Box Score
BOSTON, Mass.—Junior Billy Faust (Alta Loma, Calif.) and senior Zach Arnold combined for 64 saves to force a 1-1 tie between #7/8 UMass Boston Men's Hockey (10-1-1) and Hamilton College (3-4-3) in the 50th Annual Codfish Bowl Tournament Consolation Game.
Faust made 23 saves for the Beacons, including a pair of point-blank saves in the final minute of overtime, to help the Beacons avoid their first two-game losing streak since November 18-19.
On the other side, Arnold stopped 41 of 42 shots in a homecoming for the Concord, Mass. Product. He stopped 10 or more shots in all three periods, including all 18 in the final stanza, when the Beacons outshot the Continentals 18-3.
For his strong play, Arnold was named to the Codfish Bowl All-Tournament Team, alongside UMass Boston forward Peter MacIntyre (Norfolk, Mass.).
MacIntyre scored the Beacons' lone goal of the contest, 6:17 after the Continentals had taken a 1-0 lead. The junior forward recorded a goal and an assist during the two-day tournament, a year after being named Tournament Most Outstanding Player.
Seniors Mike Kuhn (Holbrook, Mass.) and Stephen Buco (North Providence, R.I.) picked up assists on MacIntyre's tally.
Kuhn, the Beacons' senior captain, was named the Lawrence F. Curran Award winner. The award has been given out each year since 1983 in remembrance of Lawrence F. Curran, an former assistant coach and avid supporter of the program. Each year, the award is given to the player who best exemplifies true sportsmanship and competition over the course of the two-day tournament.
T.J. Daigler scored his second goal of the season off a tremendous feed from Scott Vasquez. Defenseman Conor Lamberti was also credited with an assist on the play.
Outside of the two goals that were separated by just six minutes and 17 seconds, the game was dominated by the two goaltenders.
Arnold made the first impressive stop of the afternoon, when he robbed Buco on a breakaway with a quick glove save just under eight minutes into the contest.
Hamilton grabbed a 1-0 lead 3:05 into the second period, when Daigler beat Faust just inside the far post, after executing a toe-drag to beat a Beacons' defender. Lamberti fed Vasquez, who broke through the neutral zone and found a charging Daigler to put the Beacons behind for a second-straight day.
UMass Boston ended their longest scoreless streak of the season (81:43), when MacIntyre capitalized on the power-play at 9:22. The Beacons created a series of chances, with Arnold robbing Kuhn from point-blank range, and stopping the second shot from Buco, before MacIntyre lifted a shot past Arnold who had his back to the puck.
The Beacons nearly took the lead on several occasions late in the third period, but Arnold made a series of saves, and Lamberti stepped in front of and blocked a MacIntyre shot from just outside the crease, with Arnold out of position.
After putting together a few great saves in the first three periods, Faust made his biggest plays of the day in the extra session. He just got a piece of a Truman Landowski deflection on a shot from the point, before covering up Scott Vazquez's backhand shot from just outside the crease.
The Beacons will need to turn things around quickly, as they travel to Kreitzberg Arena Friday night at 7 p.m. to take on #1/2 Norwich University in a key ECAC East showdown.
