UConn Vs. Penn State; A First Meeting
Pauly’s (No. 8) First Career Goal
On December 4th and 5th, 2013, UConn hosted Penn State, for their first ever meeting. It was also Penn State’s first year in Division I. In the first game, Matt Grogan was UConn’s starting goaltender. Only 28 seconds into the two team’s first meeting, Jordan Sims recorded his fourth of the year, from a pass from Sean Ambroisie from behind the net. Just over 5:30 later, Penn State tied the game, with a power-play goal that was tipped in off a slap-shot. Over two minutes into the second, Penn State had a shot bounce off a UConn defensemen and into the net. Brant Harris shot the puck by the boards and off the goalie and in the net to tie the game. Just over one minute later, Shawn Pauly, bombed home a juicy rebound off an Evan Carrie shot to give UConn a 3-2 lead. With six minutes remaining in the period, Penn State scored to tie it up at 3-3, to end the second period, with Penn State leading 27-17 in shots. In the third, only six minutes in, Patrick Kirtland, came around the side of the net, and fired a shot over the glove of the Penn State netminder, into the top right corner to give UConn the lead, with his second goal of the year. Matt Grogan made some more saves, as UConn held on for the 4-3 victory.
On Saturday, UConn looked for the sweep of Penn State. Since I couldn’t go to the game, I watched the game online. Only 13 seconds into the game, Penn State scored . The Nittnay Lions won the center ice faceoff, passed the puck into the zone along the boards, and the reciever backhanded the puck to the player who shot the puck past Garrett Bartus for a 2-on-1 goal. But just over a minute later, UConn tied the game on Shawn Pauly’s second goal in as many games and of his career. Pauly skated up the side on a 1-on-1, and passed to a Husky, whose shot went right passed a UConn stick, but went right to Pauly’s who put it home to tie the game. Later in the period, UConn went on the power-play. When Penn State tried to clear the zone, a Husky stopped the puck at the blue line, and passed to Ambrosie, who walked in all alone on the goalie, and scored on a backhand try, to make it 2-1 at the end of one. In the second about half way through, Tom Janoz sent a pass behind the net to Ambrosie, who spun a shot on the PSU netminder, that bounced to the other side to Sharib, who backhanded a shot into the top of the net, to give UConn a 3-1 lead, going into the third period. In the Third period, Penn State started fighting back, but couldn’t find the back of the net on Bartus, but they did hit the post a few times. Later in the game, Penn State pulled the goalie, and UConn flicked the puck out of the zone to Evan Carrie, who skated on the wide open net, and hit the crossbar! The puck bounced into the corner, and Carrie recovered to pass the puck to Trevor Gerling, who put it home to seal UConn’s 4-1 sweep of Penn State. UConn improved to 7-8-2 on the season, and Bartus was named AHA goalie of the week, and Shawn Pauly was named AHA rookie of the week. UConn did great against Penn State!
UConn Sweeps Penn State
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What a game. The write up is sub-purb. Excellent.