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Rochester, NY – The Nazareth hockey team earned a hard fought 1-1 tie Saturday night against Stevenson University to cap a three-point weekend and move its unbeaten streak to four games. Prior to the weekend results, Neumann and Stevenson sat atop the conference with 4-1-1 records in UCHC play. With the 3-2 win over Neumann on Friday night, coupled with Saturday's tie, Nazareth is now 6-5-1 overall and 5-2-1 in conference play. Stevenson is now 5-4-3 overall and 4-2-2 in UCHC play.
Nazareth took some time to settle in, not registering a shot until 11:30 into the contest. Stevenson went 0-2 on the power play and Nazareth 0-1 in the opening period.
Ray Falso, the reigning UCHC Player of the Week, scored on the power play two minutes into the second period to open the scoring. It was Falso's third goal in four games and kept his four-game point streak alive. J.R. Wojciechowski kept in a clear attempt and fed Falso for a wrist shot from the right side.
Strong puck movement six minutes later opened up a shooting lane for John Power down the center as he rifled a shot off the pipe that would have made it 2-0.
Shortly after, Jivan Sidhu and Christian Ripley worked a give-and-go, with Sidhu finding the 5-hole of Michael Tilford to even the score at one apiece.
"We knew this weekend was going to be difficult against some highly-skilled opponent," said head coach George Roll. "Our team gave a great effort and our penalty kill unit came up big for us tonight."
In the third period Nazareth had two quality scoring chances in the first six minutes, one from Zander Pryor and the other from David Powlowski. Powlowski had a shot right on the doorstep turned aside.
Nazareth benefited greatly from its penalty kill unit as the Golden Flyers killed off all six penalties, including two in the third period.
In overtime, Nazareth had a power play, generating a few quality chances, but none that got by Stevenson's Jacob Caffrey.
Tilford made 38 saves between the pipes.
The Golden Flyers will be off until January 5th, when it will travel to Potsdam for a 7 p.m. contest.
