HAMILTON – Jacob Panetta (Belleville, Ontario) scored his first career goal for the Colgate men’s ice hockey team Saturday afternoon in the Raiders’ 6-3 loss to the nationally ranked No. 4/6 Quinnipiac Bobcats at Class of 1965 Arena.
Panetta, Tim Harrison (Duxbury, Massachusetts) and Brett Corkey (Calgary, Alberta) all scored for the Raiders with Panetta chipping in the Raiders’ 14th power-play goal of the season.
Late in the second period, Panetta cut the Raider’s deficit to two goals with his power-play goal. Quinnipiac’s Kevin McKernan went off with a penalty with 5:41 left. The Raiders worked the puck around the offensive zone where the puck came to Panetta who shifted it to Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) on his right. Kulevich settled the puck and played it back to Panetta who blasted home the shot.
Harrison cut the Bobcats’ lead to one with his third goal of the season just 2:39 into the third period. Emilio Audi (Montreal, Quebec) worked the puck from the defensive zone to Derek Freeman (Newburyport, Massachusetts) in the neutral zone. Freeman shifted the puck to Harrison, who streak up the left boards into the offensive zone before shuffling a backhanded shot past Quinnipiac goaltender Chris Truehl.
Including Harrison’s goal, Colgate managed to pull within one goal of Quinnipiac twice in the game but could not overcome the deficit.
The Bobcats jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first six minutes on the game on Tim Clifton’s eighth and ninth goals of the season before the Raiders got on the board. With about 35 seconds left in the first period, Adam Dauda (Kitchener, Ontario) won a faceoff back to Corkey at the left point. Corkey blasted a one-timer through traffic and into the back of the net to make it 2-1.
Quinnipiac tallied two more goals to open up the second period with KJ Tiefenwerth netting one on the power play and Tommy Schutt extended the Bobcats lead to 4-1.
Following Panetta and Harrison’s goals, Quinnipiac scored three unanswered goals to close out the game, coming from Schutt, Connor Clifton and Bo Pieper. Brogan Rafferty and Scott Davidson each had three assists for Quinnipiac.
BOTTOM LINE
Quinnipiac 7, Colgate 3
WON-LOST RECORDS
The Bobcats won their fourth consecutive game to improve to 9-3-1 (5-1-0 ECAC Hockey) while the Raiders split the weekend and fall to 3-6-4 (2-3-1 ECAC Hockey).
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Panetta picked up his first career goal for the Raiders and third point of the season
-Harrison and Corkey each added their third goals of the season with Corkey picking up a point for the third time in four games
-Corkey also led all skaters with five blocked shots and took over the league lead with 30 blocked shots this season
-Kulevich extended his point streak to three games with four points in that span, his longest point streak since Feb. 28-March 14, 2015, when he had a three-game point streak, also with four points
-Dauda picked up his sixth assist of the year for his team-leading ninth point
-Audi tallied his fourth assist of the season in his sixth game
-Freeman’s assist was his first of the season, giving him four points
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Quinnipiac outshot Colgate, 51-24, including 37-18 over the final two periods
-Both teams registered a power play goal, with Quinnipiac going 2 for 8 and Colgate going 1 for 2
-The Bobcats also held the edge in faceoffs, 41-32, led by Tim Clifton’s 14 wins. Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) led Colgate with 12 wins.
UP NEXT
Colgate returns to action on Saturday, Nov. 26 at 7 p.m. when they travel to Providence, R.I. to face the nationally ranked No. 19 Providence Friars at Schneider Arena.
