Box Score

ALBANY, N.Y. - Sophomore Seth Klerer (Thornhill, Ont.) scored the game-tying goal in the third period and the only goal in a shootout and junior Jordan Alford (Red Deer, Alb.) stopped all five shots in the shootout to lead Rensselaer to the championship game of the Governor's Cup presented by Citizen's Bank at Pepsi Arena.

The Engineers, who are now 1-1-2 with the tie (the game is considered a tie in the standings), faces Colgate in Sunday's championship game beginning at 5pm.  Union, which is now 2-1-2, plays Quinnipiac in the third-place game beginning at 2pm. 

Seth Klerer gave the Engineers a 1-0 lead with a goal in the first round of the shootout, sending a low shot past the glove side of Union goaltender Justin Mrazek (Regina, Sask). Alford made it stand up, stopping all five shots he faced, and Rensselaer advanced.

Sophomore Matt Cook (Belle Mead, NJ) tallied his first goal of the season to put Union on the board at 6:54 in the first period. Cook was waiting on the doorstep to one-time a pass from junior Josh Coyle (Brooklyn, OH), who was perched behind the net.

The Engineers answered right back less than three minutes later when Andrei Uryadov (St. Petersburg, Russia) sent a cross-ice pass from deep in the Union zone up to Paul Kerins (Weston, Ont.), who maneuvered around a Union defenseman in the slot and shoved the puck behind the stick side of Mrazek.

Rensselaer took the lead midway through the second period when Kurt Colling (Ripley, Ont.) found his own rebound at the right post and jammed the puck home.  Tommy Green (Martensville, Sask.) and Matt Angers-Goulet (St. Augustin, Que.) earned assists on the play.

Union's Olivier Bouchard (Quebec City, Que.) tied the game, 2-2, on a one-timer off a cross-ice pass from Jason Walters (Renfrew, Ont.) at 15:41 of the second period.  The Dutchmen took the lead with just seven seconds left in the middle stanza when Coyle scored off the pad of netminder Jordan Alford (Red Deer, Alb.).  Augie DiMarzo (West Haven, Conn.) and T.J. Fox (Oswego, N.Y.) assisted on the goal, a power play marker.

Klerer knotted the game for the Engineers with his second goal of the season, a rebound of a Peter Merth (New Westminster, B.C.) shot.  The assists was Merth's second of the night as he also had a helper on the goal by Kerins.  Colling also had a hand in the goal, which came at 5:39.

Alford finished with 22 saves in the game, including eight in the second and third periods.  Mrazek made 30 saves, including 11 in the third period.