HAMILTON — Senior forward
Alex DiPaolo matched his season-high with three points, sophomore defender
Antonio Fernandez added a career-high two tallies, and sophomore forward
Jake Schneider scored his first-ever shorthanded goal to help Colgate corral Brown, 5-3.
Nine different Raiders tallied a point in the win that serves as Colgate's first ECAC Hockey victory of the campaign. It is the first time the Raiders triumphed in their ECAC opener since 2019.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Colgate's first line was hot from the first puck drop, as DiPaolo and first-year linemate Max Nagel scored the first two goals of the contest just over two minutes apart.
- Brown halved the deficit with two minutes remaining in the first, but sophomore forward Niko Rexine's first goal of the season to open the second reasserted a two-score lead for Colgate.
- The Bears pulled within one later in the middle stanza, and were poised to strike again after drawing a Raider penalty.
- But Scheider halted the visitor's momentum when he calmly converted a shorthanded breakaway for Colgate's fourth score of the night.
- Brown would not back down, scoring on a prayer from the red line that took an unfavorable bounce for Colgate and again made the contest a one-score affair.
- Fernandez returned the favor, however, cashing in from just inside the Raiders' offensive zone to put the nail in the Bear's coffin and grant Colgate its first ECAC win of the season.
GAME NOTES
- Junior forward Owen Neuharth added his first point of the season with an assist on Rexine's goal.
- Nagel added to his three-game point streak with his second-career goal.
UP NEXT
Colgate (4-4-1, 1-0 ECAC) hosts Yale (0-2-1, 0-0-1 ECAC) for a 7 p.m. matchup tomorrow night in the Class of 1965 Arena.
