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Men's Hockey Picks Up Tie With Harvard

Late Higgs goal earns Engineers 2-2 draw

Brock Higgs
Box Score

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Sophomore Brock Higgs scored the game-tying goal with just over a minute to go in regulation, to send the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's hockey team home with a 2-2 tie against Harvard University, this evening in ECAC Hockey action, at Bright Hockey Center. With the draw, the Engineers move to 7-19-3 overall (4-10-3 ECACH), while the Crimson are now 7-7-10 (6-4-8 ECACH).

Trailing by a goal with only 1:03 left in the third period, Higgs (Kingston, ON/Kingston Voyageurs) buried the extra-attacker tally to even the score for the final time. Junior C.J. Lee (Staten Island, NY/Green Bay Gamblers), who scored the Engineers' first goal, earned the primary assist, while senior Patrick Cullen (Washington, DC/Indiana Ice) earned the secondary.

The Engineers netted the game's first goal at 15:39 of the first period, when Lee picked up a loose puck in front of the Harvard net, and stuck home his sixth goal of the season. Classmate Nick Bailen (Fredonia, NY/Indiana Ice) took the initial shot from the right point and Lee was there to bury the rebound. Fellow junior Marty O'Grady (London, ON/Wellington Dukes) also earned an assist.

Junior Alex Fallstrom (Stockholm, Sweden/Shattuck-St. Mary's) pulled the hosts even (1-1) at 17:22 of the frame, picking up a rebound at the edge of the RPI crease and flipping it over a sprawling Bryce Merriam (Bethel Park, PA/Topeka RoadRunners) for his ninth tally of the year. Marshall and Max Everson (Edina, MN/Edina) earned the helpers on the game-tying goal.

After a scoreless second period, Harvard took a 2-1 lead at 10:09 of the third as junior Luke Griener (Faribault, MN/Shattuck-St. Mary's) finished off a well-executed 2-on-1 following a Rensselaer turnover in the neutral zone. Senior Eric Kroshus stole the puck along the right wing boards and carried the puck into the zone before slipping a centering pass to Greiner for his seventh goal.

Merriam finished with saves, while Harvard sophomore netminder Raphael Girard (Saint-Hyacinthe, PQ/Northwood) had 27.

The Engineers are back on the ice tomorrow night, when they travel to Hanover, N.H., to take on Dartmouth (7pm).
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