Box Score
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Brock 4, Guelph 1
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GUELPH, Ont. (November 28, 2013)  – The Guelph Gryphon men's hockey team were defeated by the Brock Badgers on Thursday night with a final score of 4-1 at the Gryphon Centre, dropping the Gryphons to 7-6-2 and moving the Badgers to 6-7-2.
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The Badgers and Gryphons started the game with lots of back and forth action between the evenly matched teams. The Gryphons were finding it hard to outskate the Brock defensemen but still managed to outshoot the Badgers 14-10 in the first period. The Gryphons set up a scoring opportunity with a backhanded pass toÂ
Nicholas Trecapelli who sent the puck across toÂ
Teal Burns who was set up in front of the net, but they were unable to beat the Badger goalie, Dalton McGrath (Toronto, Ont.). The first period ended scoreless, but a penalty on Trecapelli at 19:25 for interference had Brock on the power play for the beginning of the second period.
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Brock's power play turned into a two-man advantage ten seconds into the second period afterÂ
James Merrett was called for slashing. Guelph was able to kill both penalties however and keep the Badgers from scoring. The Gryphons would get another penalty for having too many men on the ice at the five-minute mark, but stellar goaltending skills fromÂ
Keith Hamilton kept the game scoreless.
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The Gryphons would get a man advantage at 8:17 Dylan MacEachern (Mississauga, Ont.) from Brock was called for roughing. Guelph would have a couple of close calls fromÂ
Nicklas Huard andÂ
Robert De Fulviis but were unable to score. Brock would get back-to-back power plays after a penalty onÂ
Philip Teri for slashing at 13:16 and then another Gryphon penalty onÂ
Daniel Broussard for cross checking at 15:20. It would be on the second power play that the Badgers would score the first goal of the game after a pass from Kaine Geldart (Kingston, Ont.) to Thomas Stajan (Mississauga, Ont.) who tipped it in from inside the crease, with Matt Abercrombie (Sarnia, Ont.) also on the assist.
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The Badgers would score again with a minute left in the second period to make it 2-0 after a goal by Andrew Radjenovic (Hamilton, Ont.) with Geldart and Stajan on the assists. The Gryphons would start the third period on a power play.
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Kenneth Peroff started the third period strong for the Gryphons, slapping one in from the blue line on the power play, with Merrett and Burns on the assists to make it 2-1 for Brock. It would be back and forth action for the rest of the period, Brock using their size to box out the Gryphons, but Guelph using their speed to set up shooting opportunities.
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The Badgers would get another power play at 14:45 after De Fulviis was called for hitting to the head. The Badgers would score on the power play after a scrum at the net with Abercrombie pushing the puck past Hamilton, with Dan Tanel (Brampton, Ont.) and Johnson Andrews (Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont.) on the assists.
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The Badgers out scored and out shot the Gryphons with the shots on goal totally 32-27 in favour of Brock.
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The Gryphons hit the ice again on December 29
th against STFX in Antigonish, Nova Scotia with the puck set to drop at 7:00 p.m.Â