The Aurora University men's hockey team returned home to the Fox Valley Ice Arena and scored three power play goals and four unanswered to defeat the Lions of Finlandia University 5-1.
FINAL SCORE: Aurora University 5, Finlandia University 1
LOCATION: Fox Valley Ice Arena - Geneva, Illinois
RECORDS: Aurora University 5-1 overall, 3-0 NCHA; Finlandia University 0-3-1 overall , 0-1 NCHA
- The Spartans went to their first power play 5:41 in to the first period and promptly took advantage.
- 1:28 into the man advantage,
Matt Weber scored with assists from Hassan Akl and
Adam Keyes.
- AU would dominate play in the opening 20 but only led 1-0 going to intermission.
- Two penalties on the Spartans early in the second proved costly as Finlandia tied the game with a power play goal 6:54 into the second.
- Special teams continued to be the name of tonight's game with AU scoring on the power play late in the second.
- Jacob Brockman scored the power play goal with assists from Akl and
Dane Hirst.
- AU took the one goal lead to the second intermission.
- Early in the third the Spartans struck twice and just 26 seconds a part.
- Hassan Akl scored his first of his career at 2:12 of the third with assists from Jake Code and Giovanni Procopio.
- Code then found the back of the net 26 seconds later at 2:38 with a Tyler Pang helper.
- About five minutes later and on another power play, the Spartans scored fast.
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Jack Jaunich scored from Tyler Pang seven seconds into the extra skater for the 5-1 AU lead.
- AU would go on to win by that 5-1 score.
Points: Hassan Akl (3), Jake Code and Tyler Pang (2)
Goals: Matt Weber,
Jack Jaunich, Hassan Akl, Jake Code and Jacob Brockman (1)
Assists: Hassan Akl and Tyler Pang (2)
Saves: Tanner Marshall (15)
Next action for the Spartan men's hockey team comes on Friday, November 12 when they host to Finlandia University. Puck drop is slated for 3:00 p.m. at Fox Valley Ice Arena in Geneva, Illinois.
