Senior forward
Kyle Bodie scored early in the second period, and junior defenseman
Mat Bodie and senior forward
Wayne Simpson added late third period goals for the Dutchmen, who clinched home ice in their opening series in the ECAC Hockey playoffs.
St. Lawrence's Chris Martin scored at 9:10 of the third period to cut Union's lead to 3-1, taking a high flip pass from Justin Baker and beating junior goaltender
Troy Grosenick (17 saves) low on a breakaway at 9:10. Grosenick left the game with a lower body injury after the play and was replaced by sophomore goaltender
Colin Stevens (two saves).
Union regained a three goal lead a short time later, as Gostisbehere fed
Mat Bodie coming across the blue line, and the junior defenseman ripped a slapshot over the shoulder of St. Lawrence goaltender Matt Weninger at 13:01 of the third period.
Simpson added his team leading 14th goal of the season at 18:13, putting in his own rebound to put the Dutchmen up 5-1.
Union outshot St. Lawrence 46-20 for the night.
The Dutchmen got off to a quick start, scoring in the opening minute on their second shot of the game. Junior forward
Josh Jooris won a faceoff back to sophomore defenseman
Charlie Vasaturo, who fired a long shot past Weninger at :45 to put Union up 1-0
Union would make it 2-0 just over 3:00 later, as freshman forward
Matt Wilkins fed cross-ice to junior forward
Matt Hatch. Hatch fired a wrist shot over the shoulder of Weninger at 4:05 to put the Dutchmen up 2-0.
Grosenick made his best stop of the frame at 17:30, kicking out a Jeremy Wick chance after a Union defensive zone turnover.
Union outshot St. Lawrence 17-4 in the frame.
Kyle Bodie put Union up by three goals early in the second period after Union continued to dominate puck possession in the St. Lawrence zone. Gostisbehere fired a slap shot on net that Weninger kicked right to Bodie, who finished into an open net at 3:28.
Grosenick continued his solid play through the second period, stopping the nation's leading goal-scorer, Greg Carey on a wide open wrist shot at the circle on a St. Lawrence power play at 10:34, with sophomore forward
Daniel Ciampini in the penalty box for high sticking. St. Lawrence finished the night 0-for-3 on the man advantage, while Union went 0-for-6 on its power play chances.
The Dutchmen, who sit in a three-way tie for fourth place with 22 points in ECAC Hockey, will await the results of Saturday night in league play to determine if they have a first round bye in the league playoffs.
Union takes on Clarkson tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. on Senior Night at Messa Rink.
