JANUARY 30th & 31st
Seawolves Dunk Dragons / Dragons Roast Panthers

The Drexel Dragons earned a split this past weekend against two nationally ranked top 25 teams. Friday, Stony Brook prevailed 8-2. Saturday Drexel thumped Pitt (again) 6-2.

Seawolves Dunk Dragons
Drexel vs. Stony Brook University
Friday, January 30th

Drexel came out hitting, taking play to the Seawolves early in the first period. But it was Drexel’s nemesis, a penalty, which put SB on the power play resulting in power play goal with 5 minutes into the period. SB upped their lead to 2-0. Drexel’s leading scorer, Alex Cohen, got Drexel back to within one on the power play (Blazic, Mansur), deflecting Blazic’s point shot over the goalie’s left shoulder.

In the second period, Drexel’s strong fore-check enabled Luigi Tirro (Simone) to pick up a loose puck in the slot and beat SB’s goalie to tie the game. The strong fore-check continued to give the Seawolves fits. And then, just as Drexel seemed poised to take the lead, the Dragons surrendered two short-handed goals, the second coming with 10 seconds left in the period, deflating Drexel’s efforts.

The third period was all Stony Brook as the game ended 8-2.

Dragons Roast Panthers
Drexel vs. Pittsburgh
Saturday, January 31st

The Dragons played host to the Pitt Panthers at Drexel’s Concrete Palace. The Panthers were looking to avenge their December loss to Drexel in Pittsburgh. Showing no signs of misery from Friday’s defeat, Drexel jumped to a 2-0 first period lead on goals from Bruno Petrillo (Sarnatora) and a power play goal from Zak Blazic (Lawrie, Cohen.).

Bruno’s second goal (McMahon) gave Drexel a commanding 3-0 lead. The Panthers bit back, scoring three unanswered goals to tie the game at the end of two periods. Just as he did in Pittsburgh, Alex Cohen (Lawrie) snaked a smart-puck literally through the Pitt goalie scoring what eventually was the winning goal with seven minutes left in the game. Thereafter, the Dragons chased the Panthers. Drexel scored twice more in the period, both power plays, Cohen (Stollings) and Lawrie (Allatt) as Drexel feasted on Panther stew, 6-2.

Kudos to Drexel back-up goalie Chris Stollings who stopped 30 Pitt shots in a fine effort.

Game Summary Provided by: C.J. Blazic