The Terriers overcame a 3-1 deficit in the final minute to beat Miami Terriers Take the Top Prize University in overtime for the national championship. A jubilant Men’s beats Miami 4-3 in NCAA victory welcomed the team home with a rolling rally along In the final minute Then, with fifty-nine Gilroy, National Hockey Commonwealth Avenue. of regulation play seconds left, Zach Cohen League contracts for Gilroy, in the 2009 NCAA (CAS’10) scored on a low- Colin Wilson (CAS’11), and angle shot. Next, with John McCarthy (CAS’09) — hockey champi­ seventeen seconds to go, and, in the tradition of onship, BU fans cocaptain great Boston sports teams, collectively held (MET’09) sent the puck to a rolling rally aboard their breath. The (CAS’11), who Duck Tour vehicles from Terriers were trail­ fired the game-tying shot, Kenmore Square to Marsh sending fans into a frenzy Plaza, where Terrier fans ing Miami (Ohio) and the championship welcomed their national University 3-1, and contest into sudden death. champions home for a cam­ Coach Minutes later, a shot by pus celebration. (SMG’68, Hon.’97) Colby Cohen (CAS’11) deflected off Miami de­ had pulled the do- fenseman Kevin Roeder and or-die switch — he slipped into the Miami took goalie Kieran , and the Boston Uni­ Millan (CAS’12) off versity men’s hockey team the ice and sent six became the national champions for the first time attackers in. since 1995. “It’s the greatest comeback I’ve ever been involved in,” Parker said afterwards. Web extra Watch slide shows and videos from the The team finished the hockey team’s road season with a school-record- to the championship at setting thirty-five victories,

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