EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (February 3, 2023)- For the second time this season, the Stonehill College men's ice hockey team and Long Island University Sharks met for a Division I matchup. However, it was the Sharks who prevailed Friday as they topped the Skyhawks, 9-3.

Scoring

LIU: Patricks Marcinkevics (Riley Wallack and Adam Goodsir), 04:45-1st period

       Cade Mason (Nolan Welsh), 05:35-1st period

       Nolan Welsh (Jack Quinn and Austin Rook), 16:03-1st period

       Josh Zary (Cade Mason and Jordan DiCicco), 03:24-2nd period

       Austin Rook (Spencer Cox and Austin Brimmer), 05:04-2nd period

       Jack Quinn (Nolan Welsh and Valtteri Piironen), 04:31-3rd period

       Riley Wallack (Noaln Welsh and John Gormley), 07:51-3rd period

       Riley Wallack (Adam Goodsir and Cade Mason), 15:27-3rd period

       Adam GOodsir (Valtteri Piironen and Jordan DiCicco), 17:07-3rd period

STO: Carter Rapalje (Dean Schwenninger), 00:26-1st period

        Carter Rapalje (Frank Ireland), 04:33-1st period

         Cameron Collins (Carter Rapalje and Max Pineo), 06:27-3rd period

Goaltending

STO: Gavin FitzPatrick (60:00)-58 saves

LIU: Brandon Perrone (60:00)- 15 saves

The Details

• Less than a minute into the opening frame (19:33), Stonehill wasted no time as Schwenninger skated behind Long Island's net and dished the puck back to Rapalje in the left face-off circle. From there, the freshman rifled home a one-timer past Perrone's glove side in the upper right-hand corner.
• Stonehill continued their momentum later in the period at 15:27 when Rapalje corralled a juicy rebound after Ireland's initial shot was saved by Perrone and he beat the Sharks netminder wide open stick side. Rapalje's second goal marked the freshman's sixth multi-goal game of the year.
• However, Long Island responded shortly after Rapalje's goal at 15:14 off the stick of Marcinkevics, and then nearly a minute later (14:25), the Sharks evened things at two. Long Island ultimately retook the lead and never looked back after Welsh's goal with 03:57 left in the first.
• The Sharks continued their momentum early in the second and increased their lead to three (5-2) after goals from Zary and Rook at 16:36 and 14:56 respectively. Even with the two Long Island goals, Stonehill had their best look to get on the board at 10:55 when Rapalje peppered Perrone with back-to-back shots but was turned away each time. Rapalje also had a look at the end of the period but Perrone also stopped that shot.
• After another Long Island goal early in the third to make it 6-2, Collins cut the deficit in half after he received a great feed from Rapalje and made it 6-3 with 13:33 left to play. 
• Despite cutting the Sharks' lead to three, Long Island tacked on three more goals in the final period behind Wallack (12:09 and 04:33) and Goodsir (02:53).

Up Next

Stonehill and Long Island wrap up their season series tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.

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