Crimson Sextet Ties B.U., 5-5; Fischer Stars With Three Goals

It took some last minute heroics by the varsity sextet to come back twice in the final period to tie all-American Bob Marquis and his B.U. teammates, then skate through a scoreless sudden death period for a 5-5 standstill at the Arena last night.

The freshman hockey team swarmed all over the Terrier pups for an 8-2 victory in the preliminary game.

So evenly matched were the two teams that the goalies had nearly the same total of saves: Harry Pratt 24 and B.U.'s Ron Tanner 22. One of the few apparent differences in play was the more aggressive forechecking of the Terrier forwards, which pressed the defense into sloppy clearing.

Dave Vietze tallied the tying goal at 18:32 of the third period, after Dick Fischer's hat trick had knotted the count at 4 to 4 just four minutes earlier. Fischer later was helped off the ice with a gash on his forehead that appeared to have been inflicted by the goalie's stick.

The Crimson struck first at 11:42 of the first period, as Fischer tipped in a 15-foot thrust by Bud Higginbottom. The goal came with B.U. a man short on a holding penalty, but on two other occasions the varsity could not even manage a shot at the Terrier goal on power plays.

For seventeen ragged minutes in the second period, play raged with nothing but an occasional offside whistle, before each side exploded with a sterling offensive play. With Dan Dolan of B.U. resting in the penalty box after tripping Mc- Laughlin, Fischer broke around the defense on the left and shot on Tanner. The puck bounced off the backboard, but the center grabbed his own rebound and stuffed it in the cage.

The Terriers struck determinedly after the third period face off, Marquis blasting the puck by Pratt from close range at 0:52, and Keith Forbes scoring at the seven-minute mark.

It took some staunch play by the Crimson to tie the score, but Higginbottom followed up Fischer's 30-foot slap shot to close the gap at 8:19. With two B.U. players sharing the penalty box for seven-men-on-the-ice and elbow infractions at the 13-minute mark, the varsity pressed play at the Terrier end of the rink.

After several near-miss slap shots, McLaughlin drilled the puck at Tanner from 20 feet, and Fischer deflected the shot perfectly for a hat trick and tie score.

All seemed for naught a minute later when Larry Creighton, brother of professional Dave, drilled his own rebound past Pratt to set the stage for Vietze