{"id":2935,"date":"2002-01-25T22:50:47","date_gmt":"2002-01-26T04:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2002\/01\/25\/quick-start-propels-uconn-past-fairfield\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:54:38","slug":"quick-start-propels-uconn-past-fairfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2002\/01\/25\/quick-start-propels-uconn-past-fairfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Start Propels UConn Past Fairfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behind a quick start Friday night, Connecticut upended Fairfield 5-1 in MAAC action. The loss drops Fairfield to 4-15-2 (2-11-2 MAAC), while improving Connecticut&#8217;s record to 6-11-6 (5-5-4 MAAC).<\/p>\n<p>The breaks went in favor of UConn at 14:50 of the first period, as a clearing attempt by a Fairfield defenseman deflected off a stick to a wide-open D.J. Miller in the slot. He found the back of the net to give UConn a 1-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Connecticut jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second period on goals by Matt Owens and Ron D&#8217;Angelo with assists to Eric Nelson, Justin Postiglione, and Adam Rhein.<\/p>\n<p>Fairfield battled in the third, outshooting UConn 8-5, but couldn&#8217;t score. Connecticut had no trouble tickling the twine, however, as both Matt Herhal and D&#8217;Angelo scored at 11:13 and 13:00 to give the Huskies a five-goal lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Stags outshot UConn 28-22. Rookie Michael Wolfe made 17 saves in goal for Fairfield and collected the loss. Sophomore Artie Imbriano made 27 stops between the pipes for Connecticut.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams will meet again Saturday night for the final time this season in Storrs, Conn., at 7:30 p.m..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behind a quick start Friday night, Connecticut upended Fairfield 5-1 in MAAC action. The loss drops Fairfield to 4-15-2 (2-11-2 MAAC), while improving Connecticut&#8217;s record to 6-11-6 (5-5-4 MAAC). The breaks went in favor of UConn at 14:50 of the first period, as a clearing attempt by a Fairfield defenseman deflected off a stick to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}