University of Massachusetts Boston men’s ice hockey player Dave Baczkowski (Lancaster, MA) has been named the Eastern College Athletic Conference East Rookie of the Week for the week of January 10-16. Baczkowski earns the award after collecting three points in a pair of games over the weekend. The freshman tallied the game-tying goal at Saint Michael’s College on January 14 and added a pair of assists in the Beacons’ 5-5 tie with the Purple Knights for their first point of the season in ECAC East play.
For the season, the forward ranks fifth on the squad with six points on three goals and three assists, while standing third on the team for his goal total and is tied for the team lead in power play and game-winning goals with one each. His three-point effort at Saint Michael’s was a career-best and his first multi-point outing of the season. A former member of the Lowell Junior Lock Monsters of the Eastern Junior Hockey League, he notched a point in back-to-back games with an assist at Babson College on December 8 and a goal vs. Fitchburg State College on December 28.