River Hawks Hold Off Terriers, 6-4, to Force Game Three

Saturday, March 16

Lowell, MA

7 PM

Boston University

15-17-4

UMass Lowell

19-12-5

Boston University

UMass Lowell

Photo by: Matt Woolverton

River Hawks Hold Off Terriers, 6-4, to Force Game Three

March 16, 2019 | Men's Ice Hockey

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LOWELL, Mass. - The Boston University men's ice hockey team fell to UMass Lowell, 6-4, on Saturday evening in the second game of their Hockey East quarterfinal series at Tsongas Center.

After spotting the River Hawks a 3-0 lead after one, BU clawed back and got with one at 4-3 and then went in the locker room down 5-4 after two. Lowell scored early in the third and hung on to force a third game on Sunday.

Freshman Joel Farabee scored BU's final two goals while junior Patrick Curry and sophomore Cam Crotty also found the back of the net for the Terriers, who move to 15-17-4 on the season.

HOW IT HAPPENED

BU took the first penalty of the game and the River Hawks capitalized off a center-point shot by Chase Blackmun.
Later in the opening period, Lowell had a 5-on-3 power play for 55 seconds and bumped their lead to 2-0 at 11:32 just as the first penalty expired.
Just over a minute later, Kenny Hausinger gave the River Hawks a three-goal cushion with a high blocker side wrister from the top of the slot.
The Terriers' first power play of the night started in the final moments of the first and they cashed in on it later in the second on a redirect by Curry at the right post from an offering at the top of the zone by sophomore David Farrance.
Ryan Dmowski reestablished a three-goal goal lead for UMass Lowell at 3:28 of the middle stanza with his second goal of the game.
BU grabbed the momentum by scoring a delayed-penalty goal and then converting on the ensuing power play.
Crotty scored his second goal of the weekend at 7:49 with the extra attacker before Farabee sniped a shot to the back of the net on the power play just 43 seconds later to make it a 4-3 affair.
Reid Stefanson provided what would be the game-winner moments later to make the score 5-3 in the River Hawks' favor.
With the Terriers on the penalty kill, Farabee broke up a play at the top of the zone and went the distance, converting a shorthanded breakaway to make it 5-4 with 5:32 remaining the second.
Early the in third, Nick Master punched in a deflected puck by the right crease to give Lowell a 6-4 advantage and prevent the Terriers from carrying over their momentum from the second.

GAME NOTES

Farabee now leads all Hockey East players in shorthanded goals this season with three.
The Terriers held a 31-25 shot advantage.
Lowell went 3-for-5 on the power play while BU was 2-for-4 on the man advantage.
BU gave up as many power plays goals on Saturday than it had in its previous 15 games combined.
Junior Jake Oettinger made 19 saves while Tyler Wall turned aside 27 BU shots for Lowell.
This was only Oettinger's second loss in nine career starts in the Hockey East playoffs.

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