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Late Borza Goal Lifts Men's Hockey to 4-4 Tie at St. Lawrence
February 04, 2005 | Men's Ice Hockey
Feb. 4, 2005
Box Score
Canton, N.Y. - Junior Sebastian Borza pounded home a rebound with four minutes left in regulation to lift the Princeton men's hockey team to a 4-4 tie at St. Lawrence in ECAC Hockey League action Friday night at Appleton Arena. Junior Dustin Sproat had a goal and an assist while junior Eric Leroux made 42 saves in the Tiger net.
Princeton snapped a two-game overall winless streak and a seven-game league winless streak, and is now 6-14-2 on the season and 4-10-1 in the ECACHL. St. Lawrence is now 13-12-2 and 7-7-1 in ECACHL play. The two teams combined for 49 shots on goal through the first two periods, but it was a goaltending show as the game was knotted at 1-1 in a fast-paced and entertaining game.
Princeton opened the scoring with the only goal of the first period, which came at 13:47. The goal came on the power play off the stick of junior Patrick Neundorfer. After receiving the puck from sophomore Grant Goeckner-Zoeller, Sproat took a shot on net that Neundorfer deflected in the slot just enough to point it to the left of St. Lawrence goaltender Mike McKenna and into the Saint net for his ninth goal of the season and his second in as many games. It was also his 20th point of the season.
St. Lawrence fought back to even the score at 1-1 at the 6:57 mark of the second period. Colin FitzRandolph got the puck over a Tiger defensive turnover and fed Mike Zbriger alone in the slot and he one-timed it by Leroux.
St. Lawrence outshot the Tigers 32-17 through two periods, but the game was knotted at one entering the third frame.
After 40 minutes of a lot of shots, but few goals, the third period started with a scoring explosion as the two teams combined for four goals in a 3:34 span beginning with junior Mark Masters second goal of the year 1:26 into the period. The goal resulted from strong work behind the net by freshman Keith Shattenkirk. He worked it to the corner to freshman Landis Stankievech who found Masters in front who whipped it by McKenna.
St. Lawrence's T.J. Trevelyan responded 2:10 later with two goals in 11 seconds to give St. Lawrence a 3-2 lead, its first of the night. The first came on a rebound at 3:36 and the second came at 3:47.
Dustin Sproat capped the early-third scoring flurry 1:03 later when he tallied his 14th of the season. The goal, which came at 4:50, was score don a breakaway after Leroux kicked out a St. Lawrence shot. The big rebound bounced into the neutral zone where Sproat picked it up and went in alone on McKenna and scored. Sproat, the team and league-scoring leader, now has 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points on the season. Leroux's assist was the first point of his career.
Trevelyan gave St. Lawrence the 4-3 lead at the 10-minute mark when he completed his hat trick. The goal came as he flung the puck at the net and may have deflected on its way in.
St. Lawrence held the 4-3 lead late, but in similar fashion to the Saints' comeback in early January at Princeton, the Tigers were able to draw even with exactly four minutes remaining when Borza scored his fifth of the season. Senior Luc Paquin began the play with a nice play at the blueline to keep the puck in the zone and senior Neil Stevenson-Moore did the dirty work behind the net to throw it in front, where Borza had a few swats at it before shoving it by McKenna. Junior Darroll Powe assisted on the goal.
Neither team scored in a wide-open overtime, which included four, saves for Leroux, who finished with 42 for the night, and three for McKenna, who made 29 stops in the game. Princeton's best overtime scoring chance came off the stick of junior Seamus Young, who had two point blasts in a flurry of action.
Princeton returns to action tomorrow just down the road when the Tigersd skate at Clarkson. The puck will drop at 7 p.m.