At the end of the RIT-Geneseo game, one of the media in attendance leaned over and said, “12 layups and a three-pointer.” That just about sums up the 13-0 drubbing the Tigers put on the Ice Knights Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Believe it or not, the Tigers actually got out to a slow start in this game.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t like how we came out in the first period,” said RIT coach Wayne Wilson. “I thought that we were fortunate to get the three goals in the first period.”<\/p>\n
RIT’s lethargic start combined with Geneseo’s neutral-ice defense meant even play for most of the first period. Tiger captain Derek Hahn got RIT on the board 6:31 in, while on the power play. Hahn carried the puck along the Ice Knight blue line and slapped one down the slot that found the back of the net.<\/p>\n
A broken play deep in the Geneseo zone led to RIT’s second goal at 16:03. Hahn sent the puck across the crease to Errol McDonald, who tapped the puck in to give RIT the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
A fluke goal at 19:34 was RIT’s third in the period. The puck was bouncing around near the Geneseo net when it somehow bounced off the back of Geneseo goaltender Jeff Phelps and in.<\/p>\n
“We came out in the second like I wanted to come out in the first,” said Wilson.<\/p>\n
And the Tigers were on fire early in the period. Goals by Brandon Luckino (3:05), Josh Faulkner (4:31), and Mike Tarantino (5:20) gave RIT a quick 6-0 lead, as RIT went on to outshoot Geneseo 25-6 in the second period, and 62-28 for the game.<\/p>\n
Hahn finished a tic-tac-toe play at 13:39 that spelled the end of Phelps’ goaltending duties for the night. Senior Kevin Koury came in and stemmed the tide for a short while, but in the end he didn’t fare any better than Phelps had.<\/p>\n
Two RIT goals 10 seconds apart in the closing moments of the period by Shawn Wilkins and Josh Myers gave RIT a commanding 9-0 lead, and another goal just 59 seconds into the third by Lanner Fayad meant RIT had scored three in a 1:13 span.<\/p>\n
Brian Armes tapped in a goal on the doorstep mid-period to continue the onslaught; then the RIT penalty killers got into the action as McDonald finished off a shorthanded goal at 15:09 for the 12th layup of the night.<\/p>\n
Finally, in the closing moments of the game, Shawn Wilkins sent a line-drive slapshot from his own blue line onto the Geneseo net. He only intended to put the dump-in on net, but he caught Koury napping and the puck streaked into the upper left corner for the three-pointer.<\/p>\n
Derek Hahn (2g, 2a), Josh Faulkner (1g, 3a), and Shawn Wilkins (1g, 3a) all chipped in four-point nights for RIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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