Word: switaj
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...fans if was the reward for suffering through the agonizing near misses of recent years, and theirs was the only section of the Garden which hadn't cleared out by the final siren. As a maroon and gold flag was waved in the balcony seats. Eagle senior Billy Switaj who stopped 31 Northeastern shots in the game, accepted his Eberly Trophy as the tourney's best goalie and freshman winger Bob Sweeney, who scored two goals last night and set up the typing and winning goals last week against Harvard was named...
...Crimson took a one goal lead into the final stanza, thanks to a Code pass which launched Shayne Kukulowicz on a break a way Switaj made the stop, but the puck trick led behind him, allowing the junior right wing to hit the back of the net at the 15 58 mark
...tying goal 1:24 later, Sweeney, who later set up the game winner, slid the puck across the crease to an unguarded BlossomCrimsonTimothy W. PlassGREG CHALMERS scores one of his three goals (according to the press box consensus; the officials credited him with two) past B.C.'s BILLY SWITAJ in the Eagles' Beanpot victory last night. The newly-formed line of Chalmers, Greg Britz and Tony Visone almost won it for Harvard, but B.C. struck late in regulation and in overtime to send the Crimson to the consolation round...
...both the third stanza and after the end of regulation play, it was a B C stick that swept in the winning goal. Harvard had had all the best chances the extra man in overtime, the Dave Burke shot that bounced off the goal post But Eagle goalie Billy Switaj made the key stops and the Crimson shots couldn't negotiate those last few inches from the front of the crease to the back of the goal line...
While Harvard knocked at Switaj's door, B.C. seemed stymied by the stellar defensive plays of Mark Fusco and Ken Code, "B.C. didn't really generate anything [near the end]. We had more chances," Clearly said after the contest. "It's just one of those things...