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Fortunately for the partisan sell-out crowd at Walter Brown Arena and his increasingly worried teammates, senior forward John Bethel came through with three goals, including the winner with only 15 seconds left in regulation, to lead B.U. to a thrilling 4-3 victory last night and a berth at this weekend's ECAC tournament at Boston Garden...
...Bethel's game-clinching tally, a high snapshot from the near face-off circle that sneaked over the left shoulder of Vermont netminder Sylvaine Turcotte and into the upper corner of the net, came little more than a minute after the Terriers had successfully killed off a charging penalty to Daryl MacLeod...
With time running out, Mark Fidler dumped the puck into the Vermont zone in one final attempt to grab a victory without having to wait for the uncertainties of sudden-death overtime. While the Catamount defensemen studied for hourlies, Bethel simply picked up the puck after it bounced off the boards, closed in on the Vermont net, and rapped home a quickie from about 15 feet for only his sixth goal of the season...
...kind of a lucky shot," Bethel said after the game. "It caught the roof...
...Bethel started the comeback and his heroics at 14:54 of the middle stanza when he put a low shot past Turcotte's gloveside for a power-play goal...