In their final regular season matchup, the Cornell Big Red and St. Lawrence Saints played an entertaining and up-tempo game that was ultimately claimed by St. Lawrence by a score of 2-1 in overtime.<\/p>\n
The first period was a fairly even 20 minutes, with each team firing nine shots on net. Ultimately, only one puck went in off the stick of Cornell’s Jake Weidner on a power play. Weidner was camped in the slot and Matt Buckles found him with a pass from below the goal line. Weidner fired a one-timed snap shot past Hayton at the 11:08 mark of the opening period. Trevor Yates was credited with the other assist on the play.<\/p>\n
The second period saw no scoring, but not for a lack of opportunities. Four power plays, three to the Big Red, yielded only frustration for both teams, as the goaltenders put on a clinic.<\/p>\n
It was in the final 20 minutes and change that the Saints came marching back. They outshot the Big Red by a 17-9 margin in the final period, but it took more than 12 minutes to final solve Mitch Gillam, who finished with 36 saves in the losing effort.<\/p>\n
The tying goal was scored by Gavin Bayreuther, who slid across the blue line and dropped into the slot before firing a shot past Gillam.<\/p>\n
“It was a rebound that came back up, and Pritchard made a nice play, my guy kind of went to him,” said Bayreuther. “I just put it on net and I think there was a guy in front of the net. Once we had one, we had all the momentum.”<\/p>\n
“There’s not many defensemen that can really score goals, and he can score goals,” said Saints coach Greg Carvel. “That’s a heck of a shot; not many defenseman have the skill and poise to hold the puck and put it where he did.”<\/p>\n
The Big Red had chances to open up a lead again, including a late power play with just over five minutes to play, but the Saints penalty kill held fast.<\/p>\n
“We needed the special teams tonight,” said Carvel. “After that first power play, we did a real nice job.”<\/p>\n
The extra period lasted for only 20 seconds before Joe Sullivan netted the game-winner for SLU.<\/p>\n
“It was a great forecheck by Tommy (Thompson); I believe and it came to me, and I just took it to the net, and I was lucky it went in,” said Sullivan.<\/p>\n
“It’s huge,” said Carvel about the win. “It’s absolutely huge. We’ve won three of four games, and it even could have been four if we had a little better start against Yale.”<\/p>\n
“It was nice to get the sweep but it means nothing for next weekend,” said Bayreuther, as the Saints travel to Rensselaer and Union next weekend.<\/p>\n
For Big Red coach Mike Schafer, the tough stretch of games for Cornell isn’t enough to lose confidence.<\/p>\n
“It’s frustrating to lose, we came out in the third and got run around a little bit,” said Schafer. “We had a tough weekend, but there’s things we can take out of it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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