SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - Juniors
Case Kantgias (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Northern Colorado Eagles) and
Brennan McFarland (Greeley, Colo./Northern Colorado Eagles) both netted three points to lift the Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team past Franklin Pierce University, 6-3, for a Northeast-10 Conference victory on Saturday in Cairns Arena.
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RECORDS
- Saint Michael's (5-1, 3-1 NE10), Franklin Pierce (3-3, 2-2 NE10)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
- Junior Case Kantgias (Bloomfield Hills, Mich./Northern Colorado Eagles), 2 goals, 1 assist
- Junior Brennan McFarland (Greeley, Colo./Northern Colorado Eagles), 2 goals, 1 assist
- Sophomore Jake Leale (Suffern, N.Y./Connecticut RoughRiders), 2 assists, 4 blocked shots
- Senior TJ Beaver (Enfield, N.H./Proctor Academy), 1 goal
- Junior David Ciancio (Scituate, R.I./Seahawks Hockey Club), 1 goal
- Senior Marshall Murphy (Little Canada, Minn./Northern Colorado Eagles), 25 saves
- Sophomore Jake Lincourt (Smithfield, R.I./Walpole Express), 9-for-16 faceoffs
- Sophomore Matti Tauriainen (Grapevine, Texas/Valley Jr. Warriors), 8-for-12 faceoffs
OPPONENT LEADERS
- Sophomore Austin Pick, 2 goals
- Sophomore Matthew Horan, 1 goal
- Junior Brogan McDonald, 10 saves in 29:03, loss
- First-year Max Banoun, 10 saves in 29:51 of relief
GAME FACTS
- Murphy picked up his 23rd career win, matching Bob Chancio '98 and Mike Dizgun '13 for fifth in program history.
- Saint Michael's is 15-5 during the 2023 calendar year.
- The Purple Knights held a 37-29 lead in faceoffs while being edged in shots, 28-26. Eight different players won at least one draw.
THE ACTION
- The Purple Knights broke the scoreless stalemate at 10:01 of the first period, as Lincourt won a draw directly to McFarland, who beat McDonald to his glove side from the left circle.
- Horan finished a two-man breakaway following a giveaway in the Saint Michael's zone only 1:33 later during 4-on-4 play.
- Beaver put the hosts in front to stay with a power-play strike from the blue line at 17:15, and Kantgias pushed the lead to 3-1 only 2:31 into the second period, scoring from the slot to the netminder's blocker side.
- Kantgias added another tally at 9:03, making two moves in his own end to elude Ravens before skating the length of the ice and again scoring from the slot.
- Pick sandwiched goals around a pair of Saint Michael's tallies over the final half of the game, first scoring from the left point during a power play at 13:51.
- Ciancio scored an extra-man, delayed-penalty marker 4:27 into the third, connecting from the left circle, before McFarland roofed a backhanded shot from out front with 12:30 gone.
- Pick snuck a shot inside the close post from the right circle at 18:14 for the final tally.
NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME
- Friday at Saint Anselm College, 7 p.m.
