East Coast/West Coast Clash

Stony Brook and UC Santa Barbara are separated by 3,000 miles, but this afternoon they met on the rink in Feasterville, PA and not much separated the teams.  After playing to a scoreless tie after the first period, Stony Brook finally broke the scoreless tie when Tom Fargardo (Lindenhurst, NY) scored a power play goal off a feed from Tom Cartwright (Coram, NY). UCSB tied things up just before the conclusion of the second period when Drew Johnson scored on the man advantage. Johnson ripped a hard low shot that just snuck past the out stretched pad of the Stony Brook net minder. With the score tied up going into the final frame, Stony Brook came out with a renewed energy and didn’t waste much time before getting on the board. Jonathan Ison set the Seawolves up for a good finish when he scored just five seconds into the third. Just 1:19 later, Paul Valvo found the back of the net with Stony Brook down a man for a commanding 3-1 lead. UCSB wouldn’t roll over and give up though as they controlled the play for the remainder of the period. However, Stony Brook had the answer in goalie Erik Topalian who made save after save. UCSB almost cut the lead in half with five minutes remaining, but Topalian made a miraculous diving save to stop a sure goal. Tom D'Ancona sealed the deal for the Seawolves with his power play goal with just over four minutes remaining in the game. MJ Jeffries scored a late goal for UCSB but it wasn’t enough to overcome an outstanding effort in net by Topalian. UCSB returns to action tonight at 9:45pm against Florida International. Stony Brook returns to action tonight at 10:45pm against ULL.