Brockport exploded for four second period goals in an 8-1 win over Lebanon Valley as senior Jake Taylor recorded two goals and one assist.
Junior defenseman Brian Hurlimann (Hilton) opened the scoring at 5:27 of the first period with his third career and first goal of the season as he found the lower left corner of the net on his shot from the right point. He was laying just his second game after missing time in the first semester due to injury.
“Great time,” Hurlimann said about his tally. “Big blowout win too for the guys; we really needed that.”
Freshman Doc Gentzler began the second period onslaught with an assist by Bryan Carville, who gained the zone and found his teammate in the slot who backhanded it home.
Lebanon Valley handed Brockport its next two goals. At 5:07, their defenseman tried a clearing attempt up the middle, but Taylor intercepted and shot into the top right corner.
Less than three minutes later, their goaltender tried to clear the puck, but Zac Zikich intercepted and scored his fifth of the season shorthanded.
Freshman Luke Bennett scored a four-on-four goal with assists from Connar Bass and Tim Kielich at 14:13 to make it 5-0 Golden Eagles.
Dylan Shapiro made it 6-0 with a shot off the goaltender’s pads and in with assists from Bass and Rob Hall at 7:50 of the third before Lebanon Valley broke up Brockport goaltender Jake Moore’s shutout bid with a power play goal.
Freshman Connor Hutchins netted his seventh goal of the season going five-hole after passes from Aidan Verbeke and Taylor to make it 7-1 and Taylor finished the scoring converting a give-and-go from Verbeke.
Moore made 30 saves in the Brockport net to earn his first win of the season in his third game.
“We talked about paying attention to detail and using it as an opportunity to get better and hopefully score some goals because we’ve been snake bit with only two goals over our last three games,” Brockport head coach Brian Dickinson said.
“For the most part I think we did a really good job of playing our game and large stretches playing together and playing in their end a lot, so all in all I thought it was a pretty good effort and one that we can build on.”
