YALE at UMASS
SATURDAY, FEB. 29, 2020
GARBER FIELD - AMHERST, MASS.
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Game Notes for YALE

The Bulldogs, appearing at the top of both major national polls this week, take a 2-0 record to Amherst, Mass., this Saturday. Yale is coming off a 12-10 win at No. 1 Penn State last week. This week they get a UMass squad that has already defeated a nationally ranked squad on the road. The Bulldogs, who were ranked third the first two weeks, and Minutemen square off at Garber Field at 1 p.m. in a game that can be seen on LSN.

SERIES
Yale and UMass met last year at New Haven in the regular season and the Bulldogs won that 12-11 in overtime. Yale is 10-19 all-time against the Minutemen, including a pair of wins in 2018. One of those was their only NCAA Tournament meeting, a Yale win at New Haven. The first meeting was 1972, a 13-4 win by UMass at New Haven.

LAST YEAR
The Bulldogs and Minutemen played an OT game last spring in the regular season. Yale overcame an 8-3 deficit in the third quarter, led by eight different goal scorers. The game was decided with 54 second left in the overtime period on a Brian Tevlin pass that was converted by Matt Gaudet. 
 
BULLDOGS
Yale never trailed against the Nittany Lions before taking home a 12-10 win. The visitors enjoyed leads of 6-1, 7-3 and 10-7, though Penn State closed the gap on each of those and had numerous opportunities to even the score. The Elis used eight straight faceoff wins by TD Ierlan to help ignite a big, second-quarter lead. Matt Gaudet, Matt Brandau and Christian Cropp finished with two goals each while the Elis rattled off 42 shots. Brody Wilson made crucial saves throughout the day and finished with 12 against his squad's first nationally ranked opponent. Yale has five games against teams currently listed on the two major polls.
 
MINUTEMEN
UMass (2-2), which opened with a loss to nationally ranked Army and then beat Ohio State on the road, is coming off a win over UMass-Lowell on Tuesday and a 10-9 loss to Harvard last weekend. Gabriel Procyk had five goals and Jeff Trainor had three tallies in the win over the River Hawks at Lowell.