SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey team was tied until the late stages of a 4-1 loss to Northeast-10 Conference foe Saint Anselm College on Tuesday at Cairns Arena.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (9-5-2, 5-3 NE10), Saint Anselm (6-6-1, 5-3 NE10)

SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Sophomore Ty Bloom (Helena, Mont./Helena Bighorns), 1 goal, 11-for-17 faceoffs
• Senior Ryland Dukes (Nashville, Tenn./Walpole Express), 1 assist
• Junior Ashton Allain (Brentwood, Tenn./Walpole Express), 1 assist
• Senior Jack Macdonald (Baraboo, Wis./Seahawks Hockey Club), 8-for-17 faceoffs
• First-year Evan Plunkett (Charlotte, N.C./Holderness School), 28 saves
• Senior David Ciancio (Scituate, R.I./Seahawks Hockey Club), 5 blocked shots
• Junior Jake Leale (Suffern, N.Y./Connecticut RoughRiders), 3 blocked shots

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Senior Max Burum, 1 goal, 1 assist, 17-for-23 faceoffs
• Senior Luke Mix, 2 assists
• Junior Luke Linart, 2 assists
• Junior Hunter Brackett, 1 goal
• Junior John Myers, 1 goal
• Sophomore Patrick DeMarinis, 1 goal
• Sophomore Cam Carroll, 27 saves

THE ACTION

• In the late stages of a scoreless opening period, sophomore Ben Baxter (Hyannis, Mass./Seahawks Hockey Club) batted a puck out of the air in neutral ice to gain possession before zooming into the right circle and taking a shot Carroll saved with 16:38 gone.
• Only 18 seconds later, junior Nick Wracker (Columbia, S.C./Northeast Generals) crashed the net to redirect Baxter's pass from behind the net into the netminder.
• Sixteen seconds into the second period, Myers put home a rebound of a shot by Linart that Plunkett had pushed away.
• The Purple Knights drew even at 2:11, as Dukes' pass up the boards awkwardly redirected off of the glass to Bloom, who went 1-on-1 with a defender before finishing his shorthanded bid to Carroll's blocker side.
• At 7:46, Brackett had a bid denied by Plunkett's blocker, with the rebound bouncing toward a vacated left side of the net before first-year defender Cole Douglas (Pittsburgh, Pa./Shady Side Academy) swept the puck out of danger.
• Near the end of a five-minute power play in the third period, Ciancio's slap shot from the blue line was snared by Carroll's glove save at 8:43, keeping the teams tied.
• Saint Anselm scored three times in a late 4:16 stretch to snap the deadlock and pull away. Brackett netted the game-winner at 15:16, toe dragging in the slot before finishing a power-play strike.
• At 17:29, DeMarinis batted a rebound out of the air near the right post to make it 3-1 before Burum tallied a shorthanded goal on an empty net with exactly one minute remaining.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Friday at Assumption University, 6:10 p.m.