Oct. 11, 2005
Endicott Preserves Win Even with Power Outage
After two primer games against the Boston Jr. Blackhawks, the Endicott Gulls put their most complete game together so far this season, to convincingly take apart the Marist College Red Foxes with a 6-2 win this past Saturday.
From the start of the first period, Endicott appeared to be playing with much more confidence and determination then the Super East Red Foxes. That was until Endicott's Chris Garofalo was whistled off for ten minutes due to an equipment violation. But Endicott quickly bounced back when Sophomore Bryan Caccamo received a nice pass from Captain Adam Partaledis (2 goals, 2 assists) who fired a quick, low shot past Marist goalie Matt Stuart for Endicott's first power play goal at 9:41.
Just 20 seconds later with Endicott trying to maintain momentum, freshman defenseman Anthony Chedid connected on a beautiful breakout pass to Mark Vaughan who skated into the offensive end and fired a low shot that was immediately slammed home by freshman Robert Fruggiero for Endicott's second goal.
The second period opened much like the first with Endicott producing much of the pressure, and limiting the offensive chances of Marist. However when Marist was able to generate quality shots, senior Jeff Pardue was able to keep them off the board.
The Gulls answered again early in the second period when freshman Chris Linnehan (1 goal, 1 assist) fired a low 10 foot shot past Stuart, with assists going to Partaledis and Garofalo. Less than two minutes later, Garofalo's hard work paid off when he tallied on a fantastic individual effort off the face-off to beat Stuart again for Endicott's second power-play goal of the night.
With Endicott leading 4-0 with 9:50 remaining in the second period, and unusual turn of events occurred when the Johnson rink lost all electrical power, prompting the evacuation of the arena. With both teams standing in the down pouring rain outside while fire officials tried to restore power, many wondered if the game would continue. But after a twenty minute delay both teams resumed play. Maybe the water helped wake up the faltering Marist team, because they quickly jumped out with two unanswered goals against a sleep-walking Endicott team, completing the second period deficit by two.
Endicott used the second intermission to re-focus and quickly answered in the third period while on a five on three power play, Partaledis slammed a shot home from just outside the crease.
Marist tried to regain some of the pressure they had in the second, but the Endicott defense squandered any offensive hope that Marist threw at them. Partaledis made it a four goal gap at 4:28 of the third short-handed, when he received a nice transitional pass from sophomore Mike Ripley and fired a glove-side slap shot from the blue line that seemed to hand-cuff the Marist goalie.
Endicott will play host to the Babson Beavers on Saturday, October 15th at 7:00pm at the Johnson Rink.
