NEW HAVEN, Conn. (1/14/06) - The No. 16 Colgate men’s hockey team snapped its six-game winless streak with a 3-1 victory at Quinnipiac on Saturday, Jan. 14, at Yale’s Ingalls Rink. The Raiders improve to 11-6-5 overall this season and 7-2-1 in league play.

Colgate outshot its opponent for the first time in six games, 25-17, including 10-1 in the second period. The Raiders are now 7-0-1 when they outshoot the other team. Colgate sophomore goaltender Mark Dekanich (North Vancouver, B.C.) earned his 10th victory of the season with 16 saves, while QU freshman Bud Fisher took the loss after making 22 stops.

Quinnipiac earned an early 1-0 lead 5:32 into the opening period. The Bobcats were cycling the puck on the power play, when Raider freshman defenseman Nick St. Pierre (St. Etienne, Que.) took a puck to the face and crumpled to the ice. Just as he was recovering, QU’s Matt Sorteberg shook him at the left point and skated toward the high slot where he sent a pass to Brian Leitch low on the right side. Leitch one-timed the puck top-shelf to beat Dekanich.

Colgate freshman David Sloane (Ambler, Pa.) tied it up with his second power-play goal of the weekend at the 10:42 mark. Freshman Peter Bogdanich (Burnaby, B.C.) gained control of the puck in the left corner and sent it around the boards to junior Marc Fulton (Vancouver, B.C.) on the opposite side. Fulton passed it up to Sloane, who fired a laser from the right point.

On Quinnipiac’s first power play of the second period, the Raider penalty kill came alive, creating short-handed breakaway opportunities for seniors Jon Smyth (Markham, Ont.) and Kyle Wilson (London, Ont.), both of which went wide.

The re-energized Raider penalty kill was able to capitalize later in the period. On the first faceoff of Quinnipiac’s second power-play opportunity of the session, sophomore Tyler Burton (Langley, B.C.) won the puck back to St. Pierre. St. Pierre shot from the left circle, and the rebound came to the right of the net, where Burton knocked it in with his body as he was falling down for the first short-handed goal of his career.

Colgate survived two 5-on-3 Quinnipiac power-play chances late in the second. With 1:04 left in a Zac Tataryn (Ottawa, Ont.) minor, Smyth got his second short-handed breakaway chance of the game. He deked Fisher, who flopped on his back to cover the puck. The red light came on, but the referee overruled the goal judge and it was waved off. Early in the third period, Colgate got an insurance goal off a Quinnipiac turnover in its defensive zone. Tataryn picked up the puck to the right of the net and swung it around to freshman Tom Riley (Nepean, Ont.) on the left side. Riley wrapped his shot around the post, and the puck rattled between Fisher’s skates and in.

Colgate begins a four-game homestand when it hosts Clarkson on Friday, Jan. 20, at 7:00 p.m. The game is the first of five Raider home games that will be televised live in central and northern New York on Time Warner Sports Ch. 26.