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HAMILTON – For a second straight night, goaltender Colton Point (North Bay, Ontario) played phenomenally as he made 31 saves but the No. 19 Colgate men's ice hockey team couldn't complete a comeback in a 2-0 loss to the No. 4/4 Cornell Big Red.
 
A Class of 1965 Arena record 2,422 people attended Saturday night's game, besting the two previous sellout records by 200 fans.
 
Colgate's offense came alive in the third period as they outshot Cornell 11-7 but couldn't get one past Big Red goaltender Matthew Galajda.
 
Point was stellar through the first two periods, making 25 saves and keeping the Raiders in the 1-0 game.
 
Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) had one of Colgate's best offensive chances of the game with a breakaway coming just over six minutes into the second period. He skated one-on-one with Galajda who made a pad save sliding to his right to stop Panowyk's shot.
 
Cam Donaldson put the Big Red on the board with 3:26 to go in the second period. After picking the pocket of a Colgate defenseman, Donaldson sprinted towards the goal before sneaking one just between Point's blocker and the post.
 
Kyle Betts added a second goal for the Big Red with 9:19 to go in the second period on a wraparound that just snuck under Point.
 
BOTTOM LINE
No. 4/4 Cornell 2, No. 19 Colgate 0
 
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Raiders fell to 10-10-4 (6-5-1 ECAC Hockey) with the loss while the Big Red improve to 16-2-1 (10-1-1 ECAC Hockey) to extend their unbeaten streak to eight games.
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Point made 31 saves Saturday night just one day after making 27 against the Big Red at Lynah Rink
-Paul Meyer (Edina, Minnesota) blocked five shots for the Raiders while Ken Citron (Cos Cob, Connecticut) was second in the game with four blocked shots
-Adam Dauda (Kitchener, Ontario) won a game-high 10 faceoffs in 16 chances
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Cornell held a 33-23 advantage over Colgate in shots despite the Raiders 11-7 edge in the third period
-Neither team was successful on the power play as the Big Red went 0 for 3 and the Raiders went 0 for 2
-Colgate won the faceoff battle for a second straight night, 27-23, behind Dauda's 10 faceoff wins
 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head coach Don Vaughan
"We competed hard. Cornell's a really good team, they're not No. 4 in the country by accident. Tonight, we hurt ourselves a little bit more than last night. We turned the puck over way too much tonight and some of that is a result of the pressure they put on you but there were times tonight where we were unloading the puck unnecessarily. As a result, you're chasing it a bit and not making plays. We need to make plays, it's obvious, we haven't scored in two games so we've got to find a way to generate some offense."
 
"We settled down in the third, it was another great third period. We had some great opportunities and good looks but you don't get many second and third chances against that team."
 
"Colton was solid, he was tested more last night than tonight. They didn't have a ton of Grade A scoring chances, he had a couple big saves including the one on the breakaway as did their guy. It was a pretty even battle back-and-forth with the goaltenders tonight. Colton has given us a chance to win every night and that's what good goalies do."
 
UP NEXT
No. 19 Colgate hits the road next weekend to face another pair of Ivy League opponents as the Raiders face the Dartmouth Big Green (8-10-2, 6-6-1 ECAC Hockey) Friday night at Thompson Arena at 7 p.m. before traveling to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to face the Harvard Crimson (9-6-4, 8-3-3 ECAC Hockey) at Bright-Landry Hockey Center on Saturday at 3 p.m.