Yale

The Yale Bulldogs set the pace of Friday's game by scoring just 23 seconds into the first period and went on to beat the Union Dutchmen by a score of 5-1. Yale scored twice in the first, once in the second, and twice in the third for the win.

Christopher Higgins scored the early goal, the first of two for the sophomore, to put the Bulldogs up by one. Union's Marc Neron answered with his 11th goal of the season and his first in nine games at 15:44, the goal assisted by Joel Beal and Jordan Webb. The 1-1 tie was short-lived as Christian Jensen put Yale up less than a minute later at 16:12.

The two teams were scoreless in the second until the final seconds when Higgins added his second goal with under three seconds left to play for the 3-1 lead.

Vin Hellemeyer made it 4-1 with 13:10 remaining in the game, his goal assisted by Higgins. Goalie Kris Mayotte was pulled after the goal and Tim Roth played the remainder of the game. Roth was pulled twice for the empty attacker, but Union was unable to capitalize and Yale added an empty netter with 36 seconds remaining.

Mayotte made 21 saves for the Dutchmen while Roth made 5. Josh Gartner made 23 for Yale.

Union was 0-4 on the power play, Yale was 0-2.

The loss, coupled with a Brown tie and Dartmouth win put Union in a three-way tie for fourth place in the ECAC, dropping to 12-13-4 overall, 8-7-2 in the ECAC.

Princeton

The Dutchmen held on to a three-way tie for fourth place in the ECAC after their season sweep of the Princeton Tigers on Saturday night, snapping a two-game losing streak before heading back on the road next weekend. Union's Kris Goodjohn and Nathan Gillies each had big nights offensively to secure the win.

The Tigers got on the board first in the game with Mike Patton's goal at 10:20. The power play tally was assisted by Dustin Sproat and Steve Slaton. But the Dutchmen took control from there with Goodjohn's first goal of the night at 11:02 to tie it up at the end of one.

Union had an extended 5x3 power play through the first part of the second and capitalized with the two-man advantage just elapsing, with Goodjohn taking his second goal at 1:55. Matt Vagvolgyi made it a two-goal game five minutes later, with Goodjohn adding the first of his two assists.

Captain Nathan Gillies, absent for Friday's game vs. Yale, came up with the first of his two goals at 1:07 of the third for the 4-1 lead. Chris Owen cut into the lead with another Tigers power play goal at 14:34, but the Dutchmen answered less than 15 seconds later. Randy Dagenais netted his second goal of the season to regain the three-goal lead for Union. Gillies added his second goal on the power play at 19:00 to close out the game.

Kris Mayotte was in net for Union and made 23 saves for the win. Nate Nomeland made 21 for Princeton.

Union was 2-5 on the power play, Princeton was 2-6.

The Dutchmen are again at .500 overall (13-13-4) and 9-7-2 in ECAC play.