ROCHESTER, N.Y. – RIT junior goaltender Tommy Scarfone made a career-high 45 saves, but it was No. 10 New Hampshire pulling out a 4-3 overtime win over the No. 20 Tigers, Saturday, at the Gene Polisseni Center.
 
The Wildcats tied the game with 5.3 seconds left in regulation and notched the OT winner with 6.2 seconds on the clock to earn the weekend split after RIT won Friday's opener, 5-4.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• RIT opened the scoring with 13:07 left in the first period. Senior forward Cody Laskosky flicked a puck toward the blue line in the Tiger zone just out of reach of a New Hampshire player to junior forward Carter Wilkie, who took off down the left wing for a two-on-one break with graduate student forward Elijah Gonsalves. Wilkie slipped a cross through the Wildcat defender's legs to Gonsalves, who tipped pass through UNH goaltender Jakob Hellsten's pads.
• The Tigers took a 2-0 lead after junior forward Grady Hobbs cleaned up a short rebound in front of Hellsten during a three-shot flurry with 5:34 remaining.
• New Hampshire came back with two power play goals in the final three minutes of the first on tallies by Nick Cafarelli with 2:53 remaining and Cy LeClerc with 45.7 on the clock after RIT was whistled for a five-minute contact to the head major.
• The teams remained scoreless into the third period until the Wildcats were whistled for a holding penalty after RIT junior forward Tanner Andrew was hit from behind on a rush on Hellsten. Fifth-year defenseman Gianfranco Cassaro took a feed across the top of the zone from senior defenseman Aiden Hansen-Bukata and one-timed a shot from the right face-off circle that deflected off a New Hampshire defender's stick. First-year forward Matthew Wilde tipped the shot down out of the air and past Hellsten with 10:11 remaining in regulation. 
• New Hampshire pulled Hellsten with two minutes left in regulation for an extra skater and found the equalizer in the closing seconds as Stiven Sardarian sent a pass from behind the right goal line to an open Ryan Conmy in the slot for a one-timer under Scarfone's stick.
• In the final seconds of overtime, Conmy blocked a Cassaro shot in the slot and sprung Cy LeClerc with an outlet pass down the left half boards. LeClerc skated down the ice and wristed a shot inside the left post for the deciding tally. 

GAME NOTES

• Scarfone eclipsed the 41 saves he made in a 6-1 loss versus No. 5 Penn State (Dec. 30) last season and logged his 26th career game with at least 30 saves.
• Scarfone also moved into third place in program history (D1 era) with 1,805 saves to date and made his 63^rd career start – tied for fourth in program history with Jared DeMichiel '10.
• RIT notched a power play goal on two extra-man attempts, while killing four of six Wildcat power plays.
• Gonsalves notched his 30^th career goal and ranks 25^th in program history (D1 era) with 74 points.
• Hobbs and Wilde each notched their fifth goals of the season.
• Andrew and Hansen-Bukata are tied for the team lead with seven assists apiece, followed by Wilkie and Laskosky with six each. 

WHAT'S NEXT
RIT returns to Atlantic Hockey action opposite visiting Robert Morris next Friday and Saturday (Dec. 1-2) at 7:05 p.m. both nights.