JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT IT WAS OVER...ECAC EDGES HOCKEY EAST IN SENIOR ALL-STAR GAME

BURLINGTON, VT--The Second Annual Eastern Senior All-Star game provided a surplus of excitment and goals for the 3,203 men's college hockey fans in attendance today as the ECAC all-stars edged the Hockey East seniors, 10-8, in an up-and-down, run-and-gun offensive shootout at the University of Vermont's Gutterson Fieldhouse.

The ECAC team (comprised of players from ECAC Division I, as well as Division II/III all-stars from Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont) took a 3-1 lead at the end of the first period and never trailed in the contest, although the score was tied 4-4, 5-5, 7-7 and 8-8 before J.C. Ruid (F, Univ. of Vermont) finally tallied what turned out to the game-winner at 15:49 in the third period to lift the home team to victory.

Ruid, who finished with a goal and four assists to lead all scorers, was named Most Outstanding Player for the ECAC, while defenseman Hall Gill (Providence College) scored a goal and added two assists to be named MOP for Hockey East squad (comprised of players from Hockey East, --Staff and Wire Reports