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CLARKSON UNIVERSITY G OLDEN KNIGHTS Hockey Newsletter November 10, 2003 2003-04 CLARKSON HOSTS CORNELL and SCHEDULE COLGATE in TV GAMES BROADCASTED OCTOBER LIVE by TIME WARNER CABLE 11 UNIV. of TORONTO (exh.) H W 4-1 17 Bemidji State ................................. A W 4-2 18 Bemidji State ............................. A T 1-1 ot weekend split by the Clarkson University Hockey team to start the Eastern College 24 COLORADO COLLEGE .............. H L 3-2 AAthletic Conference (ECAC) portion of the schedule has left the Golden Knights a little 25 COLORADO COLLEGE ...... H T 4-4 ot more determined to succeed as they look to return the program to its accustomed position 31 UNIVERSITY of FINDLAY .... H W 4-1 November among the top programs in the conference. Guided by first-year head coach George Roll, 1 SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY H W 4-1 associate coach Greg Drechsel and assistant coach Jean-Francois Houle, Clarkson holds a 7 * RENSSELAER .................... H L 4-3 ot 8 * UNION COLLEGE ................. H W 4-1 4-2-2 overall record and a 1-1 mark in conference play. The Knights will face a challenging 14 * CORNELL UNIVERSITY ............ H 7:00 weekend as they near the end of a lengthy home stand at Cheel Arena with a pair of games 15 * COLGATE UNIVERSITY ............ H 7:00 22 * ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY .. H 7:00 against central New York foes that will be broadcast live by Time Warner Cable. On Friday, 28 * Brown University .................................... A 7:00 the Green and Gold will host perennial ECAC powerhouse and 2003 NCAA Frozen Four 29 * Harvard University ................................. A 7:00 participant Cornell. On Saturday, an improving Colgate squad visits Cheel looking to snap an December 5 UNIV. of NEW HAMPSHIRE .. H 7:00 eight-game winless drought against the Knights. 6 UNIV. of MASS LOWELL ........ H 7:00 A grittier, disciplined effort this past Saturday helped Clarkson salvage a two-point week- Dunkin’ Donuts Coffee Pot at Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, Rhode Island end in its first ECAC games of the season. After allowing an early power-play goal to Union, 27 Harvard vs St. Cloud State ...................... 5:00 the Knights settled down and dominated the remainder of the contest to post a 4-1 victory CLARKSON vs Providence ...................... 8:00 28 Consolation Game ..................................... 5:00 over the Dutchmen. On Friday, the Knights could not recover from a season-high 43 minutes Championship Game .................................. 8:00 in penalties as Rensselaer pulled out a 4-3 win in overtime, netting the deciding marker while January skating on a 5-on-3 power play with just 90 seconds left in the extra session. 2 MERCYHURST COLLEGE ................ H 7:00 3 MERCYHURST COLLEGE ............. H 7:00 Senior co-captains Tristan Lush (North Andover, MA) and Rob McFeeters (Woodville, 9 * Yale University .......................................... A 7:00 ONT) lead a young Clarkson squad, which features nine freshmen and five sophomores on 10 * Princeton University .................................. A 7:00 16 * Dartmouth College ..................................... A 7:00 the roster and includes 15 lettermen. The Knights, who tied for seventh in the ECAC last 17 * University of Vermont ................................ A 7:00 season, are picked to place fifth in the conference this year. Clarkson closes out a nine-game 24 * St. Lawrence University ............................. A 7:00 30 * PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ........... H 7:00 home stand next Saturday, November 22 when it hosts arch-rival St. Lawrence University. 31 * YALE UNIVERSITY...................... H 7:00 February Winners of the past two ECAC regular season titles, Cornell University closes out a four- 6 * Union College ............................................ A 7:00 7 * Rensselaer .................................................. A 7:00 game conference road trip with its journey to the North Country this weekend. After opening 13 * UNIVERSITY of VERMONT ......... H 7:00 the season with an uncharacteristically slow start at Lynah Rink in Ithaca, where they tied (5- 14 * DARTMOUTH COLLEGE .............. H 7:00 20 * HARVARD UNIVERSITY............... H 7:00 5) and lost (3-2) to Western Michigan on October 31 and November 1, the Big Red posted a 21 * BROWN UNIVERSITY.................. H 7:00 pair of overwhelming victories on the road to begin defense of their ECAC title. On Friday, 27 * Colgate University ..................................... A 7:00 28 * Cornell University ...................................... A 7:00 ninth-year head coach Mike Schafer’s team rolled over Yale 6-2 in New Haven, CT and then March followed with a dominating 7-0 victory over Princeton at Hobey Baker Rink in New Jersey on 5-7 ECAC Playoffs First Round - Best of Three Game Series Saturday. Picked to finish behind Harvard in the ECAC standings this year, Cornell, which (Teams 5-12 at campus sites of highest four seeds) 12-14 ECAC Quarterfinals - Best of Three Game Series stands at 2-1-1 overall and 2-0 in the conference, certainly made the league aware by its strong (Winners of First Round at campus sites of top four seed) opening weekend that it will take some doing to knock the Big Red off their lofty perch as the 19-20 43rd ECAC Championship Tournament at Pepsi Center, Albany, New York ECAC’s best team. 26-27 NCAA Northeast Regional at Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, New Hampshire 26-27 NCAA West Regional Massena, NY native, Stan Moore, Jr., returns to the North Country as an ECAC head coach at World Arena, Colorado Springs, Colorado as he guides the Colgate University Raiders into Canton and Potsdam this weekend. For- 27-28 NCAA East Regional merly the head coach at Union College, Moore, who spent the past several years as a Raider at Pepsi Arena, Albany, New York 27-28 NCAA Midwest Regional assistant, takes over the head coaching duties this season while former head coach Don at Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Michigan Vaughan serves in an interim role as Colgate’s athletic director this year. Colgate stands at 3- April 8 &10 57th Annual NCAA Championship Tournament 2-1 overall and 1-1 in the ECAC entering Friday’s game at St. Lawrence. The Raiders, who at FleetCenter, Boston, Massachusetts opened 2003-04 with a 2-1-1 mark in non-conference action, split a pair of overtime games on * Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) the road to start the ECAC campaign. At Princeton on Friday, Colgate pulled out a 3-2 victory, but on Saturday at Ingalls Rink the Raiders were on the opposite end of the same score as Yale netted the game winner with just 20 seconds left in the extra session. www.clarksonathletics.com 2003 CLARKSON HOCKEY 2004 THE SERIES: Cornell has won nine of the last 10 games against Clarkson, After losing four straight to the Raiders to close out the 1990s, including four straight, but the Knights still lead the overall Clarkson has strung together an eight-game unbeaten streak series 44-41-8. The Big Red defeated the Knights 3-2 at Cheel (7-0-1), which includes three shutouts in the last four games, on January 5 and then recorded their fifth shutout all-time in against Colgate to improve its lead in the overall series to 75- the series by blanking the Green and Gold 3-0 in Ithaca on 37-8. Currently the Knights have won four straight, including January 24. Cornell also shutout the Knights 1-0 in Potsdam three games last season. On December 14, the Knights de- on January 5, 2002. In their final meeting of the 2000-01 cam- feated the Raiders in a non-league game at the Corel Centre in paign, Clarkson snapped a five-game losing skid to Cornell Ottawa, ONT as Jeff Genovy scored the winning goal with with a 2-0 victory in Potsdam on February 24, 2001. Mike just 43 seconds left in the extra session. Mike Walsh faced a Walsh made 18 stops and Rob McFeeters tallied one goal season-low 13 shots to record the shutout and Jay Latulippe and an assist in the victory. There have been 16 shutouts scored two goals and one assist in the 6-0 victory at Cheel recorded in the series, 11 by Clarkson. The series began with Arena on January 4. In their last meeting on January 25, the a 0-0 tie in Ithaca during the 1922-23 campaign. McFeeters (2- Knights also shutout the Raiders 3-0 at Starr Rink. Colgate’s 3) has been the top offensive threat for the Green and Gold last victory over the Green and Gold was a 4-2 triumph at against the Big Red with five points (2-3) through five games. Cheel on February 12, 2000. Jay Latulippe (4-2) is the Knights’ leading scorer against Colgate with six points in five games against the Raiders. RENSSELAER/UNION W EEKEND RECAP: Rensselaer knocked in a rebound with 1:30 left in sudden death overtime Game #7 (November 7, 2003) - Att: 2,503 while skating on a 5-on-3 power play to lift the Engineers to a 4-3 victory Cheel Arena, Potsdam, NY over Clarkson University in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Final Score: Rensselaer 4 - CLARKSON 3 ot (ECAC) opener for both teams before 2,503 fans at Cheel Arena Friday Score by Periods night. In a penalty-filled contest, Rensselaer was 1-of-9 on the power play, Rensselaer 1 0 2 1 — 4 while Clarkson was 2-of- 5 with the man-advantage. Trailing 2-1 after two CLARKSON 1 1 1 0 — 3 periods, Rensselaer, which won for the first time in Potsdam in four years, 1st: CU-Desrochers-3 (Latulippe, Kolu), ppg; 2:49 scored twice in a 65-second span midway through the third period to grab a RPI-Barnes-2 (Wojdyla, Croxton); 19:33 3-2 lead.