Georgetown 4, George Washington 1.

On Friday, January 15, 2010, at Ft. Dupont Ice Arena in Washington, DC, the Georgetown Hoya Hockey team defeated the Colonials of George Washington University 4-1, avenging an early season loss to GW.

GW scored the first goal of the game and was leading 1-0 with five minutes remaining in the first period. Thereafter, Hoya defenseman and co-captain Charlie Walsh (Sr-Cheshire, CT) ignited the Hoya's offense by scoring two power play goals on wrist shots from the point. Charlie's first goal, with 5:22 remaining in the first period, was assisted by Alex Yale-Loehr (Soph-Ithaca, NY) and Gus Thompson (Jr-New Canaan, CT). Charlie's second goal, midway into the second period, was assisted by Pete Owen (Freshman-Westwood, MA) and Gus Thompson.

Toward the end of the second period, the Hoyas gained a two-goal advantage on a beautiful, backhanded, breakaway shorthanded goal by Lukas Autenried (Soph-Wallisellen, Switzerland), assisted by Dan Lechner (Sr-Rockville, MD). Finally, with 7:42 remaining in the third period, Alex Yale-Loehr put the game out of reach by gaining control of the puck in the neutral zone, racing down the left side, and scoring on a strong move to the goal in heavy traffic.

Meanwhile, the Hoya defense was solid the entire game, holding GW to 15 shots on goal, and only 4 in the final period. The Hoya defense was anchored by Charlie Walsh, Gus Thompson, Charlie Beller (Jr-Chappaqua, NY), Richie McGinniss (Soph-New Canaan, CT), Alec Estey (Soph-Toronto, Canada), and Pete Bourneuf (Soph-Boston, MA). Greg Graham (Sr-Downingtown, PA), was stellar in goal, holding to one goal a GW squad that defeated the Hoyas 5-1 in the second game of the season.