Box Score DEARBORN, Mich.--Unbeaten no more. The nation's longest winning streak at 13 games is over.
Freshman
Jacob Holston broke a 3-3 tie with a shorthanded goal in the third period, and sophomore
Brett Tome recorded a season-high 37 saves, to help visiting Lawrence Tech upset Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference frontrunner and No. 15 Michigan-Dearborn, 5-3, at the UM-Dearborn Fieldhouse Ice Arena on Friday evening. The Blue Devils have won three in a row to up their record to 7-6 overall and 7-4 in the WHAC, while the Wolverines suffer their first loss in 14 starts (13-1) and drop to 10-1 in the conference.
Lawrence Tech Highlights
- Graduate student Sean Pilet led LTU with a pair of goals.
- Sophomore Joey Mattevi also had two points with a goal and an assist.
- Tome made three saves after the Wolverines called a timeout with 1:49 left in the game to preserve the win.
UM-Dearborn Highlights.
- Bailey Byrd, Declan Flanagan, Chance Mathews and Brendan West had assists.
- Tanner Beals suffered his first loss of the season (7-1) while making 19 saves.
How it Happened
- Goals scored 33 seconds apart by Mattevi and Pilet staked the Blue Devils a 2-0 lead in the first period.
- Mattevi put the visitors on the scoreboard first off a UMD turnover with an unassisted goal from the right point that deflected off a Wolverine defender with 11 minutes and 46 seconds left.
- Then at the 11:13 mark, sophomore Ian Kuntz intercepted a clearing pass at his offensive blueline and fed Pilet for the tap-in.
- UMD cut the deficit in half on Cullinan's power play goal to close the first period scoring at 8:48 showing on the clock.
- Kimble evened the score 2-2 with 10:18 to play in the second period.
- Pilet restored LTU's lead with a partial breakaway with 16 seconds left in the stanza. After a defensive face-off win by graduate student Thimo Ey, Mattevi chipped a clearing pass from the right-dasher boards to Pilet who collected the puck at center ice and skated into the UMD zone at the left-face circle where he ripped a wrist shot over the goalie's glove into the upper-right corner.
- LTU made it 4-2 with a shorthanded goal midway through the third period. Holston and freshman Christopher Kondiles worked a 2-on-1 for the game-winning marker.
- The Wolverines closed the gap to 4-3 with 6:52 remaining when defenseman Ryan Stanley blasted a slap shot from the blueline.
- Freshman defenseman Johan Palmqvist iced the win on an empty-net goal with 40 seconds left as the Wolverines played 47 seconds with an extra-attacker in hopes of getting the equalizer and send the contest into overtime.
- The Wolverines were 3-for-5 on the power-play.
- LTU was outshot 40 to 24 on the night, but Tome turned aside 14 of 15 shots he faced in the final stanza to hold off UMD.
Beyond the Boxscore
- The Blue Devils snapped a four-game losing streak to the Wolverines.
- Michigan-Dearborn was the last unbeaten team in American Collegiate Hockey Association Division 1 this season.
- The UMD offense is averaging 8.21 goals per game--held to three goals for the first time since a 3-0 win over Concordia-Michigan on Oct. 6.
- The Wolverines gave up five goals in a game since defeating the Cardinals, 8-5, the following day.
- Lawrence Tech is 1-2 versus the Top-25 in 2023-24, while UMD is 7-0 on the road.
Next up, these same two teams will meet tomorrow night at LTU's Farmington Hills Arena for an 8 p.m. opening face-off.
