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TROY, N.Y. – Junior C.J. Lee and freshman Ryan Haggerty notched third period goals less than two minutes apart to give the Rensselaer men's hockey team a 2-2 tie with 14th-ranked Cornell at the Houston Field House. With the draw, the Engineers are now 7-18-2 (4-9-2 ECAC Hockey), while the Big Red move to 11-6-5 (8-3-4 ECAC Hockey).

Trailing by a pair of goals entering the third period, the Engineers fought back to tie the game. Lee (Staten Island, NY/Green Bay Gamblers) pulled the hosts to within 2-1 at 2:54 of the period, when he slammed home a one-timer off a wrap-around feed from senior Alex Angers-Goulet (St. Augustin, PQ/Langley Chiefs). Joel Malchuk (Brandon, MB/Dauphin Kings) earned the secondary assist after winning a puck battle behind the Cornell cage.

Just 1:28 seconds later, Haggerty (Stamford, CT/U.S. National Dev. Team) netted the game-tying goal off a pass from senior Patrick Cullen (Washington, DC/Indiana Ice). Skating into the Big Red zone from the left, Cullen slipped the puck to the right hash marks for Haggerty, who buried his sixth goal of the season. A second helper was credited to sophomore Brock Higgs (Kingston, ON/Kingston Voyageurs).

Cornell opened the scoring at 6:34 of the first period on senior assistant captain Sean Collins' (Saskatoon, SA/Waywayseecappo Wolverines) eighth of the season. Picking up the rebound off a shot by classmate Sean Whitney (Scituate, MA/Cushing Academy) Collins flipped the puck over a sprawling Bryce Merriam (Bethel Park, PA/Topeka RoadRunners) for the power-play marker.

A great individual effort by Big Red sophomore Dustin Mowrey (Burnaby, BC/Victoria Grizzlies) set up the visitors' second goal, as he deked his way through the low slot before firing a shot off the left pad of Merriam. Junior Greg Miller (Toronto, ON/St. Michael's Buzzers) was there to finish off the rebound at 15:00 of the second stanza. The goal, which came on the man-advantage, was Miller's eighth of the year.

Merriam finished with 23 saves, while Cornell sophomore netminder Andy Iles (Ithaca, NY/U.S. National Dev. Team) had 22 stops at the other end of the ice.

The Engineers are back on the ice tomorrow night, when they take on Colgate in the 35th Annual Big Red Freakout! (7:08pm). Cornell travels to Schenectady to face 11th-ranked Union (7pm).