Box Score
WORCESTER, Mass. -- Senior Cameron Mack (Long Beach, Calif.) netted a pair of shorthanded goals, as UMass Dartmouth held off a third period surge to run its winning streak to four straight with a 6-4 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference ice hockey victory over Worcester State Saturday evening at the Worcester Sports Center.
The visiting Corsairs (9-10-2, 8-5-1 MASCAC) jumped out to a 2-1 first period lead after markers by Mack and junior Kai Kapossy (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) sandwiched sophomore Nick Pennucci's (Worcester, Mass.) goal for the host Lancers (5-14-2, 3-10-1 MASCAC), and UMass Dartmouth collected a pair of tallies off the sticks of junior Nicholas Short (Los Angeles, Calif.) and freshman Austin Miller (Meridian, Idaho) in the first 8:53 of the middle stanza before Mack's second shorty of the night extended the visitors' edge to 5-1 after 40 minutes of play.
Junior Tim Drevitch (Oxford, N.J.) ignited Worcester State's third period rally with a pair of goals in the opening 8:26 of the final frame, and his freshman brother Kevin pulled the Lancers within one on a tally that came with 7:53 to play in the contest. The hosts had a chance to even matters with a power play opportunity in the closing 46 seconds of action, but junior Dillon Radin (Long Beach, N.Y.) sealed the triumph with the Corsairs' third shorthanded marker of the evening that came with seven ticks left on the clock and accounted for the final margin.
Senior Steven Leonard (Rockaway Park, N.Y.) notched a pair of assists in the win for UMass Dartmouth, which received single helpers off the sticks of Radin, senior Sean Leonard (Rockaway Park, N.Y.) and sophomores Derek Britner (Salem, N.H.) & Jimmy Pelton (Syracuse, N.Y.). Tim Drevitch added an assist to finish with three points in the setback for Worcester State, which received a pair of helpers from sophomore Henry Bruckner (Franklin, Mass.) along with single assists off the sticks of Kevin Drevtich, juniors Jake Karelas (Melrose, Mass.) & Matthew Manning (Novi, Mich.) as well as freshmen Petr Staif (Zruc-Senec, Czech Republic) and Deiter Stange (Niles, Ill.).
Sophomore Chris Stangarone (White Plains, N.Y.) picked up his seventh win of the season with a 28-save performance in goal for the Corsairs, while senior Josh Reinstein (Woodlands Hills, Calif.) suffered the setback with 12 stops in 28-plus minutes of play between the pipes for the Lancers. Freshman Nevin Tardif (Dunstable, Mass.) stopped 18 of 19 shots as well for the hosts, as UMass Dartmouth outshot Worcester State by a 36-32 margin but the Lancers held a 30-20 advantage at the face off dot for the contest.
UMass Dartmouth will be idle until next Saturday, February 15th when the Corsairs host Salem State for a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference clash at Hetland Arena that faces off at 3:00 pm, while Worcester State travels to Framingham, Mass. to square off with Framingham State in a MASCAC matchup on Thursday evening that faces off at 7:30 pm.
