Mercyhurst won its 20th game of the season and remained unbeaten in the MAAC with a 4-2 victory over visitng Quinnipiac on Saturday night at the Ice Center.<\/p>\n
Mercyhurst improved its overall mark to 20-7-3 and its conference slate to 19-0-3. Quinnipiac dropped to 14-12-4 overall (12-6-4).<\/p>\n
The Lakers jumped on the visitors early, as senior forward Tom McMonagle scored his eighth of the season just 1:38 into the contest. Quinnipiac tied the game at 6:49 of the first when freshman forward Matt Craig beat Mercyhurst goaltender Peter Aubry. It was Craig’s seventh of the season.<\/p>\n
The score stayed that way until early in the second when Rivers connected on a power play at 1:26. Once again Quinnipiac battled back, getting a late second-period goal from senior forward Ryan Olson, his 18th.<\/p>\n
But the Lakers started quickly again in the third as freshman defenseman T.J. Kemp banged in a power-play goal at 1:57. Rivers then completed the scoring with an empty-net score at 19:17.<\/p>\n
The Lakers were 2-of-5 with the man advantage while Quinnipiac was 0-for-6. Aubry stopped 22 of 24 shots to pick up his 17th win of the season. He remains unbeaten in the conference at 17-0-2, a save prcentage of .945 and a goals-against-average of 1.61.<\/p>\n
Sophomore netminder Jamie Holden took the loss for Quinnipiac as his overall record dipped to 11-6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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