Clarkson and Rochester Institute of Technology continue to rake up the ties this season.<\/p>\n
After playing to a 3-3 deadlock in a nonconference game Friday night, Clarkson now has five ties and RIT has three.<\/p>\n
Clarkson jumped out to a 2-0 lead on first-period shorthanded goals only to see RIT fight its way back in front with three unanswered goals, which was quickly answered by Clarkson to end the scoring.<\/p>\n
“Both teams played hard,” Clarkson coach Casey Jones said. “We had a short bench. I’m proud of our guys.”<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a pretty good game,” RIT coach Wayne Wilson said. “They generated some good offense and chances. We’ll take the tie right now.”<\/p>\n
The first shorthanded goal came at 6:27. Simon Bessette brought the puck down the left side on a two-on-one. Bessette used his teammate as a decoy, shooting it from the faceoff dot. Josh Watson appeared undecided as the puck easily slipped through his five-hole.<\/p>\n
The Golden Knights got their second shorthanded goal of the first period at 17:16. Pat Megannety went straight down the middle on a breakaway. From the slot, he fired a wrist shot over Watson’s left shoulder for the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
RIT got it right back soon after the power play ended as Ben Lynch stuffed in a rebound at the right post at 19:22.<\/p>\n
The Tigers tied it up on their second power play of the game at 17:54 of the second period. After controlling the puck with lots of movement, Mike Colavecchia fired a slap shot from the right point through a screen beating Greg Lewis cleanly.<\/p>\n
“The power play goal was big,” Wilson said.<\/p>\n
Two successive backhanded shots gave RIT the lead at 4:39 in the third. Lynch’s initial backhander was stopped by Lewis, but he left a huge rebound. Brad McGowan came straight down the middle to backhand it past an out of position Lewis to make it 3-2.<\/p>\n
“It’s part of the ebb and flow of the game,” Jones said. “I hate to give up leads, but we competed hard. We really responded well when they took the lead.”<\/p>\n
Clarkson tied the game a minute later off a rebound. Zarbo whacked in a rebound from in close after Watson left a rebound off a Bessette shot.<\/p>\n
RIT had a golden opportunity to win the game with five seconds left when Adam Hartley had a point-blank shot stopped by Lewis.<\/p>\n
“I thought [Lewis] was good,” Jones said. “He made a really good save there in the third. He’s made key saves at key points of games.”<\/p>\n
“We would have liked to have scored with five seconds there,” Wilson understated.<\/p>\n
Clarkson outshot RIT 44-29. Both teams got three shots in overtime with some good opportunities to score.<\/p>\n
Clarkson has now only lost once in its last eight games, while RIT has only one win in its last 11 games.<\/p>\n
“It’s a long year,” Wilson said. “We’re not discouraged.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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