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Rensselaer Downs Colgate 3-1 in ECAC Semifinals
Engineers Advance to Championship Game

Lake Placid, N.Y. -- An unassisted goal by Chad MacDonald at the 17:15 mark of thefirst period gave Colgate a 1-0 lead after twenty minutes of play in the first ECAC Semifinal.

In the second period, a Keith Dupee power-play goal at 6:47 followed by a Nolan Graham tally at 8:37 gave Rensselaer a 2-1 lead at the second intermission.
A late goal by Keith Dupee at 18:53 of the third made it a 3-1 final in favor of Rensselaer.

Colgate's Shep Harder has 38 saves in the contest while Joel Laing stopped 19 shots in the Rensselaer net.

Top-seeded St. Lawrence plays Cornell in the second Semifinal. Colgate will play in the ECAC Consolation Game at 4:00 on Saturday while the Rensselaer will battle for the Championship at 7:00.