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Monday, February 20, 2006

2 Ties Are Better Than 2 Losses!

Men's Hockey Ties, 4-4

Mathias Lange
Box Score / League Standings
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Four different players scored goals and freshman netminder Mathias Lange (Klagenfurt, Austria/New York Apple Core) stopped 28 shots to help Rensselaer skate to a 4-4 tie with Quinnipiac at Ingalls Rink. With the draw, RPI is now 13-14-6 overall and 7-7-6 in the ECACHL. The Engineers remain in seventh place in the standings but assure themselves a home series in the first round of the league playoffs the first weekend of March. The homestanding Bobcats are now 16-15-1 and 7-12-1.
Rensselaer, which has set a school record for most ties in a season, saw Oren Eizenman (Toronto, ON/Wexford Raiders), Matt Angers-Goulet (St. Augustin, PQ/Notre Dame), Andrew Lord (West Vancouver, BC/Vernon Vipers) and Jake Luthi (Palmer, AK/Sioux Falls Stampede) tally while Brad Farynuk (Enderby, BC/Vernon Vipers) chipped in with two assists.
Quinnipiac got two goals and two assists from Jamie Bates and 19 saves from Bud Fisher.
Rensselaer closes out the regular season next weekend when Cornell and Colgate visit the Houston Field House.

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