Griffins Clipped By Spartans
March 4, 2017

Griffins Clipped By Spartans

Head Coach Rory Whipple earns his 300th career win. He is now the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division II history, in his sixth season at UT and now has 72 wins as a Spartan.

TAMPA, Fla. –  The University of Tampa Spartans defeated the Chestnut Hill College Griffins. The victory gives UT head coach Rory Whipple another milestone victory.

INSIDE THE MATCHUP:
Final: Tampa 11, Chesnut Hill 4
Records: Tampa (4-2), Chesnut Hill (1-1)
Location:  Naimoli Family Athletic & Intramural Complex | Tampa Fla.
All-time Series:  Tampa leads the series 2-0, defeating the Griffins each of the past two years.
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HOW IT HAPPENED:

1st Period

  • Sam Watts won the first face-off to start the game for Tampa.
  • Senior Jake Schmidt opened up the firing squad with the first goal of the game at 9:32.
  • Less than one minute later a goal from Chris Vetter, assisted by Bryan Wright gave Tampa a 2-0 lead.
  • C. Vetter struck again at 4:37 to make it 3-0.
  • The Griffins answered back to make it 3-1, Tampa.
  • Matt Vetter had an unassisted goal with 00:02 to end the period with a 4-1 lead over Chestnut Hill. 

2nd Period

  • The first goal of the second came from Jake Mosher McGraw to bring the score to 5-1 over the Griffins. 
  • Chestnut Hill answered back to make it 5-2. 
  • Sophomore Andrew Kew gave Tampa 6-2 lead with 5:27 left on the clock. 
  • Conor Whipple was assisted by Charlie Cummins to end the first half of the game 7-2 over Chestnut Hill.

3rd Period

  • Whipple from C. Vetter at 4:23 to give Tampa an 8-2 lead.
  • Chestnut Hill responded with a goal to make it 8-3 with 2:16 left in the period.
  • Luke Robideaux scored the final goal of the period with an assist from Whipple to make it 9-3 before the final period.

4th Period

  • Kew was the first to score in the period at 11:24.
  • Chestnut Hill answered back two minutes later with a goal to make it 10-4.
  • Kew fired again to give Tampa the lead at 11-4 with 5:00 left on the clock.

INSIDE THE STATS:

  • C.  Vetter had two goals and one assist.
  • Whipple had two goals and one assist.
  • Kew had three goals and two groundballs.
  • Watts went 9-14 with face-off wins and five groundballs.
  • Cummins had five caused turnovers and three groundballs.
  • Marty Heyn had four groundballs and two caused turnovers.
  • Senior A.J. Arnold started and played the entire first half in goal for the Spartans. He would finish with four saves.
  • Bryan Karn played the final 30-minutes in net, coming away with seven saves.

BEYOND THE BOXSCORE:

  • Head coach Rory Whipple hit a career milestone as he now sits at 300 career wins. The all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division II history is in his sixth season at UT and now has 72 wins as a Spartan.

UP NEXT:
 Tampa returns to action on Wednesday against Notre Dame de Namur for an 8:00 p.m., start. Live stats and video will be available through TampaStats.com.

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