College roundup: Clarkson, St. Lawrence gain men's OT victories; Clarkson, SLU women win playoff openers

Mar. 2—HAMDEN, Conn. — Mathieu Gosselin scored 1 minute and 33 seconds into overtime to lift the Clarkson University men's hockey team to a 3-2 victory over No. 7-ranked Quinnipiac on Friday night in an ECAC Hockey game at M&T Bank Arena.

Tristan Sarsland and Erik Bargholtz each contributed a goal for the Golden Knights, who improve to 17-15-1, including 11-9-1 in league play.

Goaltender Austin Roden made 23 saves to record the win for Clarkson.

After Sarsland scored with 8:31 remaining in the second period to provide the Golden Knights with a 1-0 lead, Zach Tupker scored with 4:49 left in the period to tie the game for the Bobcats.

Bargholtz provided Clarkson with a 2-1 advantage with 1:34 remaining in the period, with Gosselin assisting, Cooper Moore tied the game for Quinnipiac 7:38 into the third period.

Goalie Vinny Duplessis finished with 26 stops for Quinnipiac (23-8-2, 16-4-1).

ST. LAWRENCE 4, PRINCETON 4 (OT)

Felikss Gavars scored twice in regulation for the Saints, but the game went to a shootout where Jan Lasak scored the game winner, and goalie Ben Kraws made five saves as St. Lawrence clinched a top-eight league finish and a home playoff game by recording a tie against the Tigers at Hobey Baker Rink Princeton, N.J.

St. Lawrence (10-17-6, 8-9-4) gained an extra point in the standings by prevailing in the shootout.

With 29 league points, the Saints are firmly in the top-eight granting them home ice in the Opening Round of the ECAC Hockey Championships next weekend.

Kraws, who leads the Hobey Baker fan vote, stopped 46 shots in 65 minutes of play and five more in the shootout.

After Nicholas Trela scored 3:24 into the game for St. Lawrence, David Jacobs and Ian Murphy each generated a goal within a span of 38 seconds to provide Princeton with a 2-1 lead.

But the Saints would score three unanswered goals to take the lead, including one each from Greg Lapointe and Gavars later in the period, with Gavars giving St. Lawrence a 4-2 lead 59 seconds into the second period.

David Jacobs and Kai Daniells followed with back-to-back goals to tie the game in the third period for the Tigers, with Daniells scoring with 3:34 left in regulation.

Goalie Ethan Pearson made 18 saves in relief of Arthur Smith for Princeton (10-14-4, 8-10-3).

WOMEN'S HOCKEY

CLARKSON 3, PRINCETON 2 (2 OT)

Alexie Guay knocked in a rebound for the winning goal 6:32 into the second overtime period to give the Golden Knights a 1-0 series lead against the Tigers in the ECAC quarterfinals at Cheel Arena in Potsdam.

Sena Catterall intercepted an attempted clearing shot and moved toward the goal on a 4-on-3 break, sending a shot on goalie Jennifer Olnowich. The rebound found Guay's stick in the slot for the decisive goal.

Clarkson (30-3-1) will attempt to clinch the series with a 3 p.m. game today at Cheel. A Princeton win would send the quarterfinal to a third game on Sunday.

The Golden Knights thwarted a Princeton victory by sending the game into overtime on a goal by Nicole Gosling with less than 90 seconds left. Gosling scored off a screen from Dominique Petrie with Clarkson skating with an extra attacker.

Princeton (14-11-6) had gone ahead 2-1 on a second-period goal by Kate Monihan but could not get around the Clarkson defense in the third, which killed off a 5-on-3 power play at one point.

Sarah Paul scored a power-play goal in the first period to tie the game for the Tigers after Jenna Goodwin gave Clarkson a 1-0 lead.

ST. LAWRENCE 4, YALE 1

Julia Gosling connected for a pair of bookend goals and Emma-Sofie Nordström recorded 31 saves to lift St. Lawrence University over Yale in the first game of the ECAC Quarterfinal series at Appleton Arena in Canton.

The Saints (26-9) will attempt to sweep the series at 3 p.m. today at Appleton Arena. A victory by Yale sends the quarterfinal to a winner-take-all Game 3.

Gosling delivered the game's first goal on the power play 3:15 into the second period and added an empty-net goal with 37 seconds remaining in the game.

Gosling gave St. Lawrence a 1-0 lead after taking a pass from Mae Batherson and shooting the pick past Yale goalie Pia Dukaric from the top of the circle.

Batherson's assist broke the Saints mark for points in a season by a defender with 36.

Katina Duscio and Anna Segedi added St. Lawrence goals within the first eight minutes of the third period. Yale's Gracie Gilkyson scored at 11:03 of the third before Gosling finished off the scoring with her second goal.

Nordström made 22 of her 31 saves in the first two periods for SLU. Dukaric stopped 18 shots for the Bulldogs (16-14-1).

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

JEFFERSON CC 75, CAYUGA CC 66 (OT)

LaKaiya Butcher struck for 30 points, sinking four crucial foul shots in overtime, as Jefferson Community College advanced to the semifinal round of the NJCAA Region 3 Tournament at JCC.

The top-seeded Cannoneers (22-2) rallied from a 38-26 halftime deficit to the No. 8 Spartans to force overtime where they topped Cayuga 9-4. Delaney Wiley hit one of her two 3-pointers in the extra session and Daelyn Alcock added a basket.

Kori Nichols contributed 16 points for JCC, which faces Fulton-Montgomery CC at 3:15 p.m. today at the McVean Gymnasium. Fulton-Montgomery defeated Herkimer College 70-45.

In the other semifinal, No. 2 Onondaga CC plays No. 3 Mohawk Valley CC at 1 p.m. today. Onondaga beat North Country 82-46 and Mohawk Valley topped Hudson Valley CC 86-51.