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Men's Hockey Blanks Clarkson 3-0
November 12, 2011 | Men's Ice Hockey
PRINCETON, N.J. (11/12/11) - The Princeton men's hockey team got back on track with a 3-0 shutout of Clarkson on Saturday, Nov. 12 at Baker Rink. Three different Tigers scored with freshman Aaron Kesselman scoring the game winner.
Princeton got on the board just 2:03 into the game and added two more goals in the third period in a high energy game in front of nearly 2,000 fans on Alumni Day.
Junior forward James Kerr earned his first career point when got the puck from the behind the goal and swung it around the boards to the right side to junior Will MacDonald. MacDonald came around the back of the cage and the slide the puck across the goal mouth to Kesselman who was waiting on the far post for his second goal of the season.
Senior Derrick Pallis helped to set up Princeton's second goal, a power-play goal at 7:08 of the third. He skated the puck into the zone and wheeled around by the goal line extended. He dished the puck up ice to sophomore Andrew Calof at the point who skated to the center and dropped the puck off to a circling Pallis. Pallis fired a shot between the top of the two circles where it was tipped in by Berger on the doorstep.
Senior Marc Hagel iced the win with an empty net 5x6 goal with 1:25 remaining. Freshman Aaron Ave applied pressure behind the cage to a Clarkson skater who slipped in the corner and the puck slid out into the circle to Hagel. Hagel brought the puck up to the checkered red and fired the puck into the empty net, his first of the year.
Sophomore goalie Sean Bonar earned his second win of the season, stopping 26 shots. Paul Karpowich made 28 saves in goal for Clarkson.
Princeton outshot Clarkson 31-26, was 1 for 2 on the power play and 1 for 1 on the penalty kill.
Princeton improves to 2-4-1 overall and 2-3 in the ECAC, while Clarkson drops to 6-3-3 overall and 1-2-1 in league play.
The Tigers will be on the road for the next two weekends, with a trip to Central New York first on the list. Princeton will face Cornell on Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m., and Colgate on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 4 p.m.