LAUREL, MD (September 30, 2006) -- Junior Nick Schwob scored a pair of goals, including the game winner with four minutes left in the third period, to lead Navy's ice hockey team to an 8-6 season-opening win over the University of Maryland Saturday night at Garden's Ice House in Laurel, MD. With the win, Navy is 1-0 on the young season. Last weekend's scheduled opening game was cancelled and will likely not be re-scheduled. The Midshipmen threatened to turn the game into a rout early by scoring the first three goals of the game, starting with a Kevin Krmpotich tally at 4:13 while Navy enjoyed a two-man advantage, with classmates Jay Alspach and Alex Sandroni picking up assists. Sophomore Charlie Daniel then extended the Mids' lead to 3-0 with goals at 6:53 and 10:38. Maryland scored twice before the first period ended to pull the Terps within 3-2 and then tied the game at 3-3 early in the second period, but later in the second stanza senior Patrick Sullivan scored an exciting shorthanded breakaway goal to give Navy a 4-3 lead after two periods. In the third, senior Jay Alspach just 13 seconds after the opening face-off, followed by a breakaway tally from Schwob at 1:30 to give Navy a seemingly commanding 6-3 advantatge. But Maryland pulled within 6-5 with goals at 1:48 and 10:10 -- the second coming on a power play. Schwob picked up his second goal of the night at 16:04 off a beautiful pass from senior assistant team captain Joe Liles at 16:04, while the Mids were on a power play, to put the game away. Sophomore Matt Gross had the other assist. The pesky Terps pulled within 7-6 at 17:19, but Krmpotich scored a shorthand empty net goal at 18:46 to give the Mids the final magin of victory. Sandroni had the lone assist on the Krmpotich goal, the second of the night for the senior co-captain, who stole the puck off a Maryland forward's stick and fed the puck to Krmpotich, who slid it into the empty net. Junior Sean Ublacker started in goal for Navy and made 7 saves in his 29:12 of work. Roughly halfway through the game, as planned before the game by the Mids' coaches, Ublacker was replaced by freshman Eric Anderson. In his first action ever in a Navy uniform, the Minnesota native made 12 saves in his 30:48 in the nets. Senior Jerone Chernock recorded 27 saves for Maryland, as Navy outshot the Terrapins, 34-25. Navy plays its second game of the season at Lehigh tomorrow (Sunday), with the opening face-off set for 3:00 p.m. Lehigh's scheduled season-opener at Towson last night was postponed. SCORING SUMMARY First Period N - Krmpotich 1( Alspach, Sandroni) 4:13 PP N - Daniel 1 (Johnson, Stoner) 6:53 N - Daniel 2 (Stoner, Swezey) 10:38 M - Oesterling (Torre, Zeniewski) 11:19 M - Cullinan (Costello, Gerding) 12:31 Second Period M - Steinberg (Gardner, Cullinan) 7:00 N - Sullivan 1 (Sandroni) 14:00 SH Third Period N - Alspach 1 (Sullivan, Liles) 0:13 N - Schwob 1 (Westerman) 1:30 M - Ryan 1:48 M - Oesterling 10:10 PP N - Schwob 2 (Liles, Gross) 16:04 PP M - Henninger 17:19 N - Krmpotich 2 (Sandroni) 18:46 empty net SAVES Ublacker (Navy) 6 - 1 - x -- 7 Anderson (Navy) x - 3 - 9 -- 12 Chernock (Md) 8 - 7 - 12 -- 27 SHOTS NAVY 11 - 8 - 15 -- 34 Maryland 8 - 5 - 12 -- 25