HAMDEN, Conn. – Colgate men's ice hockey freshman goaltender Colton Point (North Bay, Ontario) set a career-high with 45 saves Friday night as the shorthanded Raiders fell to the nationally ranked No. 15/15 Quinnipiac Bobcats, 4-1, at High Point Solutions Arena.
 
Point's 45-save effort was his second career 40-save game after recording 41 against the UConn Huskies in his first career start on Oct. 14. He was peppered with shots all night long, recording 16 saves in the first, 15 in the second and a career-high 18 saves in the third period
 
Raiders' goaltenders now have four 40-plus save performances this season, with Point's 45 saves second only to Charlie Finn's (North Vancouver, British Columbia) 47 saves against Princeton.
 
Quinnipiac was ahead 3-0 over Colgate before Jared Cockrell (Byfield, Massachusetts) tallied his fourth goal of the season to cut the lead to 3-1. John Snodgrass (Eagan, Minnesota) passed the puck up to Brett Corkey (Calgary, Alberta) at the point where he shifted the puck across to Cockrell on the right wing. Cockrell played it back to Corkey in the high slot before trading spots and Cockrell drilled the puck through a perfect screen by Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) in front of Quinnipiac netminder Andrew Shortridge for the power-play goal.
 
Just 35 seconds after Cockrell's goal, the Bobcats scored the final goal of the game to take a 4-1 lead.
 
Point kept the Raiders in the game throughout the third period with his stellar 18-save performance but Colgate couldn't tack on another goal.
 
BOTTOM LINE
Quinnipiac 4, Colgate 1
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
The Bobcats won their second straight game to improve to 13-9-2 (8-5-1 ECAC Hockey) while the Raiders dropped to 4-12-4 (2-5-1 ECAC Hockey).
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Point started back-to-back games for the first time in his career
-His 45 saves stand as a new career-high after making 41 against UConn on Oct. 14
-Cockrell scored his fourth goal of the season, tied with Bobby McMann (Wainwright, Alberta) for the most among Colgate freshmen
-Cockrell also has two power-play goals this season
-Corkey tallied his seventh assist and 11^th point of the season while Snodgrass picked up his team-leading 10^th assist
-Corkey also blocked a game-high five shots while Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) and Jacob Panetta (Belleville, Ontario) had four blocked shots each
-Colgate played with only 10 forwards and seven defensemen due to an illness that took five players from the lineup
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Bobcats outshot the Raiders, 49-25, at High Point Solutions Arena
-Colgate went 1 for 2 on the power play to improve to 18.9 percent on the season and was 2 for 2 on the penalty kill to go to 83.1 percent
-Quinnipiac won the faceoff battle, 32-26, while Evan Peterson (Lakeville, Minnesota) led the Raiders with 11 wins
 
UP NEXT
The Raiders travel down I-95 to Princeton, New Jersey where they will take on the Tigers Saturday night at Hobey Baker Memorial Rink with puck drop slated for 7 p.m.