WEST POINT, N.Y. – Ben Sharf (Williamsville, New York) scored his second goal in as many weekends Saturday afternoon but the No. 17 Colgate men's ice hockey team fell to the Army West Point Black Knights, 3-1, at Tate Rink.
 
Sharf's goal was his second of the season as he scored the Raiders lone goal in the loss to the Black Knights. Freshman Evan Tschumi (Calgary, Alberta) tallied his first career assist while Trevor Cosgrove (Exeter, New Hampshire) also nabbed an assist.
 
The Black Knights claimed a 1-0 lead with just 1:34 to go in the first period as Brendan McGuire tallied his second goal of the season off a hesitation before rifling the puck past Point.
 
Army West Point grabbed a pair of goals within 4:08 in the second period to take a 3-0 lead over Colgate. Alex Wilkinson scored a power-play goal with 8:23 to go in the second period on a blast from the left wing before Mason Krueger tipped a Wilkinson shot past goaltender Colton Point (North Bay, Ontario) for the third Black Knights' goal.
 
Sharf cut the Black Knights' lead to two just 3:26 into the third period as the Raiders' tried to mount a comeback over Army. Cosgrove blasted a shot from the right point that was tipped by Tschumi and saved by Army goaltender Jared Dempsey. Tschumi tapped the puck back towards the slot where Sharf slid the puck across the line for the goal.
 
BOTTOM LINE
Army West Point 3, No. 17 Colgate 1
 
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Black Knights snapped a six-game winless streak in the win to improve to 7-7-2 while the Raiders fall to 8-5-2 overall.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Sharf's goal was his second of the season
-Tschumi recorded his first collegiate point with an assist on Sharf's goal
-Cosgrove tallied his third assist of the season and fourth point
-Point had 19 saves for the Raiders
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Raiders outshot the Black Knights, 25-22, with a 10-6 edge in the second period
-Army picked up a power play goal to go 1 for 3 with the edge while Colgate went 0 for 4
-The Raiders had the 31-21 edge in faceoffs led by Josh McKechney's (Calgary, Alberta) game-high 12 faceoff wins
 
GATE GRAB BAG
-Attendance at Tate Rink was 2,321
 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Don Vaughan
"It's disappointing, we knew they were going to come out hard and they won most of the one-on-one battles tonight. They went hard to the net, that's how they scored their goals. We can't fault Colton, he couldn't see them half the time because they were bouncing off people in front of him.
 
"I was disappointed we didn't have an answer with our energy, we talk a lot about energy and I didn't think we had it tonight. It's back to the drawing board and we're going to have to play much better next Friday night."
 
UP NEXT
No. 17 Colgate men's ice hockey wraps up the 2017 calendar year on Friday night at UConn with puck drop set for 7 p.m. at the XL Center in Hartford, Connecticut.