Official Press release from RPI's SID

MEN'S HOCKEY BEATS HARVARD, 4-1
Engineers snap three-game losing streak with ECAC victory

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) got a goal and an assist from
both
Conrad Barnes and Kirk MacDonald and the Engineers defeated Harvard
University, xx-xx, in an Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC)
contest
at the Houston Field House in Troy, N.Y. With the win, the Engineers
snap
a three-game losing streak and are now 8-8-2 overall and 4-3-1 in the
ECAC. The Crimson fall to 7-8-2 overall and 5-6-1 in the league.

Barnes, a senior forward, gave the homestanding Engineers an early lead
when he scored on a wrist shot from the slot, high to the glove side at
6:16 of the first period. MacDonald and Cody Wojdyla were credited with
the assists on the goal, Barnes's fifth of the season.

The Engineers moved ahead, 2-0, at 2:29 of the second period when
sophomore
Kevin Croxton scored on a rebound of a Scott Basiuk slap shot with
Rensselaer on a power play. For Croxton, who scored from the left side
of
the crease, the goal was his seventh of the season. The Crimson pulled
to
within one goal with a power play goal by sophomore Dan Murphy at 12:49
of
the second period. Murphy scored his second of the season on a rebound
of
a Dennis Packard shot from just outside the crease. Kevin Du also earned
an assist on the goal. MacDonald gave RPI another two-goal lead when he
broke in on a two-on-one with Barnes and scored on a wrist shot high to
the
glove side at the 15:27 mark. MacDonald's marker was his team-leading
eighth of the season.

Freshman Tommy Green scored an unassisted goal from the slot at 17:05 of
the third period to give the Engineers a 4-1 lead.

Rensselaer got 21 saves from senior Nathan Marsters, including ten in
the
second period, while Dov Grumet-Morris stopped 22
shots in the loss for the Crimson.

The Engineers will host ECAC and Capital District foe Union College on
Friday night at 7pm. Harvard will host Cornell in a league game at 8pm
next Friday night. That game will be televised live on the College
Sports
Television Network (CSTV).