CHARLESTOWN – The Endicott men’s ice hockey team edged Suffolk University, 3-2, on Saturday night in a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) matchup at Emmons Horrigan O’Neil Memorial Rink.
Joseph Slovak‘s (South Yarmouth, Mass.) third goal of the season midway through the second period (9:54) proved to be the game-winner as the Rams went on to score a pair of unanswered goals down the stretch – including a tally at the 19:12 mark of the third – before they ran out of time to complete their comeback attempt.
Before Slovak’s marker in the second, Tommy Besinger (Milton, Mass.) and Jack Musil (Hull, England) both found the back of the net for the Gulls at 16:35 and 17:13, respectively, in the first period.
Kevin Aldridge (Birmingham, Mich.) stopped 23 shots in the win (3-2-2), while Michael Levine (Clarendon Hill, Ill.) had 36 saves in the loss (2-2-1).
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Endicott owns a 2-0-1 record in the all-time series against Suffolk.
- Slovak potted his second-career game-winner in the second period of tonight’s contest.
- The Gulls have won three games in a row, while outscoring their opponents 11-6 during that span.
- Endicott is 3-1-2 on the road this season.
- The Gulls are 6-0-1 when Slovak scores (4-0-0 in 2015-16, 2-0-1 in 2016-17).
FOR THE FOES
- Danyil Medvedev (Boston, Mass.) and Tommy Bishop (Chelmsford, Mass.) both scored in tonight’s loss for the Rams.
- Medvedev also assisted on Bishop’s power play goal at 19:12 of the third to give him his first multi-point game of the season.
- Bishop leads Suffolk in goals this year with three total.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (3-2-2, 3-2-1 CCC) travels to Assumption College on Sunday, November 27 for a non-conference matchup at 4:35 p.m. Suffolk (2-4-1, 1-4-1 CCC) hosts Stonehill College next Tuesday at 7 p.m.
BABSON PARK, Mass. — The Endicott men’s basketball team secured an 86-56 season-opening victory over Anna Maria College Saturday afternoon inside Staake Gymnasium in non-conference neutral game action to begin the 2016-17 season as part of the Babson Tip-Off Tournament.
Endicott took a 32-27 lead into halftime before exploding for 54 points in the second half en route to a 30-point victory — the team’s third highest margin of victory in a season opener in program history.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Endicott is now 12-11 in season openers in the team’s 23-year program history, as the Gulls have won the past five games to begin a season.
- The Gulls scored 51 points at Lesley to begin the 2014-15 season on 11/18/14 and 31 points also against Lesley to begin the 2008-9 season.
- The Gulls placed five student athletes in double figures, as senior guard Kamahl Walker (Worcester, Mass.) led the way with a game-high 22 points.
- Sophomore guard Joe Shehadi (Dorset, Vt.) and senior guard Stephen Basden (Lynn, Mass.) each chipped in 12 points, while senior forward Daquan Sampson (Germantown, Md.) and sophomore guard Vinny Clifford (Danvers, Mass.) netted 11 points apiece.
- 12 points is a new career-high for Shehadi, while Clifford tied his career-high with 11.
- Sampson also grabbed a team-high eight rebounds.
- Senior guard Max Motroni (West Warwick, R.I.) dished out a team-high four assists.
FOR THE FOES
- The AMCATS were led in scoring by junior guard Liam Pickett’s (Oxford, Mass.) 13 points, followed by senior guard David Jean-Louis’ (Miramar, Fla.) and freshman forward Mike Rapoza’s (Charlton, Mass.) 11 and 10 points, respectively.
- Rapoza earned his second double-double of the season as he also brought down a game-high 10 rebounds and had a game-high five assists.
NOTES
- The Gulls are 3-0 in season openers in head coach Kevin Bettencourt’s third season at the helm.
- Endicott is 12-4 against Anna Maria in the all-time series.
- Anna Maria won, 86-66, in the most recent meeting before today on 01/19/11 in Paxton, Mass.
- The Gulls are also receiving the most votes in the D3Hoops Top 25 Preseason Poll for a team not ranked.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (1-0, 0-0 CCC) takes on No. 3 nationally-ranked Babson College on Sunday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m. to wrap up the Babson Tip-Off Tournament.
Anna Maria (0-3, 0-0 GNAC) will host No. 1 nationally-ranked Amherst on Monday, November 21 at 5:30 p.m.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — The Endicott women’s basketball team was defeated, 72-60, at the hands of the Keene St. College Owls Saturday afternoon inside the Williamson Center in non-conference neutral game action in the 40th annual Skidmore College Invitational.
Endicott jumped out to a six-point lead — its largest of the game — before Keene St. went on a 7-0 run and took a 19-13 advantage heading into the second quarter and led, 35-26, at halftime.
The Gulls out-scored Owls, 24-16, in the third quarter, for Endicott’s highest-scoring quarter this season, to cut the deficit to one (51-50) heading into the final quarter of play.
Endicott trailed, 53-52, with 6:49 to play, but a strong fourth quarter from junior guard Lydia Vital (Cambridge, Mass.) and the Owls shut the door on the comeback effort.
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- Junior forward Hannah Shaw (Bar Harbor, Maine) led the way with a team-high/season-high 19 points.
- Shaw earned her first double-double of the season (sixth career) as she grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds and game-high three steals.
- Shaw has led the Gulls in scoring in each of the first three games this season.
- Junior guard Hannah Kiernan (Wenham, Mass.) added 12 points for the second time this season.
- Endicott out-rebounded the Owls, 39-37.
- The Gulls held a six-point lead with 8:09 remaining in the first quarter for their largest lead of the game.
FOR THE FOES
- The Owls placed three student-athletes in double figures, as junior guard Sandi Purcell (Hudson, N.H.) scored a game-high 24 points.
- Vital and sophomore guard Emily McPadden (Tyngsborough, Mass.) added 19 and 11 points, respectively.
- Vital registered a game-high 11 points in the fourth quarter alone for the most points scored one student-athlete in a single quarter today.
- Senior forward Amanda Petrow (Methuen, Mass.) grabbed a team-high seven rebounds.
- Keene St. recorded 23 points off turnovers to Endicott’s 11.
NOTES
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Endicott is 1-7 in the all-time series versus Keene St., as the Owls won, 72-62, in the most recent meeting before today in the ECAC New England Semifinals last season on 03/05/16.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott (0-3, 0-0 CCC) and Keene St. (2-1, 0-0 LEC) will meet again on Tuesday, November 22 at 5:00 p.m. in Keene, N.H.
WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY
REISTERTOWN, Md. – In the second matchup of the season against Stevenson in a rematch of last year’s Colonial Hockey Conference (CHC) championship, Endicott stormed back from a 2-0 deficit to win 3-2. With the win, Endicott remains undefeated at 7-0-0 (6-0-0 CHC) as the Gulls are now off until December 3.
With 20 seconds remaining in the third, Endicott’s Ellen Carter (Roseville, Minn.) posted her first goal of the season on a wrister from the left wing. Carter took a feed from Meaghan Farragher (Bridgewater, Mass.) and beat the Stevenson netminder to notch the first game-winning goal of the defender’s career.
The victory gave Endicott the sweep of the two game series as Endicott defeated Stevenson 4-0 on Friday behind a shutout effort from Vendela Jonsson (Linkoping, Sweden). Jonsson made 24 saves in the victory on Saturday on 26 shots as she ran her record to 5-0-0 on the season. In the two game series, the sophomore goalie made 56 saves on 58 shots.
Stevenson jumped ahead early and held a 2-0 lead at the first intermission following goals from Allyson Barlow (Painsville, Ohio) and Chelsea Blackburn (Westland, Mich.). Barlow potted her first of the season just 2:08 into the contest before Blackburn closed the scoring in the opening period with just under eight minutes to go. The Mustangs held the edge in shots, 12-7, as Jonsson made 10 saves in the first to keep the Gulls in it.
Endicott Cally Chase (North Reading, Mass.) would get the visitors on the board in the second as Caroline Hughes (Andover, Mass.) found the freshman for her first collegiate goal just 1:28 into play. While the goal would be the only offense between the two squads in the second, the Gulls had turned the tide offensively and held a 12-5 advantage in shots.
Trailing 2-1 entering the third period, the Gulls offense would continue to hold the upperhand as Hughes would record her third goal of the season just over eight minutes into play to even the score at 2-2. Hughes was assisted by Rachel Lustenring (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) on the goal.
The Gulls would then capture the contest with just 20 seconds remaining in the period off Carter’s first game winner while donning the Blue and Green to complete the road sweep.
BEYOND THE BOX
- Lustenring’s assist gives her four on the season, which is tops for the Gulls.
- Hughes recorded a goal and an assist for the second straight night against Stevenson.
- Carter’s game winner, her first goal of the season, was her second career goal as she had last scored in the first ever varsity contest for the Gulls, a 2-0 win over Plymouth State.
- Farragher’s assist was her first point of the season as the sophomore is now tied with Teneal Perry (Halifax, Nova Scotia) for the team lead in +/- at +7.
- Jonsson would go on to make 14 saves combined in the second and third after 10 in the first period for a total of 24 on the evening.
FOR THE FOES
- Blackburn’s goal was her sixth of the young season as she is the only Mustang to have recorded multiple goals at this point.
- The junior was assisted on the goal by Monica Pozuc (Kent, Ohio) and Jordan Pirello (Toms River, N.J.). For Pozuc, the assist was her fourth of the season while it was the second for Pirello.
- Annie Smyth-Hammond (Marstons Mills, Mass.) fell to 2-2 on the season after making 33 saves 36 shots.
WHAT’S NEXT
Endicott will break for Thanksgiving and get back to action on Saturday, December 3 when the Gulls host St. Michael’s at 5:00 p.m., before hosting William & Smith on Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Stevenson is off until Friday, December 2 when they travel to New York, N.Y. to take on Johnson & Wales (R.I.), and Manhattanville on Saturday.
