(With contributions from Bowdoin College Sports Information)

Huskies Off Until January 6

            BRUNSWICK, Maine -- Junior Peter Cronin (Norwell, Mass.) stopped 22 shots to earn his fourth career shutout leading the Bowdoin College Polar Bears to a 3-0 victory over the visiting University of Southern Maine Huskies in a non-conference game Tuesday evening at Sidney J. Watson Arena.

            The win snapped a two-game losing skid for the Polar Bears and got them back to .500 at 4-4-0 overall.  The Huskies have dropped their last three games, and four of their last five, to fall to 5-7-0 overall.

            Bowdoin grabbed a 1-0 lead late in the first period on a power-play goal from rookie Pat Geary (Libertyville, Ill.).  Classmate Sam Topham (Marshfield, Mass.) and senior Brendan Conroy (Batavia, Ill.) set up Geary for the shot from the left side resulting in his fourth goal of the season.

            USM junior goalie Kyle Shapiro (Ocean, N.J.) kept the Huskies in the game in the second period keeping Bowdoin from adding to its lead by stopping 14 shots.  The Huskies penalty-killing unit came up big midway through the period killing off a 5-on-3 Bowdoin power play that lasted 1:41.

            Rookie Thomas Dunleavy (Darien, Conn.) doubled Bowdoin's lead at 3:02 of the third period when he tipped home a shot from sophomore Jason Cahoon (South Hadley, Mass.).  Senior Matt Sullivan (Duxbury, Mass.) added an empty-net goal with 1:32 to play to ice the game.

            Bowdoin finished the game with a 33-22 advantage in shots on goal, and converted 1 of 4 power-play opportunities while holding USM scoreless on four power plays.  Shapiro was outstanding making 30 saves.

            Southern Maine is off for end-of-the-semester exams and the holidays.  USM returns to the ice on January 6 (7:00 p.m.) when it travels to Skidmore College.  Bowdoin is back in action this weekend playing at Tufts University on Friday (7:00 p.m.) and at Connecticut College on Saturday (3:00 p.m.). 

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