A Team Finishes 18 Game Regular Season

The Drexel University Roller Hockey Club's "A" team completed their 18-game ECRHA regular season this weekend in Feasterville, PA, closing with three wins and a loss. The Dragons finished with an 11-5-2 record and 24-points in the ECRHA standings, the best regular season performance in the DURHC's five year membership with the ECRHA.

The weekend started with Saturday's matchup against the University of Connecticut, who had defeated the Dragons 8-5 in a November contest. Opening a first period 3-0 lead, Drexel never trailed en route to an 8-4 victory. The following morning, the Dragons fell to the #16 SUNY Buffalo Wings by a score of 10-2. Just two hours later, Drexel "A" defeated West Chester University in an exhibition contest by a 5-2 score.

The culmination of the weekend and the regular season came with a meeting against the Boston University Terriers at 3:00pm on Sunday. After leading by as many as three goals during the course of the game, Drexel found themselves in a 5-5 deadlock with little more than 2 minutes remaining, as a pesky and tenacious B.U. squad scratched and clawed themselves back into the game. However, with only 4 seconds remaining, Pat Cummins found a wide-open Jason Cassidy for quick one-timer, which found the back of the net. This marked the third heart-stopping Drexel finish in the last two weekends, including the defeat of Northeastern University in the closing seconds, and the tie of Penn State University with only 1.4 seconds remaining.

What remains to be seen is whether the 24-points amassed by the Dragons in the regular season will allow them to receive a bid to the NCRHA's National Championship Tournament in late-April. Currently, the Dragons are locked in a tie for fourth place in the ECRHA's Division I standings, with the University of Maryland. The Terrapins, however, hold the tie-breaker on Drexel after a 6-2 win over the Dragons on February 15. The final game results of the #20 Rochester I.T. and #18 Rhode Island teams could allow Drexel to finish with as high as a 5th place seed to the ECRHA Regional Championships, or as low as a 7th place seed.

The Dragons will ride the momentum of this past weekend's victories into the ECRHA Regional Championships on the weekend of March 26th at Feasterville, PA. Stay tuned for information here on final seedings and round robin opponents.