2008 Woodie Awards
Hockey 1-0-1 after opening weekend
By: Sean Shapiro
Issue date: 10/13/08 Section: Sports
BG opened its season this weekend with a pair of hard-fought games, earning a win over the Rochester Institute of Technology Tigers and settling for a tie with the Niagara Purple Eagles.
On Friday, RIT opened the scoring early as Dan Ringwald beat BG junior goaltender Jimmy Spratt on the power play with a shot from the slot 3:53 into the game.
The Tigers pushed their lead to two later in the period as RIT's Brennan Sarazin stole the puck, froze Spratt with a deke and found his teammate Bobby Raymond wide open with an empty net. Raymond easily scored a shorthanded goal.
"It wasn't the start that we wanted to get off to, but we put it behind ourselves and moved on and we had a pretty good next two and a half periods," Spratt said.
In the second, BG got a power play goal of their own as senior Brandon Svendson was credited with tipping sophomore Dan Sexton's shot past RIT's Louis Menard. The Falcons' power play success continued a little over eight minutes later when junior Kai Kantola scored on a breakaway.
"The second period we were all over them, and I think it took a couple real good shifts in the second to start off and get us going," Sexton said. "After that we got a couple nice power play goals and we used that momentum to get us through the rest of the period and the rest of the game."
Kantola put the puck in the net again later in the second as he tipped senior Tim Maxwell's up under the cross bar for the game's first even-strength goal and BG's first lead of the night.
After Kantola's second marker, neither team was able to score until Svendson's empty net goal with three seconds remaining in the game.
In the 4-2 win the Falcons outshot the Tigers, 31-28, as both goalies had a strong night. Spratt was the difference maker for BG in the second period when he stopped all 15 shots he faced as BG scored three goals on the RIT net.
Following an opening night win against RIT BG hosted Niagara Saturday evening.
On Friday, RIT opened the scoring early as Dan Ringwald beat BG junior goaltender Jimmy Spratt on the power play with a shot from the slot 3:53 into the game.
The Tigers pushed their lead to two later in the period as RIT's Brennan Sarazin stole the puck, froze Spratt with a deke and found his teammate Bobby Raymond wide open with an empty net. Raymond easily scored a shorthanded goal.
"It wasn't the start that we wanted to get off to, but we put it behind ourselves and moved on and we had a pretty good next two and a half periods," Spratt said.
In the second, BG got a power play goal of their own as senior Brandon Svendson was credited with tipping sophomore Dan Sexton's shot past RIT's Louis Menard. The Falcons' power play success continued a little over eight minutes later when junior Kai Kantola scored on a breakaway.
"The second period we were all over them, and I think it took a couple real good shifts in the second to start off and get us going," Sexton said. "After that we got a couple nice power play goals and we used that momentum to get us through the rest of the period and the rest of the game."
Kantola put the puck in the net again later in the second as he tipped senior Tim Maxwell's up under the cross bar for the game's first even-strength goal and BG's first lead of the night.
After Kantola's second marker, neither team was able to score until Svendson's empty net goal with three seconds remaining in the game.
In the 4-2 win the Falcons outshot the Tigers, 31-28, as both goalies had a strong night. Spratt was the difference maker for BG in the second period when he stopped all 15 shots he faced as BG scored three goals on the RIT net.
Following an opening night win against RIT BG hosted Niagara Saturday evening.
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