Westfield State’s Lenny Caglianone carries the puck along the boards against Plymouth State on Saturday. (Rick Sgalia photo/WSU)
WESTFIELD – Plymouth State rallied from deficits of 2-0 and 3-2 to top Westfield State by a 6-3 final in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference game at Amelia Park Ice Arena on Saturday evening.
Plymouth’s Chris Zuccaro (Hudson, N.H.) tallied back to back goals in the third period, tying the game at 3-3 with 6:04 left in the game when he redirected Ian McGlivrey’s (Omaha, Neb.) shot from the top of the right penalty circle. He added what proved to be the game winner 1:59 later with the Panthers shorthanded, flipping a shot from the blueline towards the net for a 4-3 Panthers lead.
Plymouth added a pair of empty netters late from McGilvray and Ludvig Steenberg (Stockholm, Sweden).
The Panthers improve to 6-3 on the season and 5-1 in the MASCAC. Westfield drops to 6-4 overall and 4-3 in the league.
Westfield had taken a 1-0 lead midway through the first period with Josh Delezenne (Coral Springs, Fla.) scoring with assists from Jackson Leef (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and F.X. Girard (St. Lazare, Quebec). Westfield extended the lead to 2-0 less than three minutes into the second period, with Girard tallying with assists from Lenny Caglianone (Matawan, N.J.) and Leef.
Plymouth tied the game 2-2 with a pair of goals from Mike Economos (Crystal Lake, Ill.) in the second period.
Westfield grabbed the lead late in the second on an unassisted tally from Donovan Gardiner.
Zuccaro and Economos each finished with two goals and two assists for Plymouth. Theirry Messervier (Montreal, Quebec) stopped 22 shots in goal to earn the win for the Panthers.
Kameron Limberg (Howell, Mich.) finished with 30 saves in net for Westfield. – Courtesy of Westfield State University Sports
