The Official News Letter of PENN Men's Ice Hockey                                                                                            Issue #58, October 19, 2007

October 12, 2007
PENN 5
Columbia 2

October 6, 2007
PENN 5
Georgetown 6

NEWS AND NOTES

The Quakers are off to a slower than expected 1-3-1 start, but got things going in the right direction with the first win of the season last week over Columbia.

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Despite racking up an impressive amount of goals in the first few games of the season, Coach Brian Gallini and the Quakers started Friday’s home game against Columbia still winless with a record of 0-3-1.  

“We've spent a tremendous amount of time over the 2 weeks trying to beef up our defensive zone coverage in an effort to limit our opponent's shots, or at least the quality of those shots.” Coach Gallini said before Friday’s game.
 
Their work paid off.

The squad earned its fist victory of the season, trouncing the Columbia Lions 5-2, limiting Columbia’s shots to 20, and pelting the opposing goaltender with over 30.

The Quakers were in the penalty box early as Zack Kaplan was whistled for roughing. Being short-handed didn’t stop the Quakers from attacking. David Farber scored two goals while the Quakers were a man down and goaltender Berkeley Dietvorst put on a show, stopping several Columbia scoring chances, including an early two-on-one break, and the Quakers left the first period with a 2-0 lead.

Dietvorst kept it a two-goal game in the second when he stopped a Columbia player who gained the Quaker zone and took off with a full head of steam on a clean breakaway. Hal Mackenzie was a physical presence as he delivered a crushing open ice hit, and Jeff Greenberg followed up on a Nicolas Ryder shot to make it 3-0 going into the third.

Columbia crawled back to within 2 with a clever one-on-one move as a Columbia player beat a Penn defender and squeezed a quick shot past Dietvorst. Penn rebuilt their lead as Riley Tagtmeyer settled a loose puck and rifled a wrist-shot over the right shoulder of the Columbia goaltender to make the score 4-1. The Lions cut the deficit again, scoring from an odd angle after the Quakers failed to clear the puck, but Captain Jeff Greenberg added his second goal of the game late in the third to seal the victory for the home team.

Penn appeared to be the superior team from the outset as they controlled play with tape-to-tape passing while generating shots on net, but the Columbia goaltender played strong as he found ways to block most of what the Quakers threw at him.
 
“We should have poured it on even more against these guys,” Coach Gallini said after the game.

The Quakers will face more difficult competition over Homecoming weekend when they host back-to-back Friday and Saturday night games against Wagner College and William Paterson University, respectively.