{"id":97615,"date":"2013-12-09T07:23:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/ecac-blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2013-12-09T07:23:27","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T13:23:27","slug":"a-north-country-sweep-and-a-tie-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2013\/12\/09\/a-north-country-sweep-and-a-tie-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"A North Country sweep and a tie at the top"},"content":{"rendered":"
Clarkson has piled up the wins over the first half thanks to a stingy defense. But this weekend, the Golden Knights showed they could win shootouts too, sweeping rival St. Lawrence by scores of 5-4 and 4-3.<\/p>\n
The Saints led in both games, but Clarkson scored three unanswered goals over a six-minute span Friday, while the Golden Knights erased a 3-2 first-period deficit Saturday at a sold-out Appleton Arena. Friday’s game at Cheel Arena featured the third-largest crowd ever in Clarkson history.<\/p>\n
With the two wins, Clarkson is now on a 7-0-1 run against St. Lawrence. The Golden Knights are also third in the ECAC with a 6-2 record, although they have two games in hand over first-place Quinnipiac. Clarkson is off for the holidays, resuming the second half against Vermont in the Catamount Cup on Dec. 28.<\/p>\n
A winless weekend for the Bobcats; Dutchmen on fire: <\/b>It’s been a while since Quinnipiac has a weekend with a zero in the win column. That’s what happens when you rattle off unbeaten streaks of 21-and-13 games over the last calendar year.<\/p>\n
But the Bobcats came home from the Capital Region with only one point, thanks to a 3-3 tie at Rensselaer Friday, and a 6-4 loss at Union Saturday. The last time Quinnipiac didn’t get at least one win in a two-game weekend was Nov. 18-19, 2011, when the Bobcats lost at Colgate and Cornell.<\/p>\n
The six goals allowed Saturday at Union were the most Quinnipiac has given up since a 6-3 loss against Harvard on Feb. 3, 2012.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Dutchmen extended their winning streak to seven games. Union is 9-1 over its last ten games, and is tied for first place with the Bobcats, with two games in hand.<\/p>\n
The Dutchmen face Dartmouth Wednesday night before heading to St. Cloud State for two games this weekend. The Huskies are on a seven-game unbeaten streak of their own, and were ranked No. 2 in the USCHO.com Division I Men’s Poll entering the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n Individual highlights abound: <\/b> Teammate Ryan Haggerty may lead the nation in goals, but RPI forward Brock Higgs is having quite a season of his own so far. The senior has a career-best 11 goals in 16 games this season, including this highlight-reel score<\/a> against Princeton Saturday.<\/p>\n Quinnipiac goalie Michael Garteig became the second league goalie is under two weeks to score a goal. While not as noteworthy as Cornell goalie Mitch Gilliam’s empty-netter Nov. 26, it’s still an unusual feat. Garteig was given the goal after review of the game film from Saturday’s matchup with Union.<\/a> Dutchmen defender Shayne Gostisbehere tipped the puck into his own net, and it was determined that Garteig was the last Bobcat player to touch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Clarkson has piled up the wins over the first half thanks to a stingy defense. But this weekend, the Golden Knights showed they could win shootouts too, sweeping rival St. Lawrence by scores of 5-4 and 4-3. The Saints led in both games, but Clarkson scored three unanswered goals over a six-minute span Friday, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1221,1486],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n