By Warren Kozireski —
Freshman Aidan Marshall scored twice whereas senior Hunter McCoy and sophomore defenseman Jon Bell every had a two-point sport as Military defeated RIT handily 5-1 Friday evening.
It marked simply the seventh time the Black Knights have overwhelmed the Tigers within the 41-game historical past between the groups and first since a 6-0 win in December 2021.
“That was our most full sport of the 12 months,” Military head coach Brian Riley mentioned. “We’ve got a younger staff so I fear from sport to sport what we’re going to be after we go on the market, however our sport was good from begin to end tonight.
“Our D-corp tonight I believed was actually good. We didn’t prolong performs in our finish due to turnovers; we’ve finished that quite a bit this 12 months, however we had been in a position to handle that a part of our sport.”
Marshall staked Military to a 1-0 lead at 2:07 of the primary interval after forcing a turnover behind the RIT internet, however the Tigers Simon Isabelle tied it two minutes later from Tanner Andrew.
Military then rattled off 4 consecutive began by sophomore Brent Keefer roofing his shot following a cross from behind the online from Nik Hong.
Sophomore defenseman Mac Gadowsky ended the primary interval scoring as his shot went off the skate of a Tiger and into the online at 14:19.
Marshall scored the one aim of a chippy second interval redirecting a cross from Hunter McCoy to increase the leaf to 4-1.
McCoy scored his first aim of the season from Bell at 11:42 of the third to complete the scoring.
“Our final couple of instances in right here (Polisseni Middle) have been fairly good, however over time I believe you could have some groups that you simply play nicely in opposition to and get some wins. Different groups simply type of have your quantity and that’s actually been the case with RIT for us.”
(Picture supplied by RIT Males’s Hockey/Athletic Dept.)
