Jimmies Pick Up Pair of Eastern Road Wins Against Top-25 Teams

From Jamestown Athletics

 

NEWARK, Del.– The seventh-ranked University of Jamestown men’s hockey team won both games of its east coast road trip, defeating No. 22 Stony Brook (N.Y.) University 3-1 Friday and No. 25 University of Delaware 6-0 on Saturday.

FRIDAY

Carter Johnson (SR/Meeteetse, Wyo.) gave the Jimmies a 1-0 lead at Stony Brook, scoring his first of the season on assist by Kole Christensson (FR/Calgary, Alberta) at 8:23 of the second period.

Christensson doubled UJ’s lead with his sixth of the year at 11:23 of the third, with the assist by Brandon Weare (FR/Calgary, Alberta). Stony Brook got on the board just 25 seconds later, and the score remained 2-1 until Greg Susinski (JR/Calgary, Alberta) added an empty-net goal with one second left for a 3-1 win. The goal was Susinski’s sixth of the season.

Weare stopped 35 of the 36 shots he faced between the pipes. The Jimmies outshot Stony Brook 42-36, including 19-9 in the second period.

SATURDAY

Six different players had goals as Jamestown blanked Delaware 6-0.

Brandon Weare made 30 saves in his third shutout of the season, all coming over his last four appearances. The Jimmie goaltender has won all four of those games while posting a 0.25 goals-against average.

Gage Thompson (SR/Valley City, N.D.)’s third of the season, assisted by Reid Wilson (JR/Castlegar, British Columbia), came at 9:09 of the first period to give UJ a 1-0 lead. Kole Christensson made it 2-0 Jamestown at 14:01 on assists by Brad Fortin (FR/Langley, British Columbia) and Carter Johnson.

Jordon Kromm (JR/Calgary, Alberta) extended the Jimmie lead to 3-0 with a second period goal, set up by Wilson, at 4:38.

Three goals in a span of four minutes and ten seconds broke the game open in the third. Carter Johnson from Wilson at 13:12, Philippe Lessard (SO/Edmonton, Alberta) from Greg Susinski at 16:49, and an unassisted goal by Jordan Baranesky (FR/Red Lake, Ontario) at 17:22 accounted for the Jamestown scoring in the final period.

Shots were 36-30 in favor of Jamestown while both teams went 0-for-2 on the power play.

UJ is back in action with a weekend series at Midland (Neb.) beginning on December 2 at 7:30 p.m.

 

(Originally published at https://www.jimmiepride.com/article/6848)