Vaughan Gets 300th Win

RFH 2010, Cover Stories, Colgate Hockey

Sat, Nov 05, 2011

Colgate men's hockey Coach Don Vaughan became just the 39th NCAA Division 1 coach in history and just the 13th active coach to achieve that milestone.

Vaughan's 300th came Friday night as Austin Smith scored two shorthanded goals to lead 18th-ranked Colgate to a 5-3 win over Brown in Providence. He is the fourth ECAC coach to win 300 and the first Colgate hockey coach to do so. Vaughan has a career record of 300-298-69.

Colgate will be back on the ice tonight at 7 at Yale.

Colgate (5-2-1, 1-0-0 ECAC) saw Smith collect his hird two-goal game of the season and his second and third shorthanded goals of the year. Kevin McNamara tallied his fourth career tmulti-point game with a goal and an assist, while Chris Wagner and Jeremy Price added goals in the win. Eric Mihalik was impressive in net and finished with 33 saves between the pipes for his fourth win of the year.

Brown (1-2-0, 0-1-0 ECAC) got goals from Jack Mclelland, Massimo Lamacchia and Chris Zaires in the loss. Matt Wahl added a pair of helpers for the Bears and Mike Clemente pushed aside 20 saves.

Smith gave the Raiders a 1-0 lead 6:35 into the first period with his second shorthanded goal of the season and extended his point-scoring streak to nine games. Spiro Goulakos did a great job pressuring the puck during the Brown power play. He intercepted the puck and found Smith in stride on a breakaway and he buried his eighth goal of the year.

Brown answered in the second period with two-straight scores coming 1:14 apart in the first five minutes. Mclelland tallied the first Bear goal on the power play and it came during an extra attacker situation as Brown pulled the goalie during a delayed penalty on a 5-on-4 power play. After tying the game, the Bears took their first lead 1:14 later with Lamacchia scored on the man advantage. Brown took advantage of over four-straight minutes of power play time.

The Raiders answered with 12:12 remaining in the period as McNamara scored his first of the season with a blast from the blueline. Robbie Bourdon was given the assist as he dropped the puck for McNamara during a rush up ice and he blasted it home.

The Bears tied the game 6:25 into the final frame as Zaires won a battle in front of the net. Jeff Ryan put a shot on Mihalik that the sophomore couldn't cover and Zaires was there for the rebound to tie the game at 3-3. Smith got the lead back for the Raiders at 4-3 with his second shorthanded strike of the night, coming with 4:35 left in the game. He scored 40 seconds into the Brown power play and the goal came unassisted. Wagner sealed the win for Colgate and coach Vaughan with an empty-netter with five seconds remaining in the game.

Brown earned the shot battle with 36 shots to Colgate's 25. The Raiders were 1-for-7 on the man advantage, while Brown went 2-for-8 with the extra skater. All three power play goals came in the second period.