Official press release from RPI's SID

MEN'S HOCKEY WINS IN OVERTIME, 3-2
Croxton scores with 15.1 seconds remaining in regular season finale

Junior Kevin Croxton scored on a wrist shot with 15.1 seconds remaining in
overtime to give Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) a 3-2 victory over
Yale University in an ECAC Hockey League Division I men's hockey game at
the Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. in the regular season finale for both
teams.

With the win, the Engineers improve to 14-20-2 overall and 6-15-1 in the
ECACHL while the Bulldogs fall to 4-23-2 and 3-18-3.  Rensselaer, which
finishes in eleventh place in the final standings, will face sixth-place
Brown in the best-of-three first round of the playoffs next weekend.  Yale,
the twelfth-place team, plays at fifth-place Dartmouth in next weekend's
opening round.

RPI earned the win when Croxton converted a Kirk MacDonald pass on a
two-on-one down low with the Engineers on a power play.  Yale had been
penalized for too many men on the ice penalty.  The goal was Croxton's
eighth of the season and the 100th point of his career (41 goals, 59 assists).

The Engineers got on the board first when freshman Jonathan Ornelas scored
on a wrist shot from the bottom of the left face-off circle at 11:13 of the
first period.  For Ornelas, who was assisted by Blake Pickett and
MacDonald, the goal was his fifth of the season.  The Bulldogs knotted the
score when junior Jeff Hristovski tallied from just outside the crease for
a power play goal at the 18:20 mark.  The goal was Hristovski's seventh of
the season and third against Rensselaer this season.  Joe Zappala and
Jean-Francois Boucher were credited with the assists.

Yale took the lead at 3:27 of the second period when junior Nate Jackson
scored on a shot from close range that snuck just inside the
crossbar.  Bill LeClerc earned the only assist on the goal, which was the
eighth of the season for Jackson.

Rensselaer tied the game with a power play goal midway through the third
period.  Sophomore Oren Eizenman carried the puck from the along the goal
line, drawing the Yale goaltender.  Eizenman then slid a pass to classmate
Kevin Broad, who scored his sixth goal of the season.  Ornelas also picked
up an assist on the play.

Senior Andrew Martin earned the win in goal, making 28 saves, including 12
in the second period and four in the overtime.  Sophomore Matt Modelski,
who had 24 saves, suffered the loss.