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Josh Boland
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Clarkson CLA 9-7-1
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Winner RIT RIT 13-6-0
Clarkson CLA
9-7-1
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Final
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RIT RIT
13-6-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
Clarkson CLA 0 0 0 0
RIT RIT 3 0 1 4

Game Recap: Men's Hockey |

No. 18/19 Men's Hockey shuts out Clarkson, 4-0

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – RIT junior goaltender Tommy Scarfone totaled 33 saves in the No. 18/19 Tigers' 4-0 victory over visiting Clarkson, Friday.
 
Fifth-year defenseman Gianfranco Cassaro, junior forward Grady Hobbs and first-year forward Matthew Wilde tallied first-period goals to stake RIT to a 3-0 lead while Scarfone blanked the Golden Knights for his seventh-career shutout – tied for second in D1-era program history.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • RIT opened the scoring when Wilde took a right-wing cross from first-year forward Tyler Fukakusa and snapped a wrist shot over Clarkson goaltender Austin Roden's glove at 4:27 of the first.
  • Senior forward Cody Laskosky later posted up in front of the Clarkson crease and sent a between-the-legs feed to Cassaro for a one-timer from low in the right face-off circle at 11:59.
  • Graduate student forward Elijah Gonsalves then skated a puck out of the Tiger zone down the right boards and all the way around the Clarkson net before finding Hobbs all alone for a short finish inside the right post at 15:51.
  • The teams were scoreless until the final minute of regulation when junior forward Carter Wilkie won a faceoff in the Tiger zone back to Cassaro, who banked a clear off the glass that deflected all the way down the ice into the empty net with 50.4 on the clock. 
GAME NOTES
  • Scarfone notched his 29th-career game with at least 30 saves while tying Jared DeMichiel '10 on the Tigers' career shutout list. He also broke a tie with DeMichiel to move into sole possession of second with his 42nd career win – one short of Logan Drackett '21 for the most in D1-era program history.
  • Hansen-Bukata's second assist was his 60th-career point.
  • RIT killed all six Clarkson power play attempts, and finished 1-for-4 with an extra man.
  • Cassaro moved into the team lead with his eighth and ninth goals of the season while Wilde tied Wilkie for second with his eighth goal of the campaign.
  • Wilkie went 18-for-24 in the faceoff circle while he and Laskosky each added their team-high 18th points of the winter. 
WHAT'S NEXT
RIT finishes the weekend hosting St. Lawrence on Saturday (Jan. 6) at 5:05 p.m.