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YALE SHUTS OUT MEN'S
HOCKEY, 5-0 December 1, 2001 NEW HAVEN, Conn.--Dan Lombard stopped all 34 shots he faces and Chris Higgins tallied two goals as the Yale men's hockey team handed Colgate a 5-0 ECAC decision before a sellout crowd at Ingalls Rink Saturday night. Lombard, who ran his streak of not allowing a goal to 124:35, picked up his first shutout at Ingalls Rink since blanking Colgate almost exactly two years ago. A Colgate interference penalty in the game's first minute gave Yale the momentum to jump out to a 2-0 lead. First Chris Higgins nailed his team-high fifth goal of the year just 59 seconds in the game. Defenseman Michael Grobe hit Higgins in stride in the Colgate end and the Eli center carried the puck between the circles before firing a low wrister on Dave Cann's glove side. Nathan Murphy's first career goal gave the Blue a 2-0 advantage at 2:23 after a mid-ice pass from Evan Wax. Murphy flew past the Raiders' defense and deked Cann before tucking the puck past his stick inside the left post. The Bulldogs got their first shorthanded goal of the year after a Jason Noe elbowing call late in the first period. Vin Hellemeyer grabbed the puck along the right boards and came in on the Colgate goal with a defenseman trying to cut his angle off. Hellemeyer stayed to the right and fired a low wrister on the short side at 15:38. Dan Lombard, who made a number of big, point-blank saves over the first two periods helped the Elis through consecutive penalties that gave the Raiders 1:01 of two-man advantage play. Colgate outshot the Bulldogs 13-8 in the second but Lombard did not give anything up. Nick Deschenes set up Higgins' second goal of the game with a feed from behind the net. Higgins took it on the backhand and slid the puck past Cann 1:25 into the third stanza, which was Cann's last chance. Senior goaltender Jason Lefevre replaced Cann at the 2:47 mark. Yale made it 5-0 when Deschenes banged home a rebound of Jeff Dwyer's shot at 7:24. The Raiders are off until December 30 when Canisius comes to town for a 3 p.m. game. The Raiders lead the series between the two teams by a 2-0 margin.
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