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The San Diego State University men’s ice hockey team will host Southern California rival Loyola Marymount University on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8:30 p.m. at the Kroc Center Ice Arena.
The Aztecs carry a 2-8 record into the non-divisional encounter. The Lions are 5-2-1 as members of the ACHA Division II West Coast Hockey Conference.
SDSU is competing as a Division I independent.
The Aztecs are coming off a series split against the University of Oregon Oct. 30-31 at the Kroc Center. SDSU won the opener by a score of 4-3 before the Ducks took their revenge with a 4-0 shutout win in the rematch.
The Aztecs and Ducks (8-5-1) will meet a total of eight times this season — four in each home rink.
In the Oct. 30 game against Oregon, the teams each scored one goal in the opening period. Kolby Hennessy gave the Aztecs a 1-0 lead at 9:10 on his firs goal fo the season, assisted by Mason Brown. The Ducks tied the score at 18:08 on a goal by Bobby Anselmo, his fifth, assisted by Andrew Kaunas and Devin Burns.
The assist was Brown’s third of the season.
Oregon scored the only goal in the second period to take a 2-1 lead. Donovan Bradford got the go-ahead goal early on at 1:34, assisted by Loghan Weber. The goal was Bradford’s fourth of the season. It came on a power play.
The Aztecs deadlocked the contest on a power play goal of their own at 7:03 scored by Braden Mayer, his first of the season, assisted by Cameron Ferraz and Brandon Grant. The assists were the four for Ferraz, the team’s leading scorer, and the third for Grant.
The game was far form over as the teams combined for four goals in the third period — three by the hosts.
But first, there was a bit of adversity to overcome as the Ducks took a 3-2 lead on Lewis Majokozak’s 10th goal of the season at 9:44, assisted by Austin Kluksdahl and Weber.
The teams skated for nearly six minutes with the visitors holding a one-goal lead before SDSU finally broke through with the final two goals of the contest.
Ferraz netted his second goal of the season at 15:42 off passes from Heck Stephenson and Hennessy to knot the score at 3-all. Zac Casinghino scored what proved to be the game-winner at 18:01 on a power play. Assists went to Ferraz (his fifth) and Hennessy (his third).
Hennessy had a big game for the Aztecs with three points (one goal, two assists).
The Ducks dominated in the shot department 41-24. Brody Hsiao stepped up with 38 saves to improve his season record to 2-3-0 with a 4.00 goals-against average and 0.927 save percentage. He’s been the backbone of the SDSU defense all season.
There were three power play goals in the game, including two by the Aztecs.
A pre-Halloween crowd of 410 took in the SDSU victory.
Oregon squared the series at a win apiece on Halloween with a late push on the scoreboar. The Ducks carried a tenuous 1-0 lead into the third period on Weber’s fifth goal of the season at 6:52 of the first period. The second period was scoreless as the hosts out-shot the Ducks 14-12 after Oregon had shelled the Aztecs 23-6 in the opening 20 minutes.
SDSU netminder Liam Dee had stopped 34 of 35 shots through two periods but the Pacific Northwest visitors put a damper on that with a ghoulishly unfriendly goal just 1:24 into the third period to double their lead to 2-0. Kaunas tallied his first of the season on a power play.
The Aztecs, cheered on by a near capacity crowd of 400, hung close until late in the game. The Ducks made it 3-0 at 13:15 as Weber notched his sixth goal of the season and went up 4-0 at 17:56 on Jackson Ebbot’s second goal of the season. Carson Streich finished the game with three assists.
The Ducks compiled a 44-28 shot advantage. Dee made 40 saves. For Oregon, Thomas Cafarelli posted a 28-save shutout.
LMU enters Saturday’s game lead in scoring b y Alex Skenderian with 14 points (seven goals, seven assists), Kenny McIlwain with 13 points (seven goals, six assists), Jacob Wilson with 11 points (five goals, six assists) and Jeffrey Lee with 10 points (three goals, seven assists).
Hunter Wieck (4-2-1 record, 3.43 GAA, 0.908 save percentage) an Carson Dyck (1-0 record, 5.28 GAA, 0.800 save percentage) have back-stopped the Lions thus far.
SDSU SCORING LEADERS
Cameron Ferraz 2 goals, 5 assists – 7 points
Mason Brown 2 goals, 3 assists – 5 points
Garion Barber 3 goals, 1 assist – 4 points
Zac Casinghino 2 goals, 2 assists – 4 points
Kolby Hennessy 1 goal, 3 assists – 4 points
Braden Mayer 1 goal, 2 assists – 3 points
Brandon Grant 0 goals, 3 assists – 3 points
Brogan Bjarnason 2 goals, 0 assists – 2 points
Patrick Fast 2 goals, 0 assists – 2 points
Ryan Elleraas 0 goals, 2 assists – 2 points
Drew Gunderson 1 goal, 0 assists – 1 point
Cameron Stangl 1 goal, 0 assists – 1 point
Connor Hennigan 0 goals, 1 assist – 1 point
Heck Stephenson 0 goals, 1 assist – 1 point
Zach Stroozas 0 goals, 1 assist – 1 point
Goaltending
Brody Hsiao 2-3-0 record, 4.00 GAA, 0.927 save percentage
Liam Dee 0-5-0 record, 6.40 GAA, 0.887 save percentage
WCHC STANDINGS
Grand Canyon University 14-2-1, 29 points
Cal State-Northridge 8-4-0, 16 points
Loyola Marymount University 5-2-1, 11 points
Northern Arizona University 5-7-0-1. 11 points
Arizona State 4-6-1, 9 points
UCLA 0-0-0, 0 points
PAC-8 STANDINGS
Eastern Washington 11-4-0-1, 23 points
Washington State 11-7-0, 22 points
Washington 10-1-0-1, 21 points
Cal-Berkeley 10-2-0-1, 21 points
Western Washington 7-3-0, 14 points
USC 6-6-0, 12 points
San Jose State 1-10-0, 2 points
UC-San Diego 0-7-0, 0 points
