G'day,
Conference play is finally here and Saturday's game was a clear sign on that. NYIT defeated the Dowling Golden Lions at Presidents Stadium 9-8. We held off a furious comeback from Dowling to take a crucial first conference victory and stay undefeated.
Austin Carino scored the first goal of the game off of a feed from Jeremy Hobson but Dowling answered to level the score at 1-1. We scored 4 straight goals including one more from Carino, two from Henderson and the fourth from close defenseman Andrew Maurer, his first since transferring to NYIT. We ended the first quarter 5-1 and kept the foot on the peddle scoring 2 more goals before half time while holding Dowling's explosive offense to just 2 goals. We felt good going into half time up by 5 goals but also knew that Dowling could erupt at any time and after 10 minutes of scoreless action to start the third that's exactly what happened. After Matt Ryan scored to put the Bears up 8-3 Dowling rattled off 5 straight goals to tie the game with 7:45 remaining in the 4th quarter. After just under seven minutes of up and down action with both teams squandering good scoring opportunities Matt Sullivan drove to the cage from behind and snuck the ball over the Dowling goalie's shoulder with just 57 seconds left for the eventual game winner.
MVP of the game was Chris Powers who once again stepped up in the clutch making numerous one on one saves and knocking back many scoring opportunities from the relentless Dowling offense. To Dowling's credit they pushed us to the limit all day and never let us put the game away. Our main focus on defense was to hold their big scorers to low point totals. Canadians Kyle O'Brien and John McClure gave us all we could handle and we were lucky to come out on top.
The game gave us a good indication that we are not at the level of play we want/need to be. We have yet another tough conference battle this upcoming Saturday against Molloy so we need to make some improvements over this week. Our practice today focused on quick tempo and conditioning. It was a very positive,efficient practice so with a good week of practice we should be ready to take on the Molloy Lions.I will report on that game soon after Saturday. Until then take care.....
-Rob
Conference play is finally here and Saturday's game was a clear sign on that. NYIT defeated the Dowling Golden Lions at Presidents Stadium 9-8. We held off a furious comeback from Dowling to take a crucial first conference victory and stay undefeated.
Austin Carino scored the first goal of the game off of a feed from Jeremy Hobson but Dowling answered to level the score at 1-1. We scored 4 straight goals including one more from Carino, two from Henderson and the fourth from close defenseman Andrew Maurer, his first since transferring to NYIT. We ended the first quarter 5-1 and kept the foot on the peddle scoring 2 more goals before half time while holding Dowling's explosive offense to just 2 goals. We felt good going into half time up by 5 goals but also knew that Dowling could erupt at any time and after 10 minutes of scoreless action to start the third that's exactly what happened. After Matt Ryan scored to put the Bears up 8-3 Dowling rattled off 5 straight goals to tie the game with 7:45 remaining in the 4th quarter. After just under seven minutes of up and down action with both teams squandering good scoring opportunities Matt Sullivan drove to the cage from behind and snuck the ball over the Dowling goalie's shoulder with just 57 seconds left for the eventual game winner.
MVP of the game was Chris Powers who once again stepped up in the clutch making numerous one on one saves and knocking back many scoring opportunities from the relentless Dowling offense. To Dowling's credit they pushed us to the limit all day and never let us put the game away. Our main focus on defense was to hold their big scorers to low point totals. Canadians Kyle O'Brien and John McClure gave us all we could handle and we were lucky to come out on top.
The game gave us a good indication that we are not at the level of play we want/need to be. We have yet another tough conference battle this upcoming Saturday against Molloy so we need to make some improvements over this week. Our practice today focused on quick tempo and conditioning. It was a very positive,efficient practice so with a good week of practice we should be ready to take on the Molloy Lions.I will report on that game soon after Saturday. Until then take care.....
-Rob
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