Elmira scored five special teams goals en route to a 6-1 victory over Geneseo at the Ira S. Wilson Arena. The Soaring Eagles were four-for-eight on the power play and added a shorthanded goal to improve their record to 11-0-2 and give coach Tim Ceglarski his 100th career victory behind the Elmira bench.<\/p>\n
Elmira, ranked second in the USCHO.com poll, is the only undefeated left in Division III. <\/p>\n
“We’ve got a nice team,” said Ceglarski. “I’m a little suprised (to be undefeated) because we’re young, but we’re playing very well right now. I really like our defense. I think top to bottom it’s the best we’ve had since I’ve been here.” <\/p>\n
It didn’t take long for the Soaring Eagles to get on the scoreboard as Ryan Arnone banged in a rebound past Geneseo goaltender Derek Jokic at 3:11. It came on the power play, and was the only goal of the first period. Elmira outshot Geneseo 10-5 in the first stanza.<\/p>\n
As they had done in the first period, Elmira got a power play goal early in the second. Karl Linden’s shot was stopped by Jokic, but Stefan Schoen was at the far post and put the rebound in to make it 2-0.<\/p>\n
The backbreaker came at 5:38. A shorthanded clear by Larry Willard handcuffed Jokic, the puck fell to his skates, and as he fell backwards, Jockic kicked the puck into his own net.<\/p>\n
Geneseo coach Chris Shultz replaced Jokic at that point with Jeff Pasemko, who had played only 15 minutes so far this season. Jokic finished the night with 12 saves. <\/p>\n
“He came to the bench and said, ‘I’m sorry coach’, said Shultz. “He was fighting the puck all night. I could see it in warmups.”<\/p>\n
Geneseo looked to make a game of it at 10:40. On a three on two rush, Jeff MacPhee put a wrist shot past Elmira goaltender Casey Tuttle to make it 3-1.<\/p>\n
That was as close as Geneseo would get, however. Russell Smith scored another Elmira power-play goal with 32 seconds left in the period.<\/p>\n
The Soaring Eagles got their only even strength goal at 13:08 from Jan Velich and close things out with a five-on-three power play tally with 25 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
“Our power play has been just O.K. this season,” said Ceglarski. “But tonight we moved the puck well and went hard to the net. We set up some nice screens.”<\/p>\n
“We’re having all sorts to trouble scoring goals,” said Schultz. “I looked up at the scoreboard in the third period and we were only getting outshot 23-18. It shouldn’t be a 5-1 game at that point.”<\/p>\n
Final shots were 25-20 in favor of Elmira.<\/p>\n
Geneseo falls to 5-11 and will host Utica next Saturday before returning to SUNYAC play. Elmira travels to Lebanon Valley next weekend for a pair of league games.<\/p>\n
“We need to keep the momentum,” said Ceglarski. “All games are important for us, league or non-league. We’re in a conference without an automatic bid so you need to win 20 games to have a shot at the (NCAA) tournament.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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