Bill Arnold scored twice as BC pulled away from a 1-1 second-period tie with three goals in the span of less than 2 minutes.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. — Bill Arnold scored twice as third-ranked Boston College pulled away from a 1-1 second-period tie with three goals in the span of 1:38 en route to a 7-2 win over the Maine Black Bears at Conte Forum. Maine falls to 11-8-3 on the season and 5-3-2 in Hockey East play. The Eagles improve to 16-4-3 overall, 10-1-1 in conference play.
BC took the lead at 4:18 of the second period when Scott Savage made a pass from the wall to Arnold stationed just outside the crease. Arnold one-timed the puck past Black Bears goalie Martin Ouellette. The Eagles extended their lead to 3-1 on Arnold’s power-play goal at 5:04; Ian McCoshen made it 4-1 less than a minute later from Patrick Brown and Ryan Fitzgerald.
Stu Higgins netted a power-play goal for Maine with 1:20 left in the period, but Patrick Brown countered for Boston College 1:16 into the third period. Kevin Hayes scored his second and third goals of the game later in the period for the Eagles.
Boston College took a 1-0 lead 1:10 into the game when Hayes put back the rebound of his own shot. Maine tied the game after Dan Renouf’s shot from the blueline hit traffic in front of the goal. With both teams kept poking at the puck, Jon Swavely pushed the puck across the goal line with one second remaining in the period.
QUINCY, Mass. – Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers won the inaugural AVP Boston Open Saturday for their eighth title in 13 AVP beach volleyball events this season.
It’s also their third win in four weeks. That’s not including their world championship victory last month in Gstaad, Switzerland, when they joined women’s winners Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh for an American sweep.
No. 2 Dalhausser and Rogers beat No. 8 Matt Fuerbringer and Casey Jennings in the finals, 21-16, 21-12.
Walsh and May-Treanor advanced to the semifinals with a 21-16, 21-13 victory over Tyra Turner and Rachel Wacholder. Elaine Youngs and Nicole Branagh also advanced to the semis, beating Dianne DeNecochea and Barbra Fontana, 21-19, 21-14. The women’s final is today.
WASHINGTON – Sales of military and commercial aircraft by U.S. manufacturers are forecast to grow at a slower rate next year, an industry group said Thursday.
The Aerospace Industries Association’s annual report forecasts sales by Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and others to rise, on average, by about 6 percent to more than $210.6 billion, with commercial planes, engines and other parts leading the way in 2008.
For 2007, the association estimates that sales climbed 8.5 percent to $198.8 billion. That figure includes $92.5 billion in sales from foreign customers, an increase of $7 billion, or 8.8 percent, from last year’s $85 billion, driven by higher demand for commercial aircraft.
Foreign sales of all U.S. aerospace products in 2007 rose for a second year, accounting for nearly half of the industry’s business. International demand for commercial aircraft was even stronger. As of Sept. 30, foreign customers had placed nearly three-quarters of commercial aircraft orders, which grew to more than 3,000.
Civil aircraft, which accounted for 26.8 percent of industry sales this year, totaled $53.3 billion, topping last year’s $46 billion. That figure is expected to rise 13.3 percent to $60.4 billion in 2008.
Tighter bankruptcy laws and hard lessons from the dot-com bubble have disciplined U.S. carriers to refrain from placing significant orders to recapitalize their fleets, said Richard Aboulafia, an aerospace analyst for the Teal Group Corp.
“On the commercial side, there’s never been this kind of disparity before,” said Aboulafia, as U.S. carriers have struggled with record flight delays, rising fuel costs and obsolete aviation systems.
Matt Grimison, a spokesman for AIA, said the industry is anticipating some level of purchasing by U.S. carriers next year.
As of November, Chicago-based Boeing Co., the world’s No. 2 commercial airplane maker, had received 1,047 commercial plane orders for 2007, beating its 2006 record-setting 1,044 orders.
Despite a six-month delay in the launch of its new 787 “Dreamliner” plane, orders for it are coming in at a steady clip. The company landed 73 new orders for the plane during the third quarter., bringing the order tally to 710.
“There is pent-up demand among the domestic carriers for aircraft,” said Marion Blakely, AIA’s president and CEO.shrinking Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.