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COLGATE CLOSES OUT REGULAR SEASON
WITH 7-1 ROUT AGAINST YALE

Red Raiders finish second in the ECAC and host same Yale squad (No. 9 seed) in Quarterfinals of ECAC Championships Mar. 10-12

HAMILTON, N.Y. – Hobey Baker Memorial Award candidate Andy McDonald and junior defenseman Bryan Long each scored two goals and added assists to lead the Colgate University men's ice hockey team to a 7-1 rout against Yale.

The victory avenged a 2-0 shutout loss at Yale in the first meeting of the year on Dec. 3 and marked the final regular-season home games for the six Colgate seniors including forwards McDonald and Darryl Campbell, defensemen Jeff Potter, Byron Pool and Mike Marostega, and goaltender Shep Harder.

Harder stopped 17 shots to pick up the win and closed out the regular-season with an 18-5-2 overall record and 12-4-2 in ECAC play.

Colgate (21-7-2, 14-4-2 ECAC) took the early lead on the first of two Long goals 9:41 into the first period from McDonald. McDonald blocked a Yale shot and skated down ice and found Long on the left post and he hammered it home.

Cory Murphy scored his ninth goal of the year on a power-play to make it 2-0 after the first period on an assist from Nolan at 15:54. Nolan was down inside the left face-off circle and saw Murphy in the middle of the ice just inside the blueline and he wripped a shot past Yale goaltender Trevor Hanger. Hanger played 48 minutes and finished with 22 saves taking the loss and dropping to 6-6-2.

Yale's Paul Lawson cut the lead to 2-1 at 3:45 of the second period, but that was as close as the Bulldogs (9-14-5, 6-11-4 ECAC) would get as Colgate responded with two more goals in the second and three in the third.

Long started Colgate's scoring in the second with his second goal of the game and fourth marker of the year as he took the puck on his own into the zone and wristed a shot to the top right corner of the net at 8:08.

McDonald scored the next two markers with his 19th and 20th of the season with a power-play goal at 16:10 of the second and an even-strength score 56 seconds into the third period. Marostega and Campbell assisted on McDonald's first goal, while Nolan had the lone helper on his second marker. Nolan finished the game with three helpers raising his season total to 16.

Mike O'Malley scored his second goal of the season, while Kevin Johns added his 10th of the year to close out the Colgate scoring at 6:06 and 8:06 of the third period, respectively.

Colgate finished the evening 3-for-6 on the power-play while Yale was 0-for-5. Colgate's penalty-kill is 20 for its last 20 over the last four games.

Both teams will face off once again this week in the best-of-three series in the quarterfinal round of the ECAC Championships beginning with the first game on Friday, Mar. 10 and continuing through Sunday, Mar. 12 (if necessary).

Goals by Period 1 2 3 Tot

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Yale Univ........... 0 1 0 - 1
Colgate Univ........ 2 2 3 - 7

1st period - 1, COLGATE, Bryan Long 3 (Andy McDonald) 09:41. 2, COLGATE, Cory Murphy 9 (Sean Nolan) 15:52 (pp). Penalties - John Chyz, YALE (ROUGHING) 03:09; Bryan Long, COLGATE (INTERFERENCE) 07:34; Bryan Long, COLGATE (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 10:36; Bryan Long, COLGATE (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 10:36; John Chyz, YALE (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 10:36; John Chyz, YALE (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 10:36; Paul Lawson, YALE (ELBOWING) 11:00; Bryan Freeman, YALE (CONTACT WITH GOALIE) 15:30; Dan Stay, COLGATE (HIGH STICKING) 17:38.

2nd period - 3, YALE, Paul Lawson 4 (Joe Dart) 03:45. 4, COLGATE, Bryan Long 4 08:08. 5, COLGATE, Andy McDonald 19 (Mike Marostega, Darryl Campbell) 16:10 (pp). Penalties - Chad MacDonald, COLGATE (HIT AFTER WHISTLE) 11:28; Bryan Freeman, YALE (TRIPPING) 15:28.

3rd period - 6, COLGATE, Andy McDonald 20 (Sean Nolan) 00:56. 7, COLGATE, Mike O'Malley 2 (Etienne Morin, Sean Nolan) 06:06. 8, COLGATE, Kevin Johns 10 (Etienne Morin, Bryan Long) 08:06 (pp). Penalties - Sean Nolan, COLGATE (HOLDING) 01:22; Jeff Brow, YALE (SLASHING) 02:41; John Gauger, YALE (SLASHING) 07:23; Darryl Campbell, COLGATE (SLASHING) 15:47.

Shots on goal - YALE 8-7-8-23; COLGATE 11-13-10-34.

Power plays - YALE 0 of 5; COLGATE 3 of 6.

Goalies - YALE, Trevor Hanger 6-6-2 (29 shots-22 saves) , Dan Lombard (08:06 3rd, 5-5); COLGATE, Shep Harder 18-5-2 (18-17) , Jason Lefevre (06:03 3rd, 5-5).

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Three stars: 1. Andy McDonald 2. Bryan Long 3. Sean Nolan

Referee:John Murphy Asst Ref:Jeff Fulton; Tom Lynch

Win-Shep Harder (18-5-2). Loss-Trevor Hanger (6-6-2).