Box Score
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Four different players scored a goal as the Cornell men's hockey team closed out the home portion of the fall semester with a 4-2 victory over Colgate on Tuesday night in Ithaca. The win lifts Cornell to 6-2 on the year and 5-2 in ECAC Hockey play, while Colgate falls to 6-4-4 and 4-2-1 in league play.
Jordan Kary, Riley Nash, Blake Gallagher and Colin Greening scored for the Big Red, which also got three assists from Justin Krueger and two from Brendon Nash. Francois Brisebois and Nick Prokow scored goals for the Raiders, with Thomas Larkin chipping in two assists.
Cornell finished the night 2-for-5 on the power play, while both of Colgate's goals came with the man advantage. Cornell goaltender Ben Scrivens stopped 28 shots for the victory, while Colgate netminder Alex Evin stopped 16 shots on the night for the Raiders.
Following a scoreless first period, Colgate got on the board first when Brisebois tipped home a shot from the point by the Raiders' Kevin McNamara midway through the second period. Cornell responded at the end of the period with a pair of goals coming 1:13 apart to lead, 2-1, after two periods. Jordan Kary scored the tying goal, first ringing a shot off the post to Evin's right. The puck came back into the crease, where it was shoveled back to Kary on the right side of the Colgate goal. Kary wheeled around and fired another shot, this time slipping through the legs of Evin.
Nash put the Big Red ahead just before the end of the second, ripping a shot from the faceoff circle to Evin's right after getting a pass from his brother, Brendon.
Cornell went to the locker room up one after two periods, but Colgate needed just 1:40 of the third to tie the score at two. With the Raiders on a power play, Robbie Bourdon sent a puck to the front of the goal, where Prockow chopped at the waist-high puck, bouncing it off the ice underneath Scrivens and into the goal. A lengthy review of the play ensued, lasting more than five minutes, but the ruling on the ice was upheld.
Cornell took the lead with 5:11 to play in the third period on Blake Gallagher's power-play tally, getting a pass from Krueger and ripping a shot from the slot past Evin. Colgate coach Don Vaughan would pull Evin with 1:00 to play for the extra skater, with Colin Greening scoring into the empty net with 4.2 seconds to play for the final margin.
Cornell returns to action on Saturday when it travels to New York City to face Boston University at Madison Square Garden in a rematch of the last meeting between the two teams, two years ago at Madison Square Garden. Puck drop at the Garden is scheduled for 8 p.m.