Special Teams Does Tigers In During 6-2 Loss to RPI

Jan. 28, 2000

PRINCETON, N.J. - The Princeton men's hockey team jumped out to a 1-0 lead on Rensselaer and looked like it might have shaken off the rust from the two-week break for finals.

Then the power play showed that there were still some flaws left to fix. It didn't even matter which team was on the power play, because the result was too often a Rensselaer goal.

Freshman Marc Cavosie scored twice shorthanded and added an even-strength goal to lead Rensselaer to a 6-2 win over the Tigers at a sold-out Baker Rink tonight. Brad Tapper and Andrew McPherson scored on two-man advantages while Pete Gardiner added an even-strength goal for the explosive Engineers.

It started well enough for the Tigers when David Del Monte found a cutting Josh Roberts for an early goal. The Tigers hoped to add to the lead on a power play, but Cavosie scored his first of three goals at the 11:00 mark of the first period.

After Gardiner and Tapper scored early in the second period, David Schneider blasted a goal on the power play to cut the deficit to 3-2.

It would get no closer. Led by Cavosie, whose second goal was shorthanded and proved to deflate the Tigers, Rensselaer drove the lead to 6-2 and skated away with the win.

Princeton will host Union College tomorrow night at 7 p.m.

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