STORRS, CT -- Seven goals from six different student-athletes and a defense that limited its opponent to 14 shots gave the 18th-ranked Union College men's ice hockey team a 7-0 win against Connecticut in the consolation game of the 2009 Toyota UConn Classic on Wednesday. The victory was the 100th career win for Union bench general Nate Leaman, who is now only 23 wins away from passing Charlie Morrison (1978-88) for most wins in school history -- both Division I and III. The win moves the Dutchmen to 9-4-5, while the Huskies go to 2-14-2.
Union, which outshot UConn 39-14, received goals from senior
Mike Wakita, junior
Adam Presizniuk, junior Stephane Boileau, senior
Jason Walters, junior
John Simpson and senior
Mike Schreiber.
Junior
Corey Milan earned his fourth win of the season and 29th of his career (third all-time in school history) by making 14 stops in his first regular season start since a 3-3 tie against sixth-ranked Yale on Nov. 7. The shutout was the third of his career.
Wakita got the score started with his first goal of the season and third of his career with a shot from the right point that was deflected in off a UConn player. Coburn fed the Union captain the puck from the left point and sophomore
Luke Cain had the second helper.
Union's power-play, which stood at 22.9 percent (13th in the nation) entering the contest, connected for the eighth time in six games. Presizniuk tipped home a shot from Walters for his fifth goal of the season and Walters' 11th assist, moving his point streak to nine games. Senior
Mike Schreiber moved his scoring streak to three games with the second assist.
Boileau made it 3-0 with a tap-in goal at 2:36 after sophomore
Nolan Julseth-White's slap shot trickled through the pads of UConn's Brad McInnis. Coburn picked up the second assist of the game and fourth in two games.
A rebound goal by Walters at 7:18 of the season gave Union its eighth four-plus-goal game of the season. The goal was the 95th of Walters' career has he takes a stride closer to becoming the fifth Dutchmen in DI history to hit the century mark.
In the third, Simpson, Presizniuk and Schreiber completed the scoring with goals at 3:28, 12:41 and 14:35 respectively.
The Dutchmen will play their third game in five games when they kick off the new year with a 7 p.m. outing at Atlantic Hockey foe Army on Saturday, Jan. 2. The game will be the final non-conference regular season game of the season.
