Comeback Bid Falls Short for Big Green

Final	1	2	3	OT	Final
Dartmouth (7-8-2, 4-5-1 ECACH)	0	2	1	0	3
Cornell (11-4-3, 8-1-2 ECACH)	1	2	0	1	4

Scoring Summary
1st - 05:48	Ferlin, Brian (Cornell)
2nd - 04:39	PP - Mowrey, Dustin (Cornell)
2nd - 17:55	Goggin, Mark (Dartmouth)
2nd - 18:31	PP - Jones, Doug (Dartmouth)
2nd - 19:33	Jillson, Locke (Cornell)
3rd - 09:46	PP - Neiley, Eric (Dartmouth)
OT - 02:05	PP - Bardreau, Cole (Cornell)

Dartmouth	Cornell
G: 3 Players (#11, #13, #14 - 1) A: Eric Neiley - 2 Sh: Mark Goggin - 5 Sv: Cab Morris - 17	G: 4 Players (#8, #17, #20, #22 - 1) A: 7 Players (#5, #6, #10, #12, #17, #19, #20 - 1) Sh: 2 Players (#19, #22 - 4) Sv: Andy Iles - 25

TEAM STATISTICS	Dartmouth	Cornell
Power Plays	2 for 4	2 for 5
Shorthanded Goals	0	0
Penalties (min)	6 (12)	5 (10)
Shots on Goal	28	21
Face Offs Won	29	29

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ITHACA, N.Y. - Cole Bardreau scored 2:05 into overtime to give Cornell a 4-3 win in a thrilling game Friday night at Lynah Rink with the Dartmouth's men's hockey team. The Big Green (7-8-2, 4-5-1 ECAC) forced overtime with a game-tying goal in the third, but the No.  9 Big Red (11-4-3, 8-1-2 ECAC) capitalized on a power play in the extra period to earn the ECAC Hockey victory.

Freshman Eric Neiley (Warminster, Pa.) recorded the first multi-point game of his career with a goal and two assists. His third-period power-play marker tied the game with 10:14 remaining and sent the game to OT after neither team was able to score the duration of regulation.

Sophomore goaltender Cab Morris (Wilmette, Ill.) had 17 saves in the game as the Dartmouth defense limited Cornell to just 21 shots.

After falling behind 2-0 midway through the second, the Big Green offense finally woke up and scored twice in a 36-second span after just two in the previous 180-plus minutes of action.

Playing in just his sixth game of the season, junior winger Mark Goggin (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) scored his second of the year and first since early November 17:55 into the middle frame. Goggin, fresh out of the penalty box, found space over the left pad of Cornell goaltender Andy Iles to cut the deficit to one, 2-1. The goal ended a stretch of 350:36 for Iles without allowing a goal at Lynah.

Just 36 seconds later, senior Doug Jones (Marietta, Ga.) tied the game with a power-play goal inside the right post for his fifth of the season. Cornell's Nick D'Agostino put the Big Green on the man-advantage 10 seconds after Goggin's goal with roughing penalty, giving Dartmouth the chance to get the equalizer.

Senior defender Connor Goggin (Glen Ellyn, Ill.) was credited with an assist after his shot from the point ended up on the stick on Jones in the low slot. Neiley also picked up a helper on the Jones' goal, his second of the night after also playing a part, along with Charlie Mosey (Prior Lake, Minn.), on Goggin's goal 36 seconds earlier.

Locke Jillson halted the Dartmouth push with a bullet over the glove of Morris to make it 3-2 with 58 seconds left in the second.

Neiley's rocket shot on the power play midway through the third tied the game with sophomore Matt Lindblad (Winnetka, Ill.) and freshman Tyler Sikura (Aurora, Ontario) getting the assists off the offensive zone faceoff.

Unfortunately for the visitors on this night, a penalty call a minute into the overtime proved costly as the Big Red scored the winner with the man-advantage. Bardreau knocked hom a loose puck ay the top of the crease to send the 4,200 in attendance into a frenzy.

Dartmouth finished the night 2-for-4 on the power play, while Cornell was 2-of-5 on its opportunities with the extra player.

Iles was credited 25 saves on the night as the Dartmouth offense controlled tempo throughout the game and was firing pucks on net from all areas of the attacking zone.

The Big Green will travel to Hamilton, N.Y., tomorrow for a 7 p.m. match-up with No. 18 Colgate at Starr Rink to close out a five-game road swing away. Dartmouth will be back home next weekend for games against Brown and Yale.

NOTES: The 36-second span between goals in the second period was the third-fastest mark of the season as the Big Green had markers 28 seconds apart against Quinnipiac (Nov. 4) and 22 seconds apart against Holy Cross (Dec. 30)...Dartmouth went to overtime for just the third time this season. The previous two games were ties with Harvard (3-3) and St. Lawrence (2-2); both at hom...Friday night marked the first time this season that the Big Green scored twice on the power play in the same game... Dartmouth has not won at Cornell since a 5-3 ECAC Hockey Tournament victory on March 8, 2008 and in the regular season since Nov. 11, 2006 with a 3-2 win.