| 11/20/2002 9:26:20 PM
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GENESEO, N.Y. -- David Bagley scored two goals and added an assist leading the No. 3-ranked Rochester Institute of Technology men's hockey team to a 9-5 victory against Geneseo in his first return to Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena after playing for the Ice Knights from 1999-2001.
Bagley opened the scoring 27 seconds into the game from Sam Hill and Mike Tarantino. The lead was short-lived as Geneseo came out matching the Tigers stick to stick evening the score at 1-1 on Andy Rice's goal 43 seconds later.
The wild scoring flurry continued when Hill connected for one of his two goals on the evening from Bournazakis and Roberto Orofiamma 2:41 into the first. Bournazakis finished with a goal and four assists.
However, Geneseo scored the equalizer once again on Jack Bullard's goal from Andy Rice and Jon Schnepf 36 seconds later.
Ryan Francke and Bournazakis scored the next two Tiger goals at 5:08 and 14:01, respectively to give RIT its first two-goal advantage of the game. Geneseo's Justin Corio made it a one-goal game with three minutes to go in the first period.
Bagley netted his second of the game at 6:45 of the second to rebuild the two-goal cushion, but former Tiger recruit Matt English made it 5-4 just over a minute later.
Orofiamma made it 6-4 on his seventh goal of the season which proved to be the eventual game-winner at 14:08 of the year. However, Geneseo continued to battle with the Tigers cutting the lead to 6-5 on Kris Heeres' goal just over a minute later.
Jason Chafe scored his first of two goal on the evening at 18:57 to rebuild another two-goal advantage and ignited a three goal run to close out the game 9-5 as the Tigers outscored Geneseo 2-0 in the third period.
RIT goaltender Tyler Euverman started the game playing the first two periods and earned his fourth victory of the year allowing all five goals and had 14 stops, while George Eliopoulos appeared in the third making six saves. While, Geneseo goalie Brett Walker played 16:07 of the first period allowing four of the Tigers goals, while Jeff Phelps took the loss allowing five goals and recorded 21 saves.
The Tigers resume their five-game road trip with a non-conference weekend at Johnson and Wales and Wentworth Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 23-24.
