Georgetown Hockey

UPDATE: Forfeiture to NC State.

Georgetown 6, NC State 3

On Saturday night, November 8, 2008, at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, the Georgetown Hoya Hockey Team earned an impressive 6-3 victory over the Wolfpack of North Carolina State University. It was a hard-fought come-from-behind victory for the Hoyas, who evened their record at 5-5 overall and now are 3-0 in the ACCHL.

The Hoyas were losing 3-1 with less than two minutes remaining in the second period, and then scored 5 unanswered goals to put the game in the win column. The Hoyas featured a well-balanced attack with major contributions from all three lines. Alex Yale-Loehr (Freshman-Ithaca, NY) gave the Hoyas a 1-0 lead midway through the first period on a beautiful wrap-around goal, assisted by Lukas Autenried (Freshman-Wallisellen, Switzerland) and Assistant Captain Brendan Surma (Senior-Pittsburgh, PA). After the Wolfpack tallied the next 3 goals to take a commanding 3-1 lead, Lukas Autenried scored for the Hoyas with 1:32 remaining in the second period by tipping in a shot from the point by Alex Yale-Loehr, assisted by Junior Captain Charlie Walsh (Jr-Cheshire, CT). The score then was 3-2 in favor of NC State going into the final period of action.

The Hoyas were “on fire” in the third period, outskating and outhustling the Wolfpack at every turn. John Ryder (Freshman-Cleveland, OH) got things started with a goal at the 14:55 mark to tie the game 3-3, assisted by Alex Yale-Loehr. With 7:35 remaining, Senior Captain Adam Willner (Montclair, NJ) fired a wrist shot into the upper corner of the net, assisted by Assistant Captain Peter Black (Senior-Bethesda, MD) and Dan Lechner (Jr-Rockville, MD), to give the Hoyas a 4-3 lead. Three minutes later, Justin McNamara (Soph-Wrentham, MA) gave the Hoyas a two-goal lead by firing a wrist shot past the Wolfpack goalie, assisted by a nice pass from behind the net by Will Peterson (Senior-Wayzata, MN). Finally, with two seconds left in the game, Alex Yale-Loehr scored his second goal of the game to secure the 6-3 victory, assisted by Lukas Autenried and John Ryder.

Clayton Kossl (Soph-Kinnelon, NJ) was awesome in goal, saving 33 of 36 shots. Others who contributed to the Hoyas victory were John Reppucci (Senior-Newburgport, MA), Ryan Murphy (Senior-Clifton Park, NY), Andrew Foley (Jr-New York, NY), Gus Thompson (Soph-New Canaan, CT), Alec Estey (Freshman, Toronto, Canada), Richie McGinniss (Freshman, New Canaan, CT), Fabian Fondriest (Freshman-Concord, MA), and Michael Sortwell (Freshman-St. Louis, MO).