (Oshawa, ON) turned away 29, 13 in the opening frame.
Morrisville State returns to the ice Nov. 9, hosting the Bengals for a second time, at 7 p.m.
Cool that we can finally get some coverage on the team! To bad most of the players can’t play defense like doyle or pass like that kid dolnan. Speaking of him he was open numerous times but the other kid marquez that kept shooting, did not want to pass. But I guess greed is a killer. Well it certainly is for this team.