Boxscore

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Sophomore goaltender Zane Kalemba made 27 saves to record his third shutout of the postseason and lead the 15th-ranked Princeton men's hockey team to the ECAC Hockey Championship game with a 3-0 win over Colgate in the semifinals on Friday afternoon at the Times Union Center. Freshman Matt Arhontas scored to give the Tigera 1-0 lead at 8:04 of the third period.

For the first two periods and the start of the third period, Kalemba was the star of the game, making one sprawling save after another. In the first period, he kept things scoreless with two greats stops on Colgate's Tyler Burton. One came on a breakaway when Kalemba made a glove stop, the he robbed Burton with a glove save when Burton was alone on the side of the net.

Kalemba made 13 saves in the opening stanza and followed it up with six in the second period. Perhaps his best save came in the third period when he stoned Brian Day on a one-timer of a 2-on-pass as he slid across the crease.

Princeton finally got the break it needed at 8:04 of the third period when a Colgate clearing attempt hit off sophomore Mark Magnowski at the blue line and bounced to freshman Matt Arhontas in the Colgate zone. Arhontas was alone in the zone and went in on Colgate netminder Mark Dekanich on a breakaway. Arhontas skated in and scored with a quick shot through the legs of Dekanich to break the scoreless tie and put Princeton ahead for good. The goal was his fourth of the post season and his ninth of the year. Arhontas now has goals in five-straight games.

Colgate came within inches of knotting the score with 14:30 left in the period, but Kalemba held along the goal line and the play countered the other way and resulted in freshman Kevin Lohry scoring his third goal of the season. Lohry got the puck from senior Keith Shattenkirk who sent Lohry into the Colgate zone and he was able to tuck the puck through the legs of Dekanich to give Princeton a 2-0 lead. Senior Landis Stankievech also assisted on the goal.

Lohry closed out the scoring at 19:39 with an empty-net goal from Shattenkirk.

Kalemba finished the night with 27 saves for his fifth shutout of the season and his third of the postseason. The third postseason shutout sets a new ECAC Hockey Tournament record for shutouts in a season.

Princeton improved to 20-13 with the win and ties a program record for 20 wins in a season, equaling the mark of the 1998-99 Tigers.

Princeton will play for the ECAC Hockey Championship tomorrow evening at 7 p.m. against either Cornell or Harvard, which are playing this evening in the second semifinal game.