SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – Sophomore goaltender Owen Savory made 14 of his 24 saves in the third period to help the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) men's hockey team to a 3-2 victory over Union College, on Friday night at Messa Rink. With the win the Engineers improve to 3-2-0 (1-0-0 ECAC Hockey), while the Dutchmen drop to 0-7-0 (0-1-0 ECAC Hockey).

RPI opened the scoring at 6:40 of the first period, when senior captain Will Reilly snapped a shot into the top left corner of the net for his second goal of the season. Sophomore Ottoville Leppanen (Espoo, Finland/Espoo Blues U20) set him up with a pass from behind the goal, while freshman Zach Dubinsky (Highland Park, IL/Lincoln Stars) picked up the secondary assist.

Senior Anthony Rinaldi (Montreal, PQ/Kingston Voyageurs) brought the hosts even at 9:49 of the period, stealing a puck in front of the RPI net and lifting a shot past Savory (Cambridge, ON/St. Catharines Falcons) for his second goal of the year.

The visitors regained a one-goal (2-1) advantage at 13:10 of the opening frame on a rebound tally from senior Chase Zieky (Avon, CT/Salmon Arm Silverbacks). Sophomore Ture Linden (Great Falls, VA/Lone Star Brahmas) took a shot from the left circle that stopped by Union senior netminder Darion Hanson (East Bethel, MN/Vernon Vipers), but the puck fell to the edge of the crease for Zieky to tap home. Sophomore Kyle Hallbauer (Howell, NJ/Lone Star Brahmas) collected the secondary assist.

Junior Billy Jerry (River Falls, WI/Madison Capitals) made it a 3-1 game at 7:14 of the second, netting the frame's only goal off a feed from sophomore Tommy Lee (Calgary, AB/Chilliwack Chiefs).

Union drew to within 3-2 with a power play goal by freshman Gabriel Seger (Uppsala, Sweden/Amarillo Bulls) at 4:44 of the third period. His shot found its way through traffic and into the left side of the RPI net. Assists on the play went to freshman Dylan Anhorn (Calgary, AB/Prince George Spurce Kings) and junior Sean Harrison (Anchorage, AK/Bloomington Thunder).

The Dutchmen pulled Hanson for an extra skater with 1:30 to play, but could not find an equalizing goal.

Savory (2-1-0) made five saves in each of the first two periods before stop 14 of 15 in the third. Hanson (0-7-0) had 27 stops at the other end of the ice.

RPI, which is now unbeaten in its last four games against Dutchmen (3-0-1) went 0 for 4 on the power play, while Union was 1 for 4.

Both teams are back in action tomorrow night for game two of the weekend series at the Houston Field House in Troy (7pm).