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Winner Bowling Green BOW 3-1-0
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RIT RIT 2-3-0
Winner
Bowling Green BOW
3-1-0
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Final
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RIT RIT
2-3-0
Score By Periods
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Bowling Green BOW 0 1 0 1 2
RIT RIT 0 1 0 0 1

Game Recap: Men's Hockey |

Men's Hockey falls, 2-1, in OT to Bowling Green in Brick City Homecoming game

ROCHESTER, N.Y.  – RIT first-year goaltender Jakub Krbecek made a career-high 43 saves, but it was visiting Bowling Green earning the 2-1 OT victory in Saturday's Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend game at Blue Cross Arena.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Following a scoreless first period, RIT got on the board at 14:43 of the second. Graduate student Dimitri Mikrogiannakis pushed a puck off the right boards to graduate student forward Nick Cafarelli at the point. Cafarelli took a shot that missed outside the right post, but junior forward Simon Isabelle collected the rebound off the end boards and wrapped a shot around the left post that deflected in off the back of Falcon goaltender Cole Moore's right skate.  
  • Bowling Green answered 1:21 later with a 4-on-3 power-play goal. The Falcons cycled a puck around the point before Dalton Norris one-timed a Ryan O'Hara feed from the right faceoff circle under Krbecek's glove.
  • Bowling Green scored the game-winner with 47.4 left in overtime after Gustav Stjernberg blocked a shot and hustled back to finish a 2-on-1 break, roofing a Ben Doran feed for the deciding tally. 
GAME NOTES
  • Krbecek made the second-most saves by a Tiger first-year goaltender and most since Josh Watson stopped 45 shots in a 5-3 home setback to No. 17 Merrimack on Jan. 1, 2011.
  • Krbecek is only the fourth Tiger first-year goaltender during the D1 era to compile 40-plus saves in a game and the first since Logan Drackett totaled 41 in a 3-3 tie versus Northeastern (Oct. 14, 2017)
  • Isabelle notched his third goal of the season to tie Mikrogiannakis for the team lead.
  • Cafarelli notched his team-leading fourth assist of the season.  
  • RIT finished 0-for-3 on the power play while killing three of four penalties.
  • The game was played in front of a sell-out crowd of 10,566 fans, marking the second-straight homecoming sellout. The Tigers also defeated Notre Dame, 3-0, in front of a capacity crowd last season. 
  • RIT lost its first homecoming game since 2014, and had a streak of five-straight wins broken. 
WHAT'S NEXT
RIT hosts Colgate next Friday and Saturday (Oct. 25-26) in its first two games at the Gene Polisseni Center of the season.