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Robert Morris RMU 2-10-3, 1-8-2
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Winner RIT RIT 9-4-0, 7-2-0
Robert Morris RMU
2-10-3, 1-8-2
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Final
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RIT RIT
9-4-0, 7-2-0
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Robert Morris RMU 0 0 1 1
RIT RIT 0 2 2 4

Game Recap: Men's Hockey |

No. 19/19 Men's Hockey shoots past Robert Morris, 4-1

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – RIT fifth-year defenseman Gianfranco Cassaro was credited with what proved to be his fifth game-winning goal of the season in the No. 19/19 Tigers' 4-1 Atlantic Hockey victory over visiting Robert Morris, Friday.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • RIT out-shot the Colonials, 25-2, in the first period, but didn't get one past RMU goaltender Chad Veltri until the opening minutes of the second. First-year forward Tyler Fukakusa put a puck on goal in front of a crowded crease that eventually deflected into the net off graduate student forward Caleb Moretz' stick with 16:42 on the clock.
  • Cassaro made it a 2-0 game with 5:29 on the clock, taking a pass down the right half boards from graduate student forward Elijah Gonsalves and beating Veltri, glove side, with a wrist shot from inside the faceoff circle.  
  • RIT took a 3-0 lead early 1:41 into the third after junior forward Carter Wilkie pounced on a Colonial turnover in the Tiger zone and pushed a puck forward to Laskosky in the neutral zone. The pair out-skated two defenders back where Laskosky slid a puck to the left post for Wilkie to jam past Veltri.
  • Robert Morris got on the board with 3:26 left in regulation after Logan Ganie scored from the slot under Tiger junior goaltender Tommy Scarfone's pads off a Rylee St. Onge pass.
  • Sophomore forward Simon Isabelle closed the scoring with an empty-net goal with 1:40 left in regulation. 
GAME NOTES
  • Cassaro scored his team-leading seventh goal of the campaign – tied for second nationally among defenseman. Also the 25th tally of his career, his fifth game-winner this season tied Boston College's Cutter Gauthier for first-place nationally.
  • Scarfone stopped 15 shots for his ninth win of the season and 39th of his career – tied for fourth in D1-era history with Louis Menard '09. He also tied Jared DeMichiel '10 for fourth with his 65th career appearance.
  • Laskosky notched two assists and moved into the team lead with 13 points (5G/8A) in his 100th career appearance.
  • Senior defenseman Aiden Hansen-Bukata notched his eighth assist of the season to tie Laskosky for the team lead.
  • The Tigers took a season-high 54 shots on goal, eclipsing the 51 they took in the 2-0 setback to Mercyhurst (Nov. 11). RIT's 25 first-period shots were also a single-period high, four better than the 21 it took in the second period of the Mercyhurst setback.
  • Senior defenseman Dimitri Mikrogiannakis blocked two shots and leads RIT with 26 this season.
  • RIT only committed two penalties for a season-low four penalty minutes. The Tigers committed two penalties for seven minutes in the 5-2 setback to Sacred Heart (Oct. 21).
  • Veltri finished the game with 50 saves, becoming only the 10th goaltender in Atlantic Hockey history to eclipse 3,000 stops. 
WHAT'S NEXT
RIT hosts Robert Morris on Saturday (Dec. 2) for a rematch at 7:05 p.m.