TROY, N.Y. - The #5 University of Maine men's ice hockey team completed a weekend sweep over RPI with a 6-2 win at Houston Field House on Sunday afternoon.
Harrison Scott and Ross Mitton scored power-play goals 19 seconds apart in the first period but the Engineers responded with a goal before the first intermission. The hosts then scored late in the second period for an 2-2 game after two periods.
Just 91 seconds into the third period, Josh Nadeau put home the eventual game-winning goal off of a feed from Taylor Makar. Scott, Makar and Owen Fowler then closed out the scoring for the 6-2 win.
#5 Maine 6, RPI 2
Dec. 1, 2024 | Houston Field House
NOTABLES
- Maine had the 50-28 lead in shots on goal.
- The Black Bears went 2-for-4 on the power play while RPI was 0-for-1.
- Albin Boija made 26 saves in moving to 10-2-2 on the year.
- The Black Bears are now 13-4-0 in the all-time series with RPI with a road mark of 6-1-0.
- The two-win weekend marked Maine's first non-conference road sweep since a series sweep of RPI on Dec. 29 and 30, 2017.
- Five Black Bears had multi-point games.
- Harrison Scott scored two goals for his second multi-goal game of the season.
- Sully Scholle (0-2-2), Ross Mitton (1-1-2), Taylor Makar (1-1-2) and Jack Dalton (0-2-2) also had multi-point games.
- Dalton's two assists marked his first career multi-point game.
- Makar recorded his fourth multi-point game of the season and now has a career-high in points (13) and assists (8) on the year.
- With an assist, Frank Djurasevic set a new career-high with seven assists on the year.
- Scholle now has a career-high five assists this season.
- Boija is just the second Maine goaltender since the 2005-06 season to post 10 wins in the team's first 14 games.
- Maine recorded two power-play goals and is now converting on 27.4 percent of power plays for the program's best mark through 14 games since converting on 26.7 percent of power plays during the 2002-03 season.
RECORDS
Maine: 10-2-2
RPI: 5-6-1
UP NEXT
The Black Bears will return home to host Stonehill on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Sunday, Dec. 8 at Alfond Arena.
