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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Jerry D'Amigo had a goal and two assists, Chase Polacek scored twice and Brandon Pirri had a goal and an assist to lead the Rensselaer men's hockey team to a 5-4 victory over Harvard.  The Engineers came back from two two-goal deficits, including a 2-0 score two minutes into the game, to move into fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings.

RPI is now 16-12-3 overall and 9-6-2 in ECAC Hockey, which is good enough for fourth place.  The Engineers have 20 points, which is four behind Cornell, Yale and Union.  Harvard falls to 6-15-3 and 6-8-3 and sit in eighth place with 15 points.

The game at the Bright Hockey Center did not start well for visiting Rensselaer, which found itself trailing by two goals just 1:51 into the contest.  The Crimson scored an unassisted goal at just 18 seconds and tallied again at the 1:51 mark.  RPI got one goal back when D'Amigo (Binghamton, NY / U.S. National Under-18 Team) scored at 11:05.  Harvard quickly regained its two-goal advantage with a power play goal 1:39 later.

Rensselaer's Bryan Brutlag (Lakeville, MN / Holy Angels) pulled the visitors to within one goal at 14:27 and Polacek (Edina, MN / Holy Angels) tied it only nine seconds later.

The Crimson regained its advantage at 4:04 of the middle frame but Polacek scored his second of the night - and 20th of the season - at 6:55.  D'Amigo earned his second assist of the night, while Scott Halpern (Boca Raton, FL / Bay State Breakers) also had a helper.

It was Pirri (Toronto, ON / Georgetown Raiders) who notched the eventual game-winner when he scored a power play goal at 9:31 of the second period.  Sophomore defenseman Mike Bergin (Ottawa, ON / Smiths Falls Bears) had the only assist on the play.

Sophomore Allen York (Wetaskiwin, AB / Camrose Kodiaks) came up with 10 saves in the third period and 29 overall to earn the win.  Two Harvard netminders combined for 18 saves in defeat.