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D-I

BEARS vs BEARS

#8 YALE (Jake Cohen) 20

DARTMOUTH (Will Cohen, Cameron Brown, Zak Oehlerking) 13

Not just a brotherly Bears versus Bears game, but a Brother versus Brother game as Will and JakeCohen have their first collegiate clash.

Dartmouth appeared to be heading towards a big upset in the first half, twice leading by five.  Yale finished the first half with a pair of goals to cut Big Green’s lead to three, then took over the game in the second half with twelve goals in a row.  Dartmouth stopped that huge run with a pair of goals after which each team scored once before the final horn sounded.

Both Will and Jake played in the game and Will got a measure of bragging rights with a goal while Jake can call “scoreboard” with the Bulldogs’ win.  In addition to his goal, Will caused a turnover and picked up two ground balls.  Cameron got off a shot and scooped up a ground ball for Dartmouth,

#14 PENN (Stephen Bou) 15

#15 HARVARD (Joey Graham) 12

No lead was safe in this Ivy League match.  Penn ran off three straight scores in the middle of the first quarter to take a two-goal lead.  Harvard took the lead back with four in a row and had a two-goal advantage at the end of the first quarter.  Penn started the scoring for the second quarter, cutting Harvard’s lead to one, but the Crimson managed to net three straight to go up by four. Penn halved that with the last two scores of the first half.  The Quakers owned the third quarter and flipped the scoreboard with four unanswered goals.  Penn extended their lead with the first goal of the fourth quarter, but Harvard rallied back in the middle of the quarter and tied the game at twelve all.  However, the last scoring run of the day was reserved for the Quakers who scored three times in the last five minutes of the game.

Joey put one shot on goal for Harvard.

OTHER GAMES

#7 DENVER (Ryan Giles) 10

#6 Georgetown 8

Denver’s win over Georgetown snapped the Pioneers’ six-game losing streak against the Hoyas and put them at top of the Big East standings.

Georgetown edged out to a two-goal lead in the first half and maintained that lead through the third quarter and into the fourth.  Midway through the fourth quarter, Denver put together the only substantial scoring run for either team, scoring the final four goals of the game to flip their two-goal deficit into a two-goal lead.

Ryan collected a pair of ground balls for Denver.

Hobart (Jackson Galiani) 7

#19 Saint Joseph’s 12

Hobart fell behind early as Saint Joe’s scored the game’s first five goals.  The Statesmen managed to whittle Saint Joseph’s lead down to three goals in the second quarter, but the Hawks scored twice before the end of the half and then earned the first goal of the second half to go back up by six.

MICHIGAN (Hunter Taylor, Graham Hertzberg) 8

#11 Penn State 14

Big Blue had back-to-back goals but once while the Nittany Lions managed that feat twice in addition to a run of three in the first half and four in the second.  Michigan outshot Penn State, but three-fourths of their shots on goal were denied by the Penn State goalie.

Hunter made eleven saves in the game and collected two ground balls.

NAVY (JT Thomas III, Preston Lugar) 8

#12 Army 13

A few short weeks ago, Army was the last of the undefeated teams in D-I and sitting at the top of the polls.  After losing two of their last three, Army had come back to the pack in the Patriot League where six teams of the league’s nine teams are tied for first with 4-2 records in league play.

Regardless of records, clashes between Navy and Army seem to mean more than just a regular season league match.  Powered by two three-goal runs in the first half, Army grabbed a five-goal lead midway through the second quarter.  Navy then went on a scoring tear, netting four straight to finish out the half and trail by one at the break.  After a scoreless third quarter, the Midshipmen tied the game up early in the fourth.  Just over a minute later, Army launched a five-goal run that put the game out of reach. 

OHIO STATE (Cullen Brown) 10 OT

#5 Johns Hopkins 11

With first half runs of three and five goals wrapped around a pair of Blue Jay goals, the Buckeyes held an early 7-2 advantage.  With the last two goals of the first half and the first goal of the second half, Johns Hopkins managed to pull within two.  Ohio State netted two goals to extend their lead back out to four late in the third quarter.  Hopkins capped off the third quarter with a single goal then got the lead in the fourth with a burst of four goals in a row.  The Buckeyes turned a man-up opportunity into the tying goal with less than two minutes left in regulation.

In overtime, Ohio State controlled the ball and took three shots during an extended possession.  The Blue Jays then forced a turnover and finished the game with the first shot of their possession.

Cullen covered three ground balls for Ohio State.

#8 YALE (Jake Cohen) 18

#16 Boston University 16

The Terriers shot often, taking nearly twice as many shots as Yale, but not very accurately.  Still, they had an advantage in that statistic as well, so it was up to Yale’s goalie to save the day. While he saved just under half of BU shots on goal, the Eli’s goalie clearly had the better day with Boston U’s goalie stopping a mere quarter of Yale’s shots on goal. 

Yale took the lead in the first quarter, the teams swapped three-goal runs.  The Terriers failed to complete their second such iteration, and Yale extended their lead with the first two goals of the second quarter.  Boston U tied the game with a run of four in the second quarter, but Yale closed out the half with their own run of four to lead 12-8 at the break.  Three Terrier goals at the start of the second half made it a one-goal contest less than three minutes into the half.  Yale halted the BU comeback with a single goal then the teams matched each other score for score across the balance of the game.

USILA TOP TWENTY (4/15)

1. Notre Dame

2. Duke

3. Johns Hopkins

4. Virginia

5. Maryland

6. Denver

7. Syracuse

8. Cornell

9. Yale

10. Penn State

11. Georgetown

12. Army

13. Penn

14. Richmond

15. Saint Joseph’s

16. Towson

17. Princeton

18. Delaware

19. Harvard

20. Air Force

THIS COMING WEEK

Big Ten Bears vs. Bears MICHIGAN (Hunter Taylor, Graham Hertzberg) faces OHIO STATE (Cullen Brown).

D-III

HIGHLIGHTS

Quinn Coughlin, Ohio Wesleyan scored his first collegiate goal.

Anthony Savoy’s Denison team scored 72 goals in three games this week.

BEARS vs BEARS

#12 BOWDOIN (Nico Schermer) 25

COLBY (Colin Flood) 5

The Mules were limited to one goal at a time while Bowdoin produced four good scoring runs—two runs of four goals each, a first half run of eight and a second half run of nine.  Colby got their only back-to-back scores in the closing minutes of the game.

Colin saw playing time for Colby.

THIS WEEK’S GAMES

#16 AMHERST (Nicholas Kopp, Oscar Smink) 14

Connecticut College 8

Amherst led by one at the halftime break the took over the game in the third quarter.  Connecticut College scored first to start the second half, then Amherst netted three straight.  The Camels stopped that run with a goal, but the Mammoths went on repeat and notched another set of three.  In the final period, the teams fought to a draw. 

Nicholas scored the final goal of the game.  He also won fifteen of twenty-six faceoffs, scooped up eight ground balls and caused a turnover.

#16 AMHERST (Nicholas Kopp, Oscar Smink) 18

Bates 9

Amherst took the game over in the second quarter, launching an eight-goal run that lasted into the final minutes of the third quarter. 

Nicholas assisted on the Mammoths’ first and last goals and won sixteen of twenty-five faceoffs.  Oscar also played in this game.

#12 BOWDOIN (Nico Schermer) 14

Williams 6

Bowdoin and Williams matched each other in shooting, each put twenty shots on goal, but the Polar Bears’ goalie was a wall and the Willams goalie, a comparative sieve.  The Polar Bears limited Williams to one goal in each odd numbered quarter and two in each of the even numbered quarters. 

Bowdoin sits at the top of the NESCAC standings with a perfect 8-0 record.

COLBY (Colin Flood) 7

Trinity 11

The Bantams ran out to a five-goal lead with the game’s first five scores.  Colby managed to trim that lead back over the balance of the first half and trailed by a single goal at the halftime break.  Trinity reinforced their lead with the first two goals of the second half and did not allow successive goals to the Mules for the rest of the game.

DENISON (Anthony Savoy) 28

Hiram 1

Hiram’s lone score came late in the first quarter after Denison had scored the first eight goals of the game.  After Hiram’s lonely goal, Denison scored another twenty. 

Anthony picked up another assist this week, took two shots (one of which was on goal) and got to two ground balls.

DENISON (Anthony Savoy) 24

Wittenberg 10

After an early bit of goal swapping, Denison got the lead for good with a four-goal run in the middle of the first quarter.  A pair of Wittenberg goals trimmed Denison’s lead down to two, but they rallied again, this time scoring six in a row to lead by eight.  Denison extended their lead in the second half with two three-goal runs and a set of five while holding Wittenberg five goals in the half.

Anthony played in this game.

DENISON (Anthony Savoy) 20

DePauw 10

Denison put this game away early, scoring ten first-quarter goals while surrendering just two to DePauw.  A slower pace of scoring in the second quarter initially favored DePauw slightly, but Denison kicked off a six-goal run with the last four goals of the quarter, then started off the third quarter with another pair.

Anthony had four ground balls in the game.

#5 DICKINSON (Will Single, Andrew Atkins) 16

McDaniel 5

Red Devil runs of seven and five goals, which were interrupted by a pair of McDaniel goals, lasted into the later minutes of the third quarter.  McDaniel scored once to stop the five-goal run, then Dickinson put in three straight to wrap up their scoring for the day.  Mc Daniel concluded play with two goals in the final thirty seconds.

Will scooped up one ground ball and Andrew covered two ground balls and won two of three faceoffs.

#5 DICKINSON (Will Single, Andrew Atkins) 11

#11 Swarthmore 12

This game was a showdown on the top two teams in the Centennial Conference.  Coming into the game, each team had suffered just one non-conference loss and were undefeated in conference play.  Dickinson has steadily risen into the upper echelon of the D-III rankings while Swarthmore had been moving up sharply the past few weeks.

Swarthmore had the early advantage with a pair of three-goal runs wrapped around the Red Devils’ first score of the day.  Dickinson got back into the game with four straight second quarter goals to cut Swarthmore’s lead to one.  Swarthmore notched one last goal just before the end of the half.  With the first two goals of the second half, Dickinson tied the game up at seven a side.  From there on out, each Swarthmore goal was countered by one from Dickinson.  Swarthmore scored with twelve seconds left in the game and Dickinson’s attempt to force another tie was blocked as the final buzzer sounded.

Will forced a turnover by creating a ground ball in the first quarter.

HAMPDEN-SYDNEY (Owen Hegadorn) 15

Bridgewater 9

Hampden-Sydney scored three goals in a mere eleven seconds of game time with a fifteen minute break for halftime between the second and third goals.  Those three goals were a part of a larger six goal run that saw the Tigers take control of a game that had been tied on five occasions in the first half.

OHIO WESLEYAN (Quinn Coughlan) 17

Wabash 4

The Battlin’ Bishops’ nine-goal run in the middle of the second half turned Ohio Wesleyan’s three-goal lead into a twelve-goal advantage and effectively decided the game. 

Quinn picked up his first NCAA D-III goal in the fourth quarter.

OHIO WESLEYAN (Quinn Coughlan) 14

Kenyon 9

Kenyon got the last goal of the first quarter, tying the game at three all.  Ohio Wesleyan shut out Kenyon in the second quarter while scoring four times and then increased their lead to five with the first goal of the third quarter.  Kenyon whittled away at the Bishops’ lead and came as close as three goals twice in the fourth quarter, but each time Ohio Wesleyan was able to take their lead back up to five.

#9 WASHINGTON & LEE (Will Bou, Will Abramson) 28

Averett 0

There were several other D-III shutouts the day this game was played, but this was the biggest one by several goals.

Will Bou won eleven of twelve faceoffs and scooped up nine ground balls and Will Abramson caused one turnover for the Generals.

D-III USILA POLL (4/15)

1. Salisbury

2. RIT

3. RPI

4. Tufts

5. Saint Lawrence

6. Swarthmore

7. Dickinson

8. Christopher Newport

9. Union

10. Washington & Lee

11. Babson

12. Bowdoin

13. Stevens

14. Wesleyan

15. Amherst

16. Lynchburg

17. Middlebury

18. Endicott

19. Gettysburg

20. Roanoke

THIS COMING WEEK

Bears vs. Bears: #12 BOWDOIN (Nico Schermer) versus #16 AMHERST (Nicholas Kopp, Oscar Smink)