Playing in front of a raucous crowd of 962 in their first-ever home game, Robert Morris fell one goal short in their comeback effort as they lost to Canisius College, 5-4, at the RMU Island Sports Center on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Freshman Brett Hopfe recorded the first hat-trick in Colonial history as he scored twice in the first period and again in the third.<\/p>\n
Freshmen Jace Buzek and David Boguslawski each had two assists in the game. The Colonials fall to 1-1-0 on the season after upsetting the Golden Griffs, 3-1, in their first-ever game on Friday.<\/p>\n
In a first period marred by 15 penalties for 41 total minutes, the teams managed five goals, three of which came with the man advantage. Canisius struck first on a Michael Cohen power-play score with assists from Matt Ruberto and Tim Songin just 2:10 into the game.<\/p>\n
The Colonials answered with the next three goals. Hopfe netted a five-on-three power-play goal at 3:41 followed by a Joey Olson goal at 6:26 and another Hopfe score at 10:13.<\/p>\n
Canisius scored the next four goals, first cutting the lead to 3-2 with a power-play goal by Songin at 11:20 of the first period. Billy Irish-Baker scored at 5:38 of the second on assist from David Ovcjak and Andrew Dawe. Joel Kitchen gave the Griffs the lead, 4-3 at 15:17 with a power-play score on assists from Songin and Andrew Dawe.<\/p>\n
Dawe then scored his own 12:58 into the third period with help from Michael Cohen and Matt Ruberto.<\/p>\n
Hopfe finished his hat trick with his second power-play goal of the game at 17:14 to make it 5-4. The Colonials pulled freshman goalie Christian Boucher for the extra-skater with 43 seconds left to play but couldn’t find the equalizer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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