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No. 14 Men's Hockey Earns 7-1 Win At No. 15 Massachusetts
Feb. 5, 2010 AMHERST, Mass. - Junior Joe Whitney scored a pair of first-period goals, Brian Gibbons tallied a career-high four assists and six players scored one goal each as 14th-ranked Boston College beat No. 15 Massachusetts 7-1 before 8,389 fans in the Mullins Center. Sophomore Cam Atkinson and freshman Steven Whitney each tallied one goal and two assists for the victors, who have won three straight by a combined score of 18-3. The Joe Whitney, Gibbons, Atkinson line accounted for nine points - three goals and six assists - on the night, bringing their seven-game totals to 14 goals, 24 assists and 38 points. BC scored four times in the opening period and three times in the second. Massachusetts broke the visitor's shutout bid at 14:23 of the third period for the 7-1 final. Joe Whitney opened the scoring at 4:52 of the first period. Paul Carey doubled the BC lead at 13:20 before Whitney notched his second of the period at 14:38 and sophomore center Jimmy Hayes tallied the team's fourth score of the opening period - an unassisted score - at 16:56. Steven Whitney tallied BC's first of the three second-period scores with Chris Kreider adding his sixth goal of the season and the team's sixth of the game at 17:41. Atkinson punctuated BC's scoring one the power play with 0.2 of a second left in the middle period. The goal was his team-leading 17th of the season.
Junior goalie John Muse recorded 16 saves in two periods to earn his 53rd win in his 99th game. Muse is tied with three former Eagles - Jim Logue, Paul Skidmore and Greg Taylor - for fifth on the school's win list. Freshman Parker Milner six saves in the final 20 minutes. Massachusetts junior goalie Paul Dainton took the loss, recording 12 saves in the first period. Senior Dan Meyers totaled 12 saves in the last 40 minutes. BC, which has won each of its two games against the Minutemen this season, will conclude the league three-game series on Feb. 26 inside Conte Forum. With the victory, BC assumed sole possession of second place in the Hockey East standings, three points behind league-leading New Hampshire, which lost at Maine tonight and will conclude the weekend series on Saturday night. Next, BC will play BU in the 58th Beanpot Championship on Monday, Feb. 8 at 8 p.m. in Boston's TD Garden. Team Records: Boston College 15-8-2, 11-6-2 Hockey East; Massachusetts 16-11-0, 11-9-0 HE Game Notes: With four points, Gibbons extending his scoring streak to 10 games (5-13--18) ... Freshman center Pat Mullane tallied two assists for his second straight multiple-point game and fifth of the season ... BC improved to 19-4-1 in the Mullins Center. |
