Rookie Goalie Makes 38 Stops to Lead Colgate
HAMILTON – Rookie Charlie Finn had 38 saves between the pipes as the Colgate men’s hockey team earned a 3-1 win on Saturday night in ECAC Hockey action.
Colgate (7-7-1, 5-3-0 ECAC) saw Kyle Baun tally three points with a goal and two assists, while Mike Borkowski added a goal and an assist for two points. Darcy Murphy scored the final goal of the night for his seventh of the year.
Brown (3-5-1, 1-4-1 ECAC) got its single goal from Joe Prescott with assists to Matt Harlow and Garnet Hathaway. Marco De Filippo got the start in net and made 26 saves.
It took around seven minutes left in the first period for the teams to get going and the Raiders took the 1-0 lead with a shorthanded goal from Baun. The sophomore netted his seventh of the season after a nice pass from Borkowski. Baun broke in along on De Filippo and went forehand to backhand for the score.
Brown evened it up at 1-1 with 3:45 left in the first period with Prescott scoring a power play goal. The Bears had a 3-on-1 on the power play and Hathaway found Prescott trailing on the play and slipped the puck back to him. Hathaway beat Finn to the glove side to get Brown on the board.
The Raiders regained the lead exactly a minute later with Borkowski’s sniper shot from the right circle. Tyson Spink found Borkowski on the wing and he ripped a snap shot that beat De Filippo to the glove side and under the bar to give Colgate a 2-1 lead into the first intermission.
In the second period, Colgate had a golden opportunity to increase its lead with a full two minutes of 5-on-3 power play time. The Raiders fired a few shots on De Filippo, but the netminder kept the Bears within one as the teams went scoreless in the middle frame.
The score stayed the same until Murphy scored on the empty net with 1:03 left in the game. Baun got the puck behind the net and fed it out to Murphy and he beat a diving Brown defender to give the Raiders the 3-1 win.
Finn was a major reason Colgate hung on against the Bears as he made 18 stops in the final period. Brown finished with a 39-29 shot advantage. The Bears also scored the lone power play goal of the night on four chances. Colgate went 0-for-5 with the man advantage.
Colgate has next weekend off and is back on the ice at Lynah Rink on Dec. 7 against rival Cornell.
