Saturday, March 15, 2008

Cahoon changes things up

Hockey
Joe Meloni

DURHAM, N.H. - Dissatisfied with his team performance last night, UMass coach Don Cahoon made some changes to tonight's lines.

On the defensive side, UMass is the same with Paul Dainton in goal and the same four defensive pairings. Offensively, Jordan Virtue and Marc Conannon are not in action this evening , replaced by freshmen Shawn Saunders and Brian Keane.

The lines from left to right are:
LW P.J. Fenton - Michel Lecomte - Chris Davis
Alex Berry - Cory Quirk - James Marcou
Brian Keane - Brett Watson - Will Ortiz
Shawn Saunders - Scott Crowder - Marr Burto

The defensive pairings are:
Martin Nolet - Mike Kostka
David Leaderer - Justin Braun
Topher Bevis - Doug Kublin.

The Minutemen struggled to establish any consistency and made some mistakes that led directly to odd-man rushes for the Wildcats. Saunders can bring energy to any line he's on as he displayed against Boston University two weekends ago.

Once again the arena is filled mostly by older UNH fans as the student body began its spring break yesterday. However, the student fans are not completely unrepresented and the segment that is here was quit vocal last night and should be again.

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