Auburn ME,  In the last game before winter-break the Mustangs knew they needed a strong ending! After a disappointing lost against Colby the Mustangs came out flying in the 1^st period and got themselves off to a quick 2-0 lead by goals from Jack Keefe and Cody Ivey. The Monks would score on the powerplay to make it 2-1, but late in the period the Mustangs would get powerplay goals from Gabe Poirier and Evan Knowlton to go up 4-1 in the 1^st intermission.

 

The 2^nd period the Mustangs would once again come out flying and find 2 quick goals from Evan Knowlton and Cam Henderson to be up 6-1. The Monks would not give up and kept pressing and responded by scoring 2 goals to make the score 6-3 heading into the 2^nd intermission.

 

The 3^rd period the Mustangs needed a strong finish with the last 20 minutes of the 1^st Semester and Diego Alonso would score the 7-3 to give the Mustangs some energy back! Jason Melanson and Matt Poirier would score the 8 and 9^th goal after some pretty passing plays, making the final score 9-3!

 

Coach Knoren said'' Overall I am proud of the group in the 1^st half of the season, we have committed to playing a certain way and have bought into the systems, some individual mistakes or a couple minutes of bad play has cost us to lose some games that we had a chance to win.  Our objective for 2^nd semester is clear and I truly believe our group understands and will be ready to face some good competition coming up.  If we clean up the bad spells of giving up some easy goals we are going to be a dangerous team to beat down the stretch''

 

Men's Hockey will deserve a well needed break, and re-group early January to start the Michigan trip which will see them play 4 games in 5 days!

 

Thank you to all the fans for the support during the 1^st part of the season, and happy holidays!