Iles Earns Third Straight Shutout as Cornell Wins Fifth Straight

Final	1	2	3	Final
Niagara (2-5-3)	0	0	0	0
Cornell (6-2)	0	0	1	1

Scoring Summary
3rd - 09:03	PP - D'Agostino, Nick (Cornell)

Niagara	Cornell
G: N/A A: N/A Sh: 2 Players (#11, #28 - 4) Sv: DROST, Colby - 22	G: Nick D'Agostino - 1 A: 2 Players (#16, #17 - 1) Sh: Brian Ferlin - 6 Sv: Andy Iles - 24

TEAM STATISTICS	Niagara	Cornell
Power Plays	0 for 3	1 for 5
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	5 (10)	3 (6)
Shots on Goal	24	23
Face Offs Won	26	29

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ITHACA, N.Y. – Sophomore goalie Andy Iles’ shutout streak reached three games on Tuesday, helping push the Big Red men’s hockey team’s winning streak to five games after a 1-0 victory over visiting Niagara at Lynah Rink.

Iles made 24 saves to push his personal shutout streak to 202 minutes, 28 seconds, which ranks third all-time in program history. Only Ben Scrivens ’10 has posted longer streaks of 206:44 and 267:11.
 
Junior defenseman Nick D’Agostino’s power-play goal held up as the winner in the team’s final game before the highly anticipated Red Hot Hockey matchup against Boston University on Saturday at Madison Square Garden. D’Agostino netted his team-leading sixth goal with 10:57 remaining in the third period on the Big Red’s fifth chance on the man advantage. He exchanged passes with junior Greg Miller a couple of times before Miller’s shot from the top of the left circle was knifed down by the defense. But D’Agostino found the puck toward the left side of the slot and beat Niagara goalie Colby Drost with a back-handed poke inside the far post.
 
The goal is D’Agostino’s fourth on the power play this season, and it pushes Miller’s season-long point streak to eight games.
 
Seventeenth-ranked Cornell (6-2) got off to a slow start, but was bailed out repeatedly by Iles. Niagara (2-5-3) forward Mike Benedict had a breakaway 4:56 into the second period, making a move to his forehand that was foiled by Iles’ outstretched left leg. The Purple Eagles then came down ice on a clean two-on-one near the halfway point of the frame, only to have Patrick Divjak’s shot from the right circle clank off the mask of Iles, who cut down the angle.
 
The Big Red then got one of its bigger saves of the game in the final minute, when Iles kicked out a rebound to his left that was forced back toward goal by a Niagara attacker. But defenseman Braden Birch slid across the goal mouth and flagged down the shot with his left glove.
 
Cornell continues non-league play on Saturday against No. 15 Boston University in front of an anticipated sold-out crowd at MSG before resuming ECAC Hockey play the following weekend against visiting St. Lawrence (Friday, Dec. 2) and Clarkson (Saturday, Dec. 3).