Box Score ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – The Brock Badgers men's hockey team (7-8-3 OUA West) earned a pivotal two points in Wednesday's 4-3 shootout win over the York University Lions (8-8-1 OUA West).

York opened the scoring at 2:01 of the first period when Adam Logozzo potted his first career OUA goal, assisted from John De Gray and Chad Hohmann.

Midway through the first, Matt Abercrombie (Sarnia, Ont.) scored his 50th career OUA goal and 8th of the season on a pass from Johnson Andrews while on the man advantage.

After each team trade goals in the opening frame, Brock took its first lead of the game on a skilled play by Andrew Radjenovic (Hamilton, Ont.), who beat Chris Perugini for his fifth of the season. Mike McGurk and Dylan MacEachern each tallied assists on the goal.

Brock would bolster its lead when Thomas Stajan (Mississauga, Ont.) set up Abercrombie, who buried his second of the game with eight seconds left in the second period.

York fought back in the third period, with goals at 7:50 and 14:55 by John De Gray and Tyler McGee, respectively, to tie the game at 3-3 and force overtime.

Scoreless through the extra frame, with several excellent stops by Brock's Adrian Volpe (Burlington, Ont.) and York's Chris Perugini, resulted in a shootout to decide the outcome.

Radjenovic, Abercrombie and Tanel were all stopped through the opening round of the shootout, with Volpe denying the three York shooters bearing down on him at the other end.

With a sudden death scenario and important divisional points on the line, Sammy Banga (Windsor, Ont.) went to his backhand and beat Perugini to lift the Badgers to victory and move into a three-way tie with York and Waterloo, each with 17 points apiece in the OUA West.

Volpe made 40 saves in the win for the Badgers.

Brock returns to action Friday, January 10th when they host the Lakehead University Thunderwolves at 7:15pm at the Seymour-Hannah Centre.