HOCKEY: Dutchmen ice Irish with 7-4 weekend win
MATT ORENCHUK
Sports Writer
Just when things were looking up for the members of the Irish hockey team, they found themselves back at the bottom. Euphoria struck when Notre Dame forged a 3-2 lead against Union College in the third period thanks to Rob Globke's rare penalty shot goal. But it didn't last long as Notre Dame gave up three goals late in the third to give Union College the 7-4 win.
The Irish dropped their second straight game to open the season 0-2.
"We are going to have to battle through the adversity," said Irish head coach Dave Poulin. "[Union College] is a very hard working team that simply outplayed us."
The third period saw a close game turn into a goal-scoring festival as the Irish and the Dutchmen combined for seven goals.
Globke started the scoring when he received a nice pass that split two Union defenders. Globke had a clear shot at the goal, was hooked from behind but still managed to fake out Union's goalie Brandon Snee and stuff the puck in the left side for the Irish goal. Union quickly answered to even the game at 3. A Globke shorthanded goal tied the game at 4 at the 9:44 mark.
From that point it was all Union. A defensive breakdown on the penalty kill gave for the opportunity to put the Dutchmen ahead. His goal at the 10:20 mark of the third put Union ahead 5-4. The Dutchmen would add two goals late to round out the scoring.
Notre Dame played the first period Friday night in the same spirit as the third period of Thursday's game.
In that game the Irish started slow, but turned up the offensive pressure in the third period against the Dutchmen. In Friday's game the Irish out-shot the Dutchmen 10-4 in the first period with their first goal coming at 11:41.
Irish junior Jake Wiegand was sitting in the right corner of the Union zone when he centered a pass out in front of the Union goal. Tom Galvin was able to deflect the pass past Union goalie Brandon Snee for the first Irish score of the night.
In the second period the ref's whistle came out. The teams combined for nine penalties, including a five-minute major by Notre Dame.
"Once again key people took penalties for us," Poulin said.
Union tied the game at one five minutes into the period when Jordy Federko zipped a wrist shot past Cey. The tie only held for two minutes.
Notre Dame went on the power play after Union's Jason Kean was called for tripping.
The Irish responded with their first power play goal of the year. David Inman was able to flip the puck past Snee for the go-ahead goal 7:33 into the period. 50 seconds later Union came back to tie the game.
Connor Dunlop was sitting in the penalty box serving a five-minute major for holding, when the Skating Dutchmen's Doug Christiansen was able to fire the puck past an out of position Cey to tie the game at two. The rest of the second was penalty kill after penalty kill and the teams re-entered the locker room tied at two.
The Irish open up CCHA play next weekend at Ohio State in Columbus.
"We have got to go back to work," said Poulin. "We have six straight road games coming up, so we have our work cut out for us."
All Sports Stories for Monday, October 15, 2001
