Box Score

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell scored three goals in the first period and the 11th-ranked Big Red held Rensselaer to just one goal on its way to a 4-1 victory over the Engineers in an ECAC Hockey contest at Lynah Rink.

Cornell snapped a three-game losing streak to improve to 16-6-4 overall and 11-5-3 in the league.  It remains in third place in the standings.  RPI falls to 7-22-2 and 6-12-1 and remains in tenth place.

The Big Red opened the scoring at 4:13 of the opening stanza when senior forward Tyler Mugford tallied his third goal of the year. Evan Barlow, another senior forward, doubled the lead 4:40 later and Mugford's second of the night made it 3-0 at the 11:03 mark.

Cornell's Blake Gallagher, a junior forward, put the home team in front 4-0 at 11:51 of the second period with his fifth marker of the season. Brothers Brendan and Riley Nash, both of whom earned assists on the second goal, set up the marker, which came on the power play.

RPI got a goal back at 10:07 of the third period when junior forward Garett Vassel (Northampton, NY/New York Apple Core) notched his first of the season with assists from sophomore defensemen John Kennedy (Saginaw, MI/St. Louis Bandits) and Bryan Brutlag (Lakeville, MN/Academy of Holy Angels). The Engineers got a power play off the ensuing faceoff but were unable to cut their deficit in half.

Senior Mathias Lange (Klagenfurt, Austria/New York Apple Core) finished with 19 saves for the Engineers, who travel to Colgate on Saturday for a game to be televised in the Capital Region on Time Warner Cable (7pm).

Junior Ben Scrivens, one of the top goaltenders in the nation, made 24 saves, including nine in the third period, for Cornell, which hosts Union on Saturday.