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Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Head Coach Rand Pecknold Records 400th Career Win As No. 14 Bobcats Top UMass, 3-1
11/29/2014 12:00:00 AM | Men's Ice Hockey
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HAMDEN, Conn. – Quinnipiac men's ice hockey head coach Rand Pecknold registered his 400th career win as the nationally-ranked No. 14 Bobcats defeated UMass, 3-1, in Amherst, Mass. Sophomore Tim Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) scored twice for the Bobcats, who improve to 9-3-1 on the year while the Minutemen drop to 4-9-0 on the season.
Pecknold is now one of six active NCAA Division I coaches with 400 career wins while he also becomes just the 34th in NCAA history to reach the feat. With the Bobcats' win in Amherst, Pecknold is now 400-252-73 all-time in his 21st season. He also joins legendary Quinnipiac coaches Burt Kahn, Mike Quitko and Dan Gooley as the fourth coach in Quinnipiac Athletics history to reach the 400-win mark.
Quinnipiac freshman goalie Sean Lawrence (Granite Bay, California) picked up his first career win after stopping 17 of UMass' 18 shots on goal. Clifton records the first multiple-goal game of his career while he also becomes the fifth Bobcat this season to post a two-goal night joining Sam Anas, Landon Smith, Alex Barron and Travis St. Denis. Barron scored twice in Quinnipiac's match-up against UMass on Friday, Nov. 28.
Halfway through the first period, Quinnipiac found itself on a 5-on-3 power play after UMass was whistled for two quick penalties within a minute of each other. The Minutemen managed to kill the first penalty, with UMass goalie Henry Dill tipping away a one-timer from point blank range by Sam Anas. Moments later, Tim Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) picked up his fourth goal of the season when he redirected a blast from the point by Justin Agosta (East Meadow, New York) off a feed from Derek Smith (Apple Valley, Minnesota). It was Quinnipiac's first power play goal in three games for the Bobcats.
UMass tied the game just under two minutes later with a power play goal of its own. After a Quinnipiac player was called for holding, Steve Iacobellis won a face-off in the Bobcats defensive zone, but Quinnipiac regained control. After Ben Gallacher knocked it off a Quinnipiac players stick, Frank Vatrano picked up the loose puck and beat Bobcat freshman goalie Sean Lawrence to knot the game at 1-1.
Early in the third period, Clifton scored his second goal of the game to give Quinnipiac a 2-1 lead. Shortly after Quinnipiac was whistled for a penalty, the Bobcats regained control of the puck deep in the UMass zone with Travis St. Denis (Trail, British Columbia) carrying it behind the Minutemen's goal. St. Denis then zipped a pass between two UMass defensemen to Clifton in the slot for the one-timer to give the Bobcats a one-goal lead.
Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland) popped in his team-leading 10th goal of the season with just under 13 minutes to play in the game to give the Bobcats a two-goal lead. Anas' 32nd career goal came on the power play off a pass from Devon Toews (Abbotsford, British Columbia).
Quinnipiac resumes ECAC Hockey play when it hosts Dartmouth on Friday, Dec. 5 and Harvard on Saturday, Dec. 6 at High Point Solutions Arena at the TD Bank Sports Center in Hamden, Connecticut.
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