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Teddy Bear Toss Makes National News
CNN Includes UC Event in "Take A Look At This!" Segment
Annual event huge success; area children's charities to benefit
Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu
Utica, NY (12/14/2011) - Apparently CNN was impressed by the spirit and generosity of UC Pioneer hockey fans, as they mentioned Saturday night's Teddy Bear Toss on the national news:http://www.thekdcf.com/2011/12/13/teddy-bear-toss-on-cnn/
The nationally-ranked No. 10 Utica College men's hockey team sold out the Utica Memorial Auditorium for the first time in program-history Saturday night as the Pioneers routed visiting Salve Regina 12-0 in front of 4,000 fans. The Pioneer nation turned out to take part in the seventh annual New York Sash Teddy Bear Toss, and after UC's Ridge Garbutt netted the first goal of the contest with less than five minutes to go in the first period, 4,500+ teddy bears began to fly out onto the ice for collection and distribution to local children throughout the holiday season.
The Pioneers (8-3) wrapped up the weekend series at home with two consecutive shut outs headed into the semester break. They will return to the ice on the road on Dec. 30th when they travel to the Plattsburgh Invitational to take on Castleton State at 4 p.m. The 12-0 win tied the largest margin of victory in the program's 11-year history and 16 of 18 skaters scored at least one point to pace the Pioneers.
