READING, PA. – The SUNY Morrisville men's ice hockey team opened the 2024-25 season Friday night on the road at host Alvernia University, falling 10-3 in non-conference action in Reading, Pennsylvania.

THE BASICS:

• Final Score: Morrisville 3, Alvernia 10
• Location: BodyZone, Reading, Pa.
• Records: Morrisville 0-1-0, 0-0-0 SUNYAC; Alvernia 1-0-0, 0-0-0 MAC

 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Visiting SUNY Morrisville men's ice hockey allowed five first period goals Friday night in the season opener on the road at Alvernia University, dropping the 2024-25 debut by a final 10-3 in Reading, Pa.
• Alvernia netted their first of the night nearly three minutes into the opening period, before Morrisville responded at 6:33 with a first collegiate score from Maxim Maziarchuk (Staten Island, N.Y.) to even the contest at one.
• Will Jones (Corbeil, Ont.) was credited with the assist on the tally.
• Within minutes, though, the hosts posted four more scores, all within a span of six minutes, to open a 5-1 lead after the opening frame.
• Alvernia added a sixth tally four minutes into the second, before Jones posted the power play score to cut the lead to four, putting away the deflection from Andrew Manley (Whitesboro, N.Y.) at 6:53.
• The hosts notched two more tallies to carry the significant six-goal lead into the second intermission.
• Morrisville had momentum with a goal from Matt Mueller (Cambridge, Ont.) just 1:36 into the third, but that was short lived as Alvernia added their ninth of the night just two minutes later.
• Mueller's score was the first of his collegiate career, with assists being credited to Manley and Noah Patrick (Barrie, Ont.).
• Grant Linville (Edmond, Okla.) recorded 15 stops in net in the first period, registering the loss, before being relieved by Will Goumas (Brampton, Ont.) for the second.
• Goumas added six saves to the Mustang efforts in the frame, before Jeff Dreger (Senoia, Ga.) saw time in net in the third.
• Dreger had 10 saves in the final period for Morrisville.

 
WHAT'S NEXT:
 

• Morrisville will faceoff against Lebanon Valley College tomorrow afternoon. Puck drops at 4 p.m. in Hershey.

 
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