Box Score
TROY, N.Y. – Brown University scored two third-period goals, including one with under a minute remaining, to come back from a two-goal deficit and force a 2-2 tie with #17 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in an ECAC Hockey game in front of 4,783 fans at the Houston Field House.
Brown (0-1-2; 0-0-2 ECAC Hockey) got the game-tying goal at 19:42 of the third period as Jeff Prough (Farmington Hills, MI/Sioux Falls Stampede) took the puck, went in front of Engineers senior goaltender Jordan Alford (Red Deer, AB/Canmore Eagles) and put the puck past him to tie the game. Ryan Garbutt (Winnipeg, MB/Winnipeg South Blues) and Chris Poli (Medfield, MA/Noble & Greenough) picked up the assists. Brown had pulled goaltender Dan Rosen (Syosset, NY/Green Bay Gamblers) for an extra attacker to try to score the goal.
After a scoreless first period, the Engineers (5-2-2; 0-0-2) scored twice in the second frame for a 2-0 lead. Senior Andrew Lord (West Vancouver, BC/Vernon Vipers) tallied the first when he redirected a centering pass from defenseman Christian Jensen (Watchung, NJ/Chicago Steel) past Rosen from just outside the crease. Jensen was sent streaking up the right side of the ice on a long pass from Jonathan Ornelas (Mississauga, ON/Milton IceHawks), who was credited with the secondary assist on the goal, which came at 6:19.
Ornelas made it 2-0 at 14:18 when he stick-handled past a defender and scored on a wrist shot from the slot. Freshman Bryan Brutlag (Lakeville, MN/Academy of Holy Angels) earned the primary assist and Lord the secondary.
Brown cut the lead to 2-1 with a nice rush by Matt Vokes (Auburn, MA/Cedar Rapids Roughriders). Vokes went up the wing and blistered one over the stick of Alford. Sean Hurley (Rutland, VT/Chicago Steel) and Matt Palmer (Anchorage, AK/Billings Blues) picked up assists.
Rensselaer’s Alford, stopped 27 saves in the tie. He had a personal shutout streak of 172:01 stopped. Rosen finished with 20 saves on the other end for Brown.
RPI, which is now unbeaten in six straight games (4-0-2), plays again next Friday night at league foe Harvard. Brown also returns to the ice on Friday when Colgate visits Providence. Both games begin at 7pm.
