Colgate Edges Princeton in OT

Liam and Brendan Gorman almost made it Princeton's night. Almost.

The two brothers from Arlington, Mass. staked the Tigers to a 3-2 lead with their individual goals at Hobey Baker Rink on Saturday night, but in the end it was the visiting Colgate Raiders escaping with a 4-3 NCAA victory in overtime. 

Ross Mitton took a drop pass just inside the Princeton blueline, skated between the faceoff circles, and wristed a shot through Tigers netminder Aidan Porter just 57 seconds into the 3-on-3 extra session to give Colgate its first and only lead of the evening. Porter finished the game with 22 stops.

Liam Gorman opened the scoring when he stole the puck along the right wing boards just over five-and-a-half minutes into the contest, and skated in alone to beat Colgate netminder Carter Gylander (33 saves). Colgate's Nic Belpedio responded nine minutes later with a power-play tally to close out the opening stanza.

Jack Cronin connected on the power play for Princeton for the only goal of the middle session, before Colgate knotted matters once again on Colton Young's power-play goal two-and-a-half minutes into the third period. It was a five-minute man advantage for the Raiders, after the Tigers' Nick Seitz received a major penalty and a game misconduct for hitting from behind only 20 seconds into the final frame.

Brendan Gorman whipped home a shot from the right circle just under six minutes into the third period to again put Princeton (0-3-0 overall, 0-3-0 ECAC Hockey) up by a goal. Simon Labelle replied just under seven minutes later for Colgate (3-6-1, 1-1-0) off a goalmouth scramble to make it 3-3 and ultimately push the contest into sudden death.

Princeton outshot Colgate, 36-26, on the night and finished 1-for-2 on the power play, while the Raiders went 2-for-7 while a man up. The two schools will meet again in January at Colgate to close out their season series.