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Date: January 7, 2005
Contact: Bill Sodoma

 

Colby men's hockey defeats UMass-Boston

WATERVILLE, Maine --- The Colby College men's hockey team stayed unbeaten in the last eight games with a 6-1 victory over University of Massachusetts at Boston on Friday night at Alfond Arena.

Colby is 7-1-1 overall and 7-0-1 in the last eight games heading into Saturday's 4 p.m. home game with Babson College. UMass-Boston fell to 2-7.

Cory Ernst (Bridgewater, Nova Scotia) and Josh Reber (Edina, Minn.) both had one goal and two assists for the Mules, who had two goals in each period. First-year defensemen Arthur Fritch (South Boston, Mass.) added three assists on the first four goals of the game.

Reber and Joel Morash scored in the first period for Colby for a 2-0 lead. The Mules scored two goals (Jason Weigel and Patrick Slipp) in the final five minutes of the second period to put the game away.

Joel Morash (Liverpool, Nova Scotia) and Nick Bayley (Cambridge, Ontario) both had one goal and one assist for Colby. Greg Osborne (Stoughton, Mass.) had two assists.

Patrick Donlan (Norwell, Mass.) had the lone goal for the Beacons, who got 36 saves from Sean Bertoni (Franklin, Mass.).

Chris Ries (Pittsburgh, Pa.) made 16 saves for Colby in improving to 6-0-1 this year.

Colby 6, UMass-Boston 1

UMB 0#0#1------1

Colby 2#2#2------6

1st period

Colby: Josh Reber (Greg Osborne, Cory Ernst), 4:47

Colby: Joel Morash (Nick Bayley, Arthur Fritch), 17:20

2nd period

Colby: Jason Weigel (Josh Reber, Arthur Fritch), 15:32

Colby: Patrick Slipp (Arthur Fritch, Patrick Walsh), 17:42

3rd period

Colby: Cory Ernst (Greg Osborne, Josh Reber), 5:20

UMB: Patrick Donlan (Eric Olmstead, Jason McDonald), 11:23

Colby: Nick Bayley (Joel Morash, Cory Ernst), 15:46

Shots: UMass-Boston 17, Colby 42. Goalies: Sean Bertoni (UMB) 36 saves; Chris Ries (Colby) 16 saves.