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Winner RIT RIT 9-2-0, 6-2-0
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Robert Morris RMU 2-7-1, 2-2-0
Winner
RIT RIT
9-2-0, 6-2-0
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Final
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Robert Morris RMU
2-7-1, 2-2-0
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 F
RIT RIT 1 1 1 3
Robert Morris RMU 2 0 0 2

Game Recap: Men's Hockey |

Men's Hockey defeats Robert Morris, 3-2, on late Catalano game-winner

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. – RIT junior forward Christian Catalano scored the game-winning goal with 46.5 seconds left in regulation and added an assist to lead the Tigers to a 3-2 victory at Robert Morris, Saturday, in Atlantic Hockey America (AHA) play.
 
Coupled with Friday's 2-1 victory, RIT swept both games of the AHA weekend series with the Colonials while winning its ninth-consecutive victory—tied for the nation's longest winning streak.
 
Trailing, 2-1, after the first period, sophomore forward Ty Whyte tied the game early in the second, setting up Catalano's eventual game-winner in the final minute.

Senior forward Tyler Mahan scored his team-leading sixth goal of the season while senior forward Simon Isabelle notched two assists.
 
Sophomore goaltender Jakub Krbecek stopped 20 shots to win his ninth-straight decision.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
RMU scored 25 seconds into the game, working a puck below the goal line where Ryan Taylor centered a feed to George Krotiris in the slot for a finish over Krbecek's blocker.
 
RIT answered less than two minutes later. Catalano played a puck in the neutral zone to Isabelle, who broke over the blue line down the right boards for a two-on-one chance with Mahan. Isabelle faked a shot in the slot and slid a cross to Mahan outside the left post for a short finish at 2:16.
 
RMU retook the lead at 12:37 after Greg Japchen intercepted a Tiger clearing attempt at the blue line and sent a puck back into the RIT zone. The puck hit the stick of a RIT defender and redirected into the goal over Krbeck's shoulder inside the left post.
 
RIT retied the game at 2:28 of the second. Whyte won a faceoff in the RMU zone back to junior defenseman Ben Roger, who shuffled a puck to senior defenseman Crossley Stewart at the left point. Whyte tipped a shot by Stewart out of the air that bounced across the crease and past goaltender Charlie Schenkel inside the right post.   
   
RIT found the go-ahead goal with under a minute left in regulation. Sophomore forward Mathieu Cobetto-Roy battled a puck out of the neutral zone to drop a pass to Isabelle along the left boards before getting decked by a Colonial defender. Isabelle took a shot from distance that deflected off Schenkel's pads, but ended up on Catalano's stick at the right hashes for a short finish inside an open right post.
   
GAME NOTES
  • RIT is tied with top-ranked Michigan State for the nation's longest winning streak. The Spartans defeated Notre Dame, 3-1, in the night's other action to also earn their ninth win in as many outings.
  • RIT's nine-game winning streak is the third-longest in D1-era program history. The Tigers are also 9-2-0 for only the second time in D1-era history, joining the 2022-23 squad that opened the season with an 11-2-0 record.
  • Catalano scored his team-leading 11th point of the season.
  • Stewart extended his team-best four-game streak with an assist while moving into the assist lead with eight—one more than Isabelle.
  • RIT and RMU tied with 22 shots on goal apiece.
  • The Tigers killed three Colonial power plays while going scoreless on two extra-man attempts.
  • Trailing by a goal after the first 20 minutes of play, RIT was outscored in a period for the first time in nine games.   
WHAT'S NEXT
RIT plays at AHA-rival Niagara on Tuesday (Nov. 18) at 7:05 p.m. to continue its six-game road trip.