NIAGARA UNIVERSITY, N.Y. — Colgate dropped a 3-2 overtime decision to Niagara Saturday afternoon at Dwyer Ice Arena, despite a dominating performance that saw the Raiders outshoot the Purple Eagles 48-21.
Niagara's Shane Ott netted the game-winner a minute and two seconds into overtime. The goal came after back-fourth scoring during regulation as Colgate tied it up twice after falling behind.
Neither team could pull ahead in the first as the period ended with the score 0-0. Colgate had a pair of power plays in the opening period that it could not take advantage of.
Seven minutes into the game, the Raiders got awarded their first man-advantage after the Purple Eagles got called for interference. The second came with 4:44 remaining on another interference call. Colgate also logged two penalty kills in the first 20 minutes of action.
Niagara scored the game's first goal with 12:40 remaining in the second after a pair of tripping calls put Colgate down two men. Josef Mysak passed to Casey Carreau, who ripped a one-time shot into the back of the net from the left face-off circle.
Less than two minutes later, Colgate drew even off a goal from
Simon Labelle. A face-off win by
Daniel Panetta got picked up by
Nick Anderson, who fired a shot from the left wing that got saved. Labelle was able to finish off the rebound to tie it up at 1-1.
The Purple Eagles regained the lead with 8:16 remaining. Tic-tac-toe passes led to an open shot for Glebs Prohorenkovs that he fired into the goal.
Matt Verboon knotted it up at 2-2 with just under a minute and a half left in the middle frame after the Raiders went on a power play for a tripping call. Anderson played the puck to Verboon, who passed to
Colton Young. He started to skate behind the net before playing a backward pass back to Verboon, who sent a one-timer into the goal.
The score remained 2-2 after the third, despite the Raiders outshooting Niagara 22-4 in the final period.
Andrew Takacs made his first career start in goal, tallying 18 saves. The freshman recorded some big stops in the third to keep the game tied.
In overtime, Ott slid a shot into the goal on a breakaway to give Niagara the victory.
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Don Vaughan
"A great response by our group tonight. Obviously, it's not the result we wanted, but the effort was there from every guy up and down the lineup. When you fire 48 shots on net to their 21 as a team, you are doing something right. It didn't go our way tonight, but results will come down the road if we can consistently put forward that effort. It goes without saying that next weekend's league games are huge. We will get back to work on Monday to prepare as we always do."
UP NEXT
The Raiders return to conference play next weekend when they welcome Dartmouth and Harvard to the Class of 1965 Arena. Opening face-off is at 7 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
