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TROY, N.Y. – Bowling Green State University (BGSU) scored three times in a span of 1:46 in the second period and the Falcons went on to defeat the University of Alabama-Huntsville, 5-1, in the opening game of the 60th Annual Rensselaer Invitational at the Houston Field House on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).
With the victory the Falcons improve to 6-9-0 and will play the winner of the game between RPI and the University of Connecticut on Saturday. The game will be at 4pm if BGSU plays UConn and at 7pm if against the homestanding Engineers. Alabama-Huntsville, which scored once during the second period flurry of goals, falls to 1-11-1.
Leading 1-0 in the second period, Bowling Green freshman Camden Wojtala (Trenton, MI) doubled the Falcons' advantage when he drove the net from the left boards and scored from in front of the net off a centering pass from linemate Brett Mohler (Yorba Linda, CA) at 12:32 of the stanza. Mohler, who was behind the net, had gotten the puck from Wojtala.
The Chargers answered right back at 13:29 but Bowling Green scored twice in nine seconds less than a minute later. For Alabama-Huntsville, sophomore Justin Cseter (Menomonie, WI) ripped a shot from between the circles for his second goal of the season. BGSU came right back to increase its lead back to two goals when freshman Chad Sumsion (Woodstock, ON) tallied from the bottom of the left circle at 14:09. Just nine seconds later senior Wade Finegan (Toronto, ON) took a feed from Sumsion and put the Falcons ahead by three goals, 4-1.
Bowling Green grabbed the lead originally when it scored late in the first period. Sophomore Jordan Samuels-Thomas (South Windsor, CT) collected the puck on the left side boards, skated toward the top of the circles and snapped a shot into the upper right corner. Samuels-Thomas's fourth goal of the season came at the 19:34 mark and was assisted by Marc Rodriguez (Aurora, IL) and Michael Montrose (Howell, MI), both of whom chipped the puck up the left wing boards. For Montrose, a freshman, the assist was his first career point.
The Falcons added a power play goal in the third period – Jake Sloat's first of his career – for the final margin. Wojtala and Mohler had assists on the goal, which came at the 12:54 mark.
Senior Nick Eno (Howell, MI) stopped of the 19 of the 20 shots he faced, including eight in the second period, to improve to 4-4-0 on the season. Freshman C.J Groh (Cincinnati, OH/Waterloo Blackhawks) made 22 saves on the other end. He is now 0-3-1.
