Robert Morris stormed into the Von Braun Center in Huntsville, Ala., and gave the homestanding Alabama-Huntsville Chargers all they wanted and more, coming away with a 7-1 victory Monday night in front of 1714 fans.<\/p>\n
Nathan Longpre led off scoring for the Colonials, as he and Sean Berkstresser worked a loose puck in front of starting netminder Cam Talbot and lit the lamp just 1:18 into the game. Longpre and Berkstresser swapped roles for the second goal, with Berkstresser firing home a medium-range shot that Talbot never seemed to see with just 3:00 gone in the game.<\/p>\n
“They got a couple quick ones,” Chargers’ coach Danton Cole remarked, “And as happens sometimes, you get a little bit rattled and you get away from what you’re doing.”<\/p>\n
Cole attempted to stanch the bleeding by swapping goaltenders, putting in sophomore Blake MacNicol, but he proved no more up to the task than his teammate.<\/p>\n
“Defensively, we weren’t very good, and our goaltending wasn’t very good,” stated Cole. Jason Towsley solved that defense with a power-play goal a minute into the Colonials’ first power play of the night, scoring unassisted at 6:10.<\/p>\n
The Chargers’ lone goal of the night came on a power play when Andrew Coburn found Matt Sweazey in front of the goal mouth to push the puck past Colonials’ netminder Christian Boucher to narrow the margin to 3-1. The Colonials answered with a power-play goal off the stick of David Boguslawski with 1:17 left in the first to skate into the first intermission up 4-1.<\/p>\n
The Colonials scored twice more in the second, with Andrew Bonello’s goal at 4:14 chasing MacNicol and Talbot returning to the ice. <\/p>\n
Boguslawski earned first star honors on the night with his second goal less than two minutes later to carry the margin to 6-1.<\/p>\n
Chris Margott scored the Colonials’ final goal in the third period. The remainder of the period saw each team rack up a number of roughing and high-sticking minors as the home team appeared to take out their frustrations. <\/p>\n
“I’ve never been a fan of [chippiness] in 7-1 games,” said Cole. “I understand it in a 1-1 game, but I don’t understand it when you’re up or down by that much.”<\/p>\n
The two teams match up for one final game in 2007 on Tuesday night at 7:05 p.m. at the Von Braun Center before heading off to the Christmas break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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