ROCHESTER, NY – The RIT men's hockey team (1-2-0) fell to No. 7 Boston College by a score of 6-2 before a sellout crowd of 10,556 loud, orange clad fans at Blue Cross Arena as the focal point of RIT's Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend.

The contest marked the fifth straight sellout at Blue Cross Arena for the annual homecoming contest.

The Eagles broke open a scoreless game by scoring four times in a span of 7:46 over the end of the first period and start of the second stanza. Six different Eagles, including four defensemen scored goals. Teddy Doherty had a goal and two assists, while Ryan Fitzgerald added a goal and an assist. Michael Matheson, Steve Santini, Alex Tuch, and Ian McCoshen scored for Boston College, while Zach Sanford had three assists and Brendan Silk added two helpers.

Boston College goaltender Thatcher Demko picked up his first win of the season, stopping 25 of 27 RIT shots.

Todd Skirving (Thunder Bay, Ontario/Sioux Falls Stampede) and Matt Garbowsky (St. George, Ontario/Powell River Kings) scored for the Tigers, who fall to 6-10-1 all-time at Blue Cross Arena and 2-5-1 in Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend games at Rochester's downtown arena.

In goal, Mike Rotolo (Rochester, NY/Cedar Rapids Roughriders) made his first start of the season, stopping 28 shots in defeat.

Boston College out-shot RIT, 34-27. Both teams were 1-for-4 with the man-advantage.

"Boston College is a quick team and we were spectators tonight," said RIT head coach Wayne Wilson. "We needed to move our feet more and win more puck battles. We did not get to generate a lot of excitement, as their defense controlled our forwards."

The Eagles tallied the only goal in a sloppily played first period. RIT had just one shot over the first 17 minutes of period, as Boston College held an 8-4 edge in shots.

Rotolo had to come up huge midway through the period, as a shot from Matheson went wide off the back boards, but caromed right to Chris Calnan at the right side of the RIT net. Rotolo had to slide across to make two huge saves on the stuff in attempt.

Boston College struck first with 1:14 left in the opening period, as Matheson converted a perfect feed from Fitzgerald on a 4-on-2 rush for his first goal of the season, giving the Eagles a 1-0 lead. Sanford dropped a pass to Fitzgerald at the RIT line. Fitzgerald then threaded a perfect cross-ice feed to Matheson, who was able to beat a sliding Rotolo cleanly from the slot.

The floodgates opened for Boston College, as they scored twice in a span of 25 seconds and three times in 3:58 to break the game open in the second period.

Fitzgerald buried his own rebound over the shoulder of Rotolo in front off a pass from Austin Cangelosi 2:34 into the period to make it 2-0. Just 25 seconds later, Doherty was the recipient of a perfect feed from Cam Spiro on a 2-on-1 break to make it 3-0. Santini made it 4-0 at the 6:32 mark, converting from in close on another odd-man rush.

Skirving broke Boston College's shutout bid 1:06 into the third period, wheeling around after RIT kept the puck in the Eagles zone, and firing s shot from the right side past Demko for his first goal of the season. Danny Smith (Edmonton, Alberta/Sherwood Park Crusaders) and Myles Powell (Courtenay, British Columbia/Cowichan Valley Capitals) assisted on the tally.

Tuch made it 5-1 for the Eagles at the 5:55 mark, deftly redirecting a pass from Doherty in front past Rotolo while the two teams were playing 4-on-4.

At the 14:21 mark, Garbowsky put home his own rebound on the power-play to make it 5-2. Brady Norrish (Strongfield, Saskatchewan/Yorkton Terriers) wheeled at the point and fed Brad McGowan (Langley, British Columbia/Surrey Eagles), who tucked a pass to Garbowsky in the slot. Garbowsky had his first shot stopped by Demko, but he was able to fire the rebound over the goaltender's shoulder for his first goal of the season.

Norrish's assist was his first collegiate point.

McCoshen finished the scoring with 2:34 left, ripping a blast from the right point past Rotolo on the power-play.

"We have to build off this game," said Wilson. "We have expectations of our own, we would have liked to play better tonight, and maybe we respected them a little too much."

Tonight's game was the second meeting between the two schools, as Boston College defeated RIT, 6-0 in the championship game of Minnesota's Dodge Holiday Classic on Dec. 30, 2007.

Before the game, RIT wore special warm up jerseys in the warm up that were auctioned off via silent auction during the game, with proceeds going towards international tiger conservation efforts, as part of the university's Tigers for Tigers organization.

RIT head coach Wayne Wilson and associate head coach Brian Hills played for current Boston College head coach Jerry York at Bowling Green State University in the early 1980s.

The Tigers return to action on Friday and Saturday, venturing west to open Atlantic Hockey Association play at league rival Air Force. Both games get underway at 9:05 p.m. EST.