BOX SCORE

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Southern New Hampshire University men's ice hockey team won its season opener, defeating Johnson and Wales University 6-3 Sunday afternoon.  Four different players scored goals for the Penmen, while eight different players tallied points in the winning effort.  The Penmen are now 1-0-0 on the season, while the Wildcats fall to 0-2-0.

Senior captain John Frey (Westminster, Colo.) and Penmen newcomer Brandon Bradley (Wichita, Kansas) each scored two goals apiece, with Bradley also notching an assist.   Last year's Northeast-10 Player of the Year Troy Maybury (South Portland, Maine) tallied a goal and two assists, and rounding out the scoring for the Penmen was Jake Berube (Spotsylvania, Va.).

After one period of play, the Penmen held a 3-1 lead.  Frey's first goal of the game, an unassisted tally, was scored at 5:18 in the first period.  After a Wildcat goal scored by Jeremiah Ketts, Bradley scored his first collegiate goal with helpers from William Toomey (Reading, Mass.) and Maybury at 18:59.  Exactly one minute later, with one second to go in the first, Frey tallied his second goal of the game and his second of the period from a Kent Honeyman (Marietta, Ga.) feed. 

Craig Houle of the Wildcats scored a power play goal to lead off the second period scoring, cutting the Penmen lead to one, SNHU would respond with two goals to take a 5-2 lead heading into the second intermission.  Maybury notched his first tally of the year on an assist from Bradley in the twelfth minute.  Bradley continued to be the hot hand for the Penmen, as his second goal of the game at 14:00 gave the Penmen a three goal lead.  Assisting on Bradley's second goal were Maybury and Penmen defenseman Neil Adams (Gardner, Mass.).

Berube scored the sixth Penmen goal of the afternoon at :49 of the third period on an assist by Ryan DiBartolomeo (Leominster, Mass.).  A Jason Pietrasiak goal in the eleventh minute of the third period was the last of the scoring on the afternoon. 

Shane Brooks (Kennebunk, Maine) went the distance in goal for the Penmen, playing all sixty minutes in net while collecting his first win of the season stopping 26 of 29 shots on goal.  JR Woodland also played the entire sixty minutes and faced 34 shots from the Penmen offense, making 28 stops.   Johnson and Wales was 2-8 on the power play while the Penmen were 0-5 with the man advantage. 

The Penmen will have their home opener November 10^th at the Ice Den in Hooksett, N.H., as they will face Western New England College at 7:30 PM.