LOS ANGELES, Calif. — No. 10 Occidental (7-16, 1-6 SCIAC) lost to No. 6 Whittier (13-10, 4-4 SCIAC) 19-17 on Wednesday. Occidental outshot Whittier 34-32, but finished with six power-play goals and two penalty-shot goals while Whittier had seven and three.
Occidental got off to a hot start, taking control of the game for the greater parts of the first half.
Joey Gutierrez opened the scoring with a quick shot off an arching pass from
Lars Schubert on the Tigers' first possession.
Miles McDaniel, who had his best collegiate game with a hat trick, ended the frame with a goal, giving Oxy a 5-4 advantage.Â
Danny Miller scored at 7:03 and
Atticus Wahab-Holles followed at 6:15 early in the second quarter, but Whittier answered with two Jason Dickson goals before
Nicholas Karamian scored for Occidental at 4:03 and 3:06. The Poets took control late in the third and ended the half with a one point lead.
Whittier then put together four consecutive goals, spanning from the second to the third.Â
Oxy kept it close through the second half, tying the game at 14-14 with a McDaniel goal early in the fourth quarter. Whittier, however, went on a 4-0 run to put the game out of reach. Exclusions plagued the Tigers as multiple Tigers earned three ejections on the night.
Karamian led Occidental with five goals on nine shots. McDaniel scored three goals and added an assist on four shots.
Danny Miller finished with two goals and an assist on two shots.
Will Garcia posted six saves and collected two steals in goal.
