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February 16,
2001
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team effort gives Black Knights seven-game winning streak at home over RMC
By Jon Terry
Asst. Dir., Athletic Media Relations
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Jim Fox Junior defenseman Nathan Mayfield clears the puck and heads up ice during action early in the season. Mayfield scored in the third period against RMC. |
Junior Tim Fisher scored twice and classmate Scott Hamilton stopped 21 of 22 shots in Armys 7-1 hockey victory over Royal Military College in the 70th renewal of the international rivalry Saturday at sold-out Tate Rink.
Armys win avenged a 3-0 loss to the Paladins in Kingston, Ontario, last season and made Army 11-1-2 in the last 14 games against RMC. The Black Knights have won seven straight at home against RMC and lead the overall series 36-28-6. It was the most one-sided contest in the series since Armys 6-0 victory in 1994.
Leading 2-1 midway through the second period, Army junior Joe Carpenter, playing his first full game in more than two months, scored a power-play goal to give the Black Knights (10-15-1) a two-goal cushion and RMC (8-21) would never again threaten.
Fishers second goal of the night made it 4-1 with 1:04 remaining in the second period, and junior Nathan Mayfield, sophomore Nic Serre and senior K.C. Finnegan tacked on third-period tallies to put the contest out of reach.
Carpenter added an assist for a two-point night. Senior captain Mike Fairman had three assists, while Mayfield (goal, assist) and freshman Alex Rogosheske (two assists) also had multi-point nights.
Senior Garrett Brougham gave Army a 1-0 lead when he knocked in a Fairman rebound on the power play at 17:41 of the first period. Fisher made it 2-0 at 2:59 of the second, but Marc Granlund answered right back with RMCs only goal of the night, coming 57 seconds after Fishers tally.
Fisher now has at least one point in nine straight games and his two goals give him 14 this season.
Fairman is six points shy of 100 for his career.
Army is home against Sacred Heart tonight and hosts Fairfield Saturday both games start at 7 p.m.