Junior center Rich Peverley scored two goals and had three assists and freshman linemate John Zeiler had a goal and four assists as St. Lawrence rolled to a 9-4 victory over Princeton Friday night. <\/p>\n
The Saints, now 9-18-4 overall and 6-11-2 in the ECAC, kept hopes for home ice in the first round of the playoffs alive while Princeton, mired in last, saw a winless streak stretch to six games as the Tigers are now 3-22-1 overall and 2-16-1 in the ECAC. <\/p>\n
St. Lawrence put the pressure on Princeton early in the game and finally broke through for the first goal when senior captain Blair Clarance tipped a shot from the point by freshman defenseman Mike Madill past Princeton goalie Trevor Clay at 11:09. <\/p>\n
It went to 2-0 at 13:47 when defenseman Matt Macdonald put home his own rebound for his second of the year, but the Tigers got that one right back when sophomore Mike Patton took advantage of a Saint giveaway in the SLU end and walked in on goalie Kevin Ackley, scoring his ninth of the year at 14:04. <\/p>\n
Sophomore Stace Page re-established the two-goal Saint lead with his fourth of the season from right in front at 15:34. The Saints made it a 4-1 game early in the second period when senior Jim Lorentz scored his team-leading 12th of the year from the short slot at 3:49, but Princeton refused to go away. Junior Dan Hursh scored his fourth of the year on a shot to the upper corner at 6:11, and while the Saints regained their three goal lead on freshman T.J. Trevelyan’s power play goal at 9:39, Patton scored his second of the night at 11:05 to make it a 5-3 game. <\/p>\n
Rich Peverley gave the Saints a 6-3 lead after two when he scored his 11th of the season on a power play with 1:15 to go in the period. <\/p>\n
“It was like we couldn’t stand prosperity for a while,” said Saint coach Joe Marsh. “Every time it looked like we were going to put it away, Princeton got one back to stay in it.<\/p>\n
“We got things rolling toward the end, but we’ve got a big task ahead of us with Yale coming in Saturday. We need to just keep building momentum and minimize our mistakes to keep our home ice hopes alive.” <\/p>\n
St. Lawrence added to the lead 7:48 into the third period when defenseman Simon Watson scored his third of the year against Tiger backup goalie Eric Leroux, and while Sebastian Borza got one back for Princeton at 8:36, Peverley scored his second of the night on a wraparound just 18 seconds later. Zeiler completed the scoring with his ninth of the season at 11:25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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