{"id":8296,"date":"2007-10-20T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-20T18:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2007\/10\/20\/clarkson-tops-st-lawrence-in-overtime-thriller\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:55:26","slug":"clarkson-tops-st-lawrence-in-overtime-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/2007\/10\/20\/clarkson-tops-st-lawrence-in-overtime-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson Tops St. Lawrence in Overtime Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clarkson looked dead in the water after one period of play Saturday night. The Golden Knights fell behind 3-0 to St. Lawrence after just 19:15 of play before 3,695 fans at Cheel Arena. Clarkson turned the momentum in their favor partway through the second period, however, and fueled a comeback that culminated in an overtime victory.<\/p>\n

The Saints struck first with 12:06 remaining in the first period. Junior Kevin DeVergilio got off a shot while falling to the ice and beat senior goalie David Leggio. DeVergilio was able to fire his shot on goal despite being contested by junior defenseman Adam Bellows.<\/p>\n

“I thought we played a great seven, eight opening minutes, had some good chances to get the lead, but they came down and made a nice play on a one-on-one where a guy beat him and kind of changed the momentum of the game,” said Clarkson head coach George Roll.<\/p>\n

St. Lawrence picked up their second goal just over five minutes later when junior Matt Generous poked the puck past Leggio following a scrum in front of the net.<\/p>\n

With forty-five seconds remaining in the opening period, sophomore Alex Curran got the final tally on a breakaway after beating junior defenseman Tyrell Mason. The Saints finished the period with an 11-10 advantage in shots and an even larger margin in momentum.<\/p>\n

Clarkson was able to redeem one goal in the second period on freshman Tom Pizzo’s first collegiate tally. Pizzo collected a loose puck in the left face-off circle and dispensed the puck just inside the right post, beating sophomore netminder Alex Petizian.<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights kept the momentum shift going, opening the third period with a power-play goal to pull themselves to within one. Sophomore Tim Marks, camped out on the right post, collected a pass from classmate Matt Beca to close the margin to 3-2 with 18:14 to play.<\/p>\n

“I think the big thing was we didn’t want to think we had to sit on [the lead]. You have to expect a team that good is going to counter, they got some energy going on a couple power plays and that was the difference. They were oh-for on the [power play], you knew eventually that they were going to come out of it; they’re just too good of a power-play team,” said St. Lawrence head coach Joe Marsh.<\/p>\n

Despite surrendering three first-period goals, Leggio played a large roll in keeping the Saints’ offense in check the rest of the way. Leggio made a sprawling pad save on freshman Aaron Bogosian halfway through the final frame.<\/p>\n

“David made the saves he had to make, especially on the breakaway there when we were on the power play; that was a huge save to give us the momentum to keep it going. He stood tall when we needed him,” said Roll.<\/p>\n

Senior Steve Zalewski knotted the contest at 3-3 with 6:47 to play on a St. Lawrence turnover. Zalewski picked up a loose puck between the circles but had his initial shot blocked by Petizian. The assistant captain quickly collected the rebound with a backhand and flipped the puck past Petizian with a forehand attempt.<\/p>\n

With 5:19 remaining, following a flurry in front of the net, freshman Lauri Tuohimaa collected his first career goal with a poke past Petizian.<\/p>\n

Clarkson looked in control the rest of the way, thwarting any attempt by the Saints to tie the game. With 37.8 seconds on the clock, however, senior Charlie Giffin fired a shot from the point for his third tally of the season to tie the game at four apiece.<\/p>\n

St. Lawrence made the first mistake of the overtime session when junior Shawn Fensel was whistled for holding. The Golden Knights capitalized on the opportunity just fifty-one seconds later when Zalewski sent a puck through the crease and junior Chris D’Alvise put the puck home to push Clarkson past their rivals.<\/p>\n

“These types of losses, as much as they stink, can really bring a team together. I think you get tighter as a club out of necessity in games like this, maybe more than in wins,” reflected Marsh.<\/p>\n

Clarkson, who outshot the Saints 16-6 over the course of the third and overtime period, moved to 3-1-0 on the season overall and 1-0-0 in ECAC play. St. Lawrence, meanwhile, dropped to 2-2-0 on the season and 0-1-0 in c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarkson looked dead in the water after one period of play Saturday night. The Golden Knights fell behind 3-0 to St. Lawrence after just 19:15 of play before 3,695 fans at Cheel Arena. Clarkson turned the momentum in their favor partway through the second period, however, and fueled a comeback that culminated in an overtime […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8296"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/recaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}