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Union Suffers OT Loss

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Last spring, Union ended Dartmouth’s season in the ECAC Hockey playoffs.  The Big Green extracted a measure of revenge with a 4-3 overtime come-from-behind win Friday in ECAC Hockey action.  The Dutchmen have lost four straight games for the first time since the 2006-07 season.

Dartmouth scored four straight goals after falling behind 3-0 midway through the second period.  Tim O’Brien scored the game-winning goal 3:22 into overtime after his shot off a faceoff win deflected off a Union player past goaltender Colin Stevens.

Union built a 3-0 lead behind goals from Tyler Hynes, Max Novak and Spencer Foo.  Hynes opened scoring with his first collegiate goal, tucking a shot into the upper corner of the net on a shot taken from inside the left faceoff circle.  Union followed with two more tallies in the middle period, as Novak roofed a backhander on a breakaway at 4:59, followed by Foo’s shot from the slot at 9:31that was setup on an 80-foot pass from defenseman Jeff Taylor.

Dartmouth battled back on Eric Robinson’s power play goal scored with 1:59 left in the second period.  Trailing 3-1 entering the third period, Tyler Sikura scored at4:40 before Brad Schierhorn forced overtime with his first goal of the season, tallied with 50 seconds left and goaltender James Kruger pulled for the extra skater.

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Janet has been covering women's hockey for over 35 years. Along with a 38 year career in Public Relations and over 40 years photographing sports, she found a passion in women's hockey. Her initial story was on the founding of the Niagara University D1 program, she expanded to collegiate and youth and was active in the founding and promoting of the WNY Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Federation. When Professional Women's Hockey hit the ice she was there, one of the first to release the story in WNY. Along with her husband, Randy, people comment that if there's hockey, the Schultz's are there!