Clarkson stopped Cornell, 6-3 in Potsdam tonight. Clarkson flew out to a 4-0 lead but they sat back and let Cornell score 3 straight goals before putting the Big Red away. The first period was scoreless. Clarkson had numerous chances, outshootin the Big Red, 13-4. But national save % leader Andy Bandurski stymied the Golden Knights. Early in the second period, Clarkson took a 1-0 lead when Dave Seitz poked the rebound of a Kevin Murphy shot past Bandurski. With about 8 1/2 minutes left in the second, Steve Palmer broke down one on one. When he tried to split the defense, the Cornell blueliner poked the puck away but Craig Conroy picked up the pick and wristed it past Bandurski on the stick side. About a minute and a half later, Todd White tipped home a centering pass from Murphy for a 3-0 lead. Some 30 seconds later, Patrice Robitaille made it 4-0 forcing Bandurski from the game. With the 3 goals in less than 2 minutes, Clarkson seemed to have control of the game. Instead of playing with the lead like they did against Vermont and Colgate, they nearly reverted to their old selves and sat on the lead. Shaun Hannah scored a power play goal for the Big Red late in the second. Clarkson goalie Jason Currie had made 3 straight saves in close but the puck squrited to Hannah on the other side and he poked it home. Seconds into the final period, Geoff Bumstead picked up a puck behind the net and the Clarkson defense let him walk in front and put one past Currie. A few minutes later, Bumstead made it 4-3 on an almost identical play. Both teams had several good chances but Currie and Cornell goalie Eddy Skazyk played well. Finally, Clarkson put it away when Robitaille took a pass on a 2-on-1 and snapped it past Skazyk. Jean Francois Houle added an empty netter for the final margin of victory. Clarkson's line of Murphy-Seitz-White had a stellar performance, putting up two goals and some excellent forechecking. So did Patrice Robitaille who also forechecked well in addition to his pair of goals. Geoff Bumstead was quite the pest for Cornell. Clarkson takes its five game unbeaten streak to RPI and Union next weekend. THREE STARS 1) Kevin Murphy, Clarkson 2) Patrice Robitaille, Clarkson 3) Geoff Bumstead, Cornell Colgate was leading St Lawrence, 6-2, in the third period. _______Bri [log in to unmask] | Clarkson University '95 Glens Falls High '91 | | NCAA, AHL, ECAC and Boston Bruins contact for rec.sport.hockey | | Join the AHL mailing list: [log in to unmask] | | GO ERIN WHITTEN! USA HOCKEY IN '94 | | ARIZONA HOOPS, PAC 10 CHAMPS: '86 '87 '88 '89 '90 '91 '93 | | PREDICTION: Cowboys 38 Bills 27 | -------------------------------------------------------------------