The Varsity Blues men’s hockey team scored four third-period goals to come away with a 6-2 victory over the No. 9 Concordia Stingers on Saturday, October 30 at Varsity Arena.

First-year forward Michael Markovic of Toronto opened the scoring when he finished off a passing play with Paul Dupont just six minutes into the game.

The Blues went up by two eight minutes into the second frame when rookie forward Blake Boddy of Ajax, Ont., received a cross-ice pass from Kyle Ventura and made no mistake, roofing the puck into the top corner of the net.

The Stingers finally got on the board midway through the period when Charles-Antoine Messier took advantage of a Concordia powerplay by picking up a rebound in front of the net and sending it over the glove of Blues goaltender Andrew Martin.

Toronto held a 2-1 lead heading into the third.

The Blues opened the flood gates in the final frame, scoring four goals in less than five minutes. After attempting to warp the puck around the net, Dupont of Sault Ste Marie, Ont., picked up his own rebound and roofed the puck over the shoulder of Stingers goaltender Maxime Joyal.

Just over two minutes later, Robert Kay jumped on a loose puck in the crease to score Toronto’s lone powerplay marker of the game. Boddy followed that up with his second goal of the night when he deked around a Concordia defenceman and slid the puck along the ice into the left side of the net.

Blues assistant captain Dan Brewer of Cambridge, Ont., rounded out U of T’s scoring when he buried a rebound off of Matt Walter’s point shot with just over eight minutes remaining.

George Lovatsis would score once more for Concordia at the 13:44 mark of the third period.

Boddy was named the Varsity Blues player of the game for his two-goal performance. Martin made 30 saves in the victory.

The Varsity Blues return to action next Friday, November 5 when they travel to Montreal to take on the McGill Redmen. The puck drops at 7 p.m.

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