B.U. Deals Freshmen First Rink Loss

A hard-skating B.U. Junior Varsity powered by John Bethel's hat trick snapped the freshman hockey team's unbeaten skein at Walter Brown Memorial rink yesterday. The Crimson bowed 5-3 after surging to a 3-1 first period lead. Four consecutive B.U. goals went unaswered while the Crimson netminder John Phillips steered aside 30 shots.

B.U. drew first blood but defenseman John Cochrane knotted the score with a power play goal, unleashing the slapper from the right face off circle.

The Crimson's next scoring rush was capped by a Mike Stewart to Randy Millen cross-ice pass. Millen decked his man and drilled a screen shot that nestled in the corner twines. Harvard's second line of Doug Thompson, Dave Schuster, and Dave Mckinnon teamed up for a picture-perfect goal that closed out the period's scoring.

B.U.'s scoring punch revived in the second period while tenacious forechecking coupled with a goalie's substitution shut down the Crimson's attack. The harrassed Harvard defense had trouble clearing and eventually handed the puck over to Bethel, who rammed his second tally past Phillips. clawed to a 3-3 deadlock after Matty Marten split Phillips's pads with a blast from the right-slot.

The freshmen had numerous opportunities to battle back especially in the waning moments, when B.U. had only three men on the ice but cleared twice before the Crimson could even muster a shot on goal.

B.U. closed out its barrage when Bethel stuffed his third goal into the net off a faceoff and Marden flicked a point blank shot that caromed off Phillips's skate.

The squad took some minor solace in the thought of the coming rematch, with B.U. The freshmen take to the ice against their first Ivy competition this Saturday when they square off against Brown.