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Josh Coyle
3
Union College UNION 2-1-2
3
Rensselaer RPI 1-1-2
Union College UNION
2-1-2
3
Final
3
Rensselaer RPI
1-1-2
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 OT 1 F
Union College UNION 1 2 0 0 3
Rensselaer RPI 1 1 1 0 3

Game Recap: Men's Ice Hockey |

Dutchmen skate to 3-3 tie with RPI; Engineers advance on penalty shots

ALBANY, NY – The Union College men's hockey team played to a 3-3 overtime draw with Rensselaer In the first round of the Governor's Cup Presented by Citizens Bank Saturday evening at the Pepsi Arena. As the game is recorded as a tie, Union remains unbeaten against Rensselaer in five games.
Rensselaer forward Seth Klerer (Thornhill, Ont.) gave the Engineers a 1-0 lead in the first round of the shootout, sending a low shot past the glove side of Union goaltender Justin Mrazek (Regina, Sask). Neither team could find the net through the next four rounds, advancing Rensselaer to the Championship game.
Sophomore Matt Cook (Belle Mead, NJ) tallied his first goal of the season to put Union (2-1-2) on the board at 6:54 in the first period. Cook was waiting on the doorstep to one-time a pass from junior Josh Coyle (Brooklyn, OH) who was perched behind the net.
The Engineers (1-1-2) answered right back less than three minutes later when Andrei Uryadov (St. Petersburg, Russia) sent a cross-ice pass from deep in the Union zone up to Paul Kerins (Weston, Ont.) who maneuvered around a Union defenseman in the slot and shoved the puck behind the stick side of Mrazek.
Rensselaer took the lead midway through the second period when Kurt Colling (Ripley, Ont.) found his rebound at the right post and jammed the puck in.
Union's Olivier Bouchard (Quebec City, QUE) tied the game on a one-timer off a cross-ice pass from Jason Walters (Renfrew, ONT) at 15:41 of the second period.  The Dutchmen took the lead with just seven seconds left in the middle stanza when Coyle scored a power-play tally off the pad of netminder Jordan Alford (Red Deer, ALB). T.J. Fox (Oswego, NY) passed the puck up to Augie DiMarzo (West Haven, CT) who tumbled into a Rensselaer defender, snapping the puck to Coyle.
Klerer knotted the game for the Engineers with his second goal of the season, a rebound of a Peter Merth (New Westminster, BC) shot. Colling also had a hand in the goal, which came at 5:39.
Mrazek finished with 30 saves, including 11 in the third period, while Alford stopped 22 shots.
The Dutchmen are back in action tomorrow afternoon when they face Quinnipiac in the consolation game at 2 p.m.
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