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GENESEO, N.Y. <\/strong>– There’s hot. There’s sizzling. And then there’s Geneseo.<\/p>\n The Ice Knights would make the sun put on shades. After breezing through the SUNYAC playoffs, 4-1, 6-1, and 7-1, Geneseo took it to yet another level in the first round of the NCAA playoffs, crushing Salve Regina, 7-1.<\/p>\n “We played a pretty good game,” Geneseo coach Chris Schultz said. “We created a lot of offense on them in their zone through creativity and mostly our top line.”<\/p>\n That top line amounted to the first five goals, with Anthony Marra notching a hat trick and an assist, Trevor Hills getting two of them along with three assists and Stephen Collins credited with two assists.<\/p>\n “They got a lot of hockey sense and know where each other are on the ice all the time,” Schultz continued.<\/p>\n “We’re all healthy,” Hills said of the first line’s hot play. “Teams are keying in on us a little bit more which is opening up more space, surprisingly enough.”<\/p>\n “We compliment each other really well,” Marra said. “Thirty games on, you develop really good chemistry. Just clicking right now.”<\/p>\n The Seahawks came into the game without letting up a single postseason goal. That ended 33 seconds into the game when Hills backhanded a loose puck in front of the net for the early lead.<\/p>\n “My dad actually texted me before the game and told me to get on them quickly,” Hills said. “We actually did. They’re a road team coming in here, and we put them down quickly 1-0, and went from there and never looked back.”<\/p>\n “They buried early, got some momentum,” Salve Regina coach Andy Boschetto said. “They took the momentum and ran with it.”<\/p>\n Hills scored his second in a row, following up his own rebound to end the first period, 2-0. The goal was his 22nd of the year, tying him with Collins for tops in the nation.<\/p>\n Once again, Geneseo scored early in a period, this time 36 seconds into the second when Marra took a cross ice pass at the backdoor and easily redirected it in. Salve Regina immediately called time out.<\/p>\n Boschetto told his players, “We had never been here before. Take it as an opportunity, not as a challenge. Play for the opportunity to go out there and prove something to people that don’t know anything about Salve Regina.”<\/p>\n It helped for 14 minutes until Marra got his second in a row. Another cross-ice pass gave him an easy one-timer on the power play.<\/p>\n “They gave me a couple of empty nets there tonight,” Marra said referring to his teammates’ passes. “I was happy to bury them.”<\/p>\n Salve Regina broke the shutout on its own power play when Jonathan Felteau lifted a loose puck over the prone goalkeeper.<\/p>\n Devin McDonald maintained his streak of only letting up one goal in each of the postseason games. He made 28 saves and is now 8-0-4 in his last 12 starts.<\/p>\n Another power play gave Marra the hat trick with 40 seconds left in the second. Once again, he received a pass on the left side before placing it behind Blake Wojtala for the 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n Throughout the playoffs, Geneseo has never let its foot off the pedal, no matter the score or the time left in the game.<\/p>\n The Ice Knights scored two more times late in the final period to wrap up the scoring. Arthur Gordon scored on a power play (Geneseo went three-for-six), and Nate Brown scored his first goal of the season in the last minute.<\/p>\n The scariest moment of the game for Geneseo was when Hills was hit in the foot by a slap shot from his own teammate early in the third period. He left the ice in obvious pain.<\/p>\n “It will be fine,” Hills said after the game. “I’m going to ice it this week. We’ll be ready to go on Saturday.”<\/p>\n Salve Regina ends its season at 17-11-1 and a first appearance in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n “We’re proud of what we accomplished,” Boschetto said. “Obviously, we would have liked to finish a little bit better tonight. Sometimes that’s the way the game goes. We need to keep getting better. That’s what we’ve done the last five years. We’ll be back.”<\/p>\n Geneseo’s (19-4-6) season continues as it will host Williams, which defeated Salem State, 7-1, next Saturday in the NCAA quarterfinal round. Geneseo beat Williams, 3-0, back in November.<\/p>\n “I think we’re clicking at the right time of the year,” Hills said. “You want to be at your best at the end of the season. I think as a team we are.”<\/p>\n How much hotter can Geneseo get?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [photoshelter-gallery g_id=”G0000r4vQBoZD8cs” g_name=”20160312-Salve-Regina-Geneseo-AngeloLisuzzo” f_show_caption=”t” f_show_slidenum=”t” img_title=”casc” pho_credit=”iptc” f_link=”t” f_bbar=”t” fsvis=”f” width=”500″ height=”375″ bgcolor=”#AAAAAA” bgtrans=”t” btype=”old” bcolor=”#CCCCCC” crop=”f” trans=”xfade” tbs=”4000″ f_ap=”t” linkdest=”c” f_fullscreen=”f” f_constrain=”f” twoup=”f” f_topbar=”f” f_bbarbig=”” f_htmllinks=”f” f_enable_embed_btn=”f” f_show_watermark=”f” f_send_to_friend_btn=”f” f_smooth=”f” f_mtrx=”f” f_up=”f” target=”_self” wmds=”llQ6QNgpeC.p1Ucz7U.f3NktKr2vTPwzLHM3YbM4rJHTIaUl9sePBaEvC4PJABoAZ4rEOw–” ] GENESEO, N.Y. – There’s hot. There’s sizzling. And then there’s Geneseo. The Ice Knights would make the sun put on shades. 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