HAMILTON – Colgate senior goaltender Charlie Finn (North Vancouver, British Columbia) became the third goaltender in program history to record 3,000 saves Friday night as the Raiders fell to the nationally ranked No. 16 St. Lawrence Saints, 3-0, at Class of 1965 Arena.
 
Finn joins Jeff Cooper '85 (3,023) and Mark Dekanich '08 (3,071) in the 3,000 save club after picking up 37 saves against the Saints. Coming into the game, Finn needed just 26 saves to reach the 3,000-save mark.
 
The Raiders and Saints played nearly a scoreless first period but Ben Finkelstein gave St. Lawrence a 1-0 lead with less than six seconds remaining in the first period. Finn tallied seven saves in the period before Finkelstein broke the scoreless tie.
 
Finn stood on his head in the second period for the Raiders, stopping all 16 shots that came his way but the Raiders could not get a shot past St. Lawrence goaltender Kyle Hayton.
 
Just before the midway point of the third period, Finn stopped a Mike Graham shot from down low for his 3,000^th career save before finishing the period with 14 saves on 16 shots.
 
St. Lawrence scored a pair of goals in a span of 2:14 to extend their lead to 3-0. Alex Gilmour redirected an Eric Sweetman shot from the point to give the Saints a power-play goal with 9:18 left in the third to make it 2-0. Jacob Pritchard received a home run pass from Graham on a breakaway where he roofed the puck past Finn to take a 3-0 lead.
 
Finn finished the game with six straight saves to give him 37 on the night, his third most in a single game this season.
 
BOTTOM LINE
St. Lawrence 3, Colgate 0
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
The Saints extend their unbeaten streak to five games and improve to 13-6-6 (9-1-3 ECAC Hockey) while the Raiders fall to 4-13-5 (2-6-2 ECAC Hockey)
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Finn became just the third goaltender in program history to record 3,000 saves, joining Jeff Cooper '85 and Mark Dekanich '08
-Finn finished the game with 3,011 career saves, just 13 away from passing Cooper (3,023) for second in program history and 61 from passing Dekanich for the most in program history
-With 37 saves Friday night, Finn recorded his third most saves in a game this season
-Bobby McMann (Wainwright, Alberta) tied for the game-high with six shots on goal one game after posting a season-high 10 at Princeton
-Brett Corkey (Calgary, Alberta) tied for the game-high with three blocked shots
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Saints outshot the Raiders, 40-24, on Friday night
-Despite going 0 for 4 on the power play, the Raiders killed off six of their seven penalties in the game
-St. Lawrence had the edge in faceoff wins, 34-26, behind Joe Sullivan's 15 for 22 performance. Evan Peterson (Lakeville, Minnesota) led the Raiders with eight faceoff wins.
 
UP NEXT
Colgate welcomes the Clarkson Golden Knights to the Class of 1965 Arena for the final game of the weekend series Saturday night with puck drop slated for 7 p.m.