FREDONIA, N.Y. — Fredonia completed its weekend sweep of SUNY Canton with a 5-2 men’s hockey win Saturday afternoon at the Steele Hall Ice Arena.
Todd Schauss (Terryville, Conn.) and Sam Wilbur (Saginaw, Mich.) each had a goal and an assist for the Blue Devils (7-5-1), who beat the Kangaroos (2-9-0) on Friday, 5-1. The Blue Devils were also 5-4 overtime winners when the teams met two weekends ago in the consolation game of the Skidmore Thanksgiving Invitational.
Mike Freeman (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.) was credited with the game-winning goal, a power-play tally midway through the first period. In addition, Colin Valentine (Turnersville, N.J.) and Josh Biasillo (Orchard Park, N.Y.) had one goal each, while Brandon Spognardi (Warrington, Pa.) and Kyle Jelinski (Edmonton, Alberta) each had two assists.
Anton Rosen (Orsa, Sweden) stopped 29 of 31 shots and improved to 5-0-0. He made 36 saves in Friday’s win.
Josh Sova and Joe Deveny scored for SUNY Canton. Austin Washkurak stopped all 14 shots he faced in a relief role in the Kangaroo goal.
The Blue Devils led 3-0 before the Roos scored. The scoring began at 4:38 of the first period when Schauss took a pass just over blue line, skated in and patiently waited for the goalie to go down. His rising wrister hit upper left corner for his second goal of the season.
Valentine’s goal, his second of the season, came at 9:23 on a 2-on-1 rush for a 2-0 Fredonia lead. It was the first of four Blue Devils’ tallies in which they used their muscle to gain the advantage as Valentine slipped the puck low along ice during a delayed penalty against SUNY Canton.
Freeman’s game-winner at the 11:23 mark followed a scrum and several shots on goal from close range. It was Freeman’s fourth goal of the season.
Sova made it 3-1 when he scored from a wide angle on a Canton power play at 15:04.
Fredonia scored twice in the second period and SUNY Canton had the only goal in the third. Wilbur’s goal, his sixth of the season, at 1:12 of the second was the result of another battle won in front of the net. Biasillo’s fourth at 8:14 was a shot from in front of the net after he circled in from the left hard and drove hard into the crease. The final goal of the game, by the Roos’ Deveny, came at 12:32 of the third period on a 2-on-1 break.
