Bogosian Lifts Saints with Overtime Winner

Final	1	2	3	OT	Final
Clarkson (8-23-4)	1	0	1	0	2
St. Lawrence (16-13-7)	1	1	0	1	3

Scoring Summary
1st - 00:40	BOLLIG, Brandon (St. Lawrence)
1st - 16:48	DeFAZIO, Brandon (Clarkson)
2nd - 08:18	PP - CURRAN, Alex (St. Lawrence)
3rd - 06:37	PP - BOROWIECKI, Mark (Clarkson)
OT - 10:09	BOGOSIAN, Aaron (St. Lawrence)

Clarkson	St. Lawrence
G: 2 Players (#55, #77 - 1) A: 3 Players (#8, #9, #19 - 1) Sh: Brandon DeFazio - 5 Sv: Paul Karpowich - 47	G: 3 Players (#17, #32, #81 - 1) A: George Hughes - 2 Sh: 2 Players (#26, #32 - 7) Sv: Alex Petizian - 21

TEAM STATISTICS	Clarkson	St. Lawrence
Power Plays	1 for 2	1 for 4
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	4 (8)	2 (4)
Shots on Goal	23	50
Face Offs Won	29	49

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Junior center Aaron Bogosian collected a rebound off the back boards and tucked it between Clarkson University goalie Paul Karpowich and the post with 10:09 gone in overtime to lift St. Lawrence University to a 3-2 win over its arch rival in game one of a best-of-three ECAC playoff series at Appleton Arena in Canton Friday night.

The fifth-seeded Saints, 16-13-7, hosted 12^th-seed Clarkson, now 8-23-4, in a home playoff game for the first time since 1983 and can clinch a trip to the quarterfinals with a win in Saturday's game two. Clarkson can force a deciding game on Sunday with a win in game two.

St. Lawrence dominated the game, outshooting Clarkson 50-23 in shots on goal, but Karpowich, a sophomore, kept the Knights in it with an outstanding display of goaltending.

"That was a great hockey game," said Saint coach Joe Marsh. "I thought our guys played very well and the stats really show that we did a good job possessing the puck and generating some offense. We had 50 shots and they blocked a ton of shots as well.

"It was everything we expected and it will be another battle on Saturday," Marsh added.

The game-winning play started as freshman defenseman George Hughes took the puck at the left point and rifled a shot which sailed just wide of the cage. The puck bounced off the back boards and right onto the stick of Bogosian at the right post and Bogosian tucked it away for his ninth of the year before Karpowich could get back across the make a save.

It took the Saints just 40 seconds to score the game's first goal as rookie wing Kyle Flanagan took the puck off a faceoff win by Bogosian and zipped a cross crease pass which sophomore Brandon Bollig redirected into the wide open upper corner of the net for his seventh of the year.

The Golden Knights, who were outshot 7-2 in the first eight minutes of the game, came back to tie it up at the 16:48 mark of the first as junior wing Brandon DeFazio picked up a rebound of a shot by Louke Oakley which was kicked out by Saint goalie Alex Petizian and slid the puck back into the net.

St. Lawrence regained the lead on its second power play chance of the game as freshman defenseman George Hughes took a hard shot from the center slot which Karpowich saved, but senior wing Alex Curran pounced on the rebound and put his eighth of the year back into the net at 8:18 to make it a 2-1 game after two periods.

While St. Lawrence outshot Clarkson 27-7 over the second and third periods, the Golden Knights scored the only goal of the third to force overtime. Sophomore defenseman Mark Borowiecki scored his seventh of the year on a power play rush as he put a shot just past Petizian's glove and inside the far post at 6:37.

Petizian picked up his second straight win in goal and finished the game with 21 saves, three of them in overtime. While he made only two in the third period, one was a game-saver on a wide open drive by DeFazio just after Clarkson had tied the score.

The playoff win was the first for the Saints over Clarkson after eight consecutive losses, all of which were on the road. The last time the two teams met in Canton, Clarkson forced the game to a mini-game with a win in game two before the Saints prevailed and advanced to the semifinals.