No. 3/4 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Defeats Dartmouth, 6-2, For 10th Straight Win

Saturday, November 14

Hamden, Conn.

7:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

Dartmouth College

No. 3/4 Quinnipiac Men's Ice Hockey Defeats Dartmouth, 6-2, For 10th Straight Win

11/14/2015 9:22:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

By: QU Sports Information

Box Score

HAMDEN, Connecticut – National-ranked No. 3/4 Quinnipiac men's ice hockey cruised to a 6-2 win against ECAC Hockey foe Dartmouth for its 10^th consecutive win, matching the program record set in 1997-98. The Bobcats improve to 10-0-0 on the year and 4-0-0 in ECAC Hockey while Dartmouth drops to 2-4-0 overall and in league play.

Tim Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) scored in his sixth consecutive game while also adding an assist. The third-year Bobcat has now scored in every game in which he's suited up this season. K.J. Tiefenwerth (Bellmore, New York) added a goal and an assist while Devon Toews (Abbotsford, British Columbia) had a pair of assists. Tommy Schutt (Chanhassan, Minnesota) scored in his second consecutive game while 2015 All-American Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland) scored his third goal in his last four games. Connor Clifton (Matawan, New Jersey) scored his second goal of the year while also converting his eighth point in his last seven games. Chase Priskie (Pembroke Pines, Florida) had his fifth assist in his last three games while Derek Smith (Apple Valley, Minnesota) added his fourth assist in his last three games.

Freshman Scott Davidson (Trail, British Columbia) put Quinnipiac on the board with his second goal of the year just under thirteen minutes into the first period. Soren Jonzzon (Mountain View, California) won a battle in the corner and played the puck to Tim Clifton behind the net. Clifton was tied up by a Dartmouth defender dropped a no-look pass back to Davidson for the one-timer from the slot. Tiefenwerth's fourth goal of the year came off a rebound on a shot by Priskie from the point.

Dartmouth's Carl Hesler cut Quinnipiac's lead in half with just under five minutes to play in the period before Schutt scored to push the Bobcats lead back to two goals with fifteen seconds left to play in the period. Smith knocked the puck loose out of a scrum just below the blue line in the Bobcats defensive zone before Bo Pieper (Roseville, Minnesota) grabbed the loose puck along the boards and fed Schutt. Schutt took off down ice, walked around a defender and buried his fourth goal of the year to give Quinnipiac a 3-1 lead.

Coming out of the first Dartmouth's Corey Kalk took advantage of a turnover in the Bobcats' defensive zone and scored give minutes into the period to pull the Big Green within a goal, 3-2, with most of the period to play. The score remained at 3-2 before Dartmouth was hit with a five-minute major and a game misconduct. On the power play, Andrew Taverner (Edmonton, Alberta) pass the puck across the Dartmouth zone to Tiefenwerth who touched passed it back to Tim Clifton for the one-timer past Dartmouth's Charles Grant to give Quinnipiac a 4-2 lead.

Still on the power play to start the second, Anas scored his 51^st career goal after Travis St. Denis (Trail, British Columbia) moved the puck to Toews at the point, who then turned and put the puck on Anas' stick in the opposite face-off circle. Anas wound-up and blasted a shot on goal, tucking it just under Grant's arm to give the Bobcats a 5-2 advantage. Connor Clifton netted an empty-net goal with one minute and thirty-three seconds remaining.

Quinnipiac returns to action on Tuesday, Nov. 17 when it takes on UConn in a non-conference match-up at 7 p.m. at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. The Bobcats return home on the following weekend to face Clarkson on Friday, Nov. 20 and St. Lawrence on Saturday, Nov. 21 at High Point Solutions Arena.