2005-06
CHA All-Academic...Dressed in games vs. Cornell (11/25-26), Robert Morris (12/10) and Alabama-Huntsville (1/21).
2004-05
CHA All-Academic...Played in eight games, seven on the road, and made seven starts...Stopped a career-high 37 shots against Western Michigan (11/5)...Earned the victory in a 28-save performance at Alabama-Huntsville (12/4), marking his first win in a CHA contest, and also locking up his second career CHA Defensive Player of the Week honors...Tossed aside 29 shots in a victory over Bemidji State (12/11).
2003-04
Appeared in seven contests, starting four...Named CHA Defensive Player of the Week (12/16), after making 14 saves and earning a win vs. UMass.-Lowell (12/14)...Posted a 2-3-0 record in 266 minutes in goal...Ended season with 4.06 goals-against average and .875 save percentage...Started first collegiate game vs. UMass.-Lowell (10/24), making 30 saves...Earned first collegiate win vs. Western Michigan (11/15), making 23 saves...Made a season-high 32 saves vs. eventual-national champion Denver (12/27) in the Wells Fargo Denver Cup...Made 126 saves on the season.
Before Niagara
Spent the 2002-03 season with New York Apple Core of the Eastern Junior Hockey League (EJHL)…Junior teammate of Purple Eagle Pat Oliveto...Helped team to the 2002-03 EJHL Triple Crown, winning conference, league and playoff titles...First Team All-Star with Apple Core in 2002-03…Appeared in 48 games...Had a 1.60 goals-against average and a .932 save percentage…Went 36-9-3 with eight shutouts...Played for Buffalo Lightning of Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League (OPJHL) in 2001-02...Graduated from Spencerport High School in 2002...Team MVP as a freshman and a sophomore...Two-time all-conference pick.
Personal
Born March 5, 1984, in Rochester, N.Y....Son of James and Deborah Barton...Has two older sisters, Lindsay and Elizabeth...Besides hockey, lists golf as his hobby...Lists his favorite athlete as Martin Brodeur...Majoring in education...Left catch.
