HAMILTON – Jacob Panetta (Belleville, Ontario) scored the game-winning goal with 46.6 seconds left in the third period to give the Colgate men's ice hockey team a 2-1 victory over the Brown Bears Saturday night at Class of 1965 Arena.
 
Rory McGuire (Bracebridge, Ontario) started the rush from the defensive zone where he hit Mike Panowyk (Whitby, Ontario) with a pass at the left wall on the red line. Panowyk skated the puck into the offensive zone where he tried to pass the puck to Jared Cockrell (Byfield, Massachusetts) but it was tipped up by a Brown defenseman. Cockrell chased the puck down and his shot go off Brown goaltender Gavin Nieto's pads right to Panetta who slid the puck passed Nieto on the ice.
 
The goal stands as Panetta's first career game-winning goal and the second goal of his career after scoring against Quinnipiac at home in November.
 
Goaltender Colton Point (North Bay, Ontario) tallied his second win of the season, making 20 saves for the Raiders. After a two-save first period, Point stood on his head to making 18 over the final 40 minutes, including 12 in the second period.
 
Both teams skated to a scoreless draw through the first two periods before the offenses really got going.
 
Colgate took a 1-0 lead 4:49 into the third period on Evan Peterson's (Lakeville, Minnesota) sixth goal of the season. John Snodgrass (Eagan, Minnesota) won a faceoff in the offensive zone and Bobby McMann (Wainwright, Alberta) chased down the puck. McMann eventually controlled the puck and skated to the right side of the goal where he found McMann for the one-timer in the slot.
 
The lead didn't last long as Brown retaliated to tie the game just 29 seconds later. Sam Lafferty received a feed from Max Willman below the end line before tapping the puck over Point for his ninth goal of the season.
 
Colgate and Brown exchanged power plays for much of the next 10 minutes in the game before Panetta scored his game-winner with 46.6 seconds left in regulation to hand the Raiders the 2-1 win.
 
BOTTOM LINE
Colgate 2, Brown 1
 
WON-LOST RECORDS
Colgate improves to 7-17-5 (5-10-2 ECAC Hockey) by snapping their four-game losing streak while Brown's winless streak extends to five games with the loss and falls to 4-18-2 (3-13-1 ECAC Hockey)
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Panetta's game-winning goal was the first of his career and second overall goal
-Peterson scored his sixth goal of the season and third in the last four games
-McMann tied Jake Kulevich (Marblehead, Massachusetts) and Brett Corkey (Calgary, Alberta) for the most points on the team with his 15^th of the season
-Snodgrass picked up his 12^th assist of the season, tying Kulevich for the most on the Raiders
-Cockrell picked up his first assist since Jan. 27^th to get his ninth assist and 13^th point of the season
-Panowyk has three assists in his last six games, giving him five on the season and seven points
-Point lowered his GAA to 2.49 and raised his save percentage to .912 in his second win of the season
-Corkey also continued his impressive blocking this season with four blocked shots to give him 68, tied with St. Lawrence's Eric Sweetman for the most in ECAC Hockey
-Colgate picked up its first win against Brown since Feb. 28, 2015 and played its first game in Hamilton against the Bears since Nov. 21, 2014.
-The Raiders last five victories have all came by one goal, with the Raiders going 5-5-5 in 15 one-goal games
-Colgate also improved to 5-2-4 this season when scoring the first goal of the game
 
FACTS AND FIGURES
-Colgate outshot Brown 27-21, including 8-2 in the first period
-Neither team scored a power play goal with each team going 0 for 4
-The Raiders also won the faceoff battle, 36-31, behind Panowyk's 13 faceoff wins
 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Don Vaughan
"It was a hard fought win tonight and getting wins in our league is never easy. We went out there and battled. I hope we can get a similar result tomorrow afternoon."
 
GATE GRAB BAG
-Attendance at Saturday night's game was 1,901

UP NEXT
The Raiders return to the ice for a rare Sunday afternoon game as they host the Yale Bulldogs at Class of 1965 Arena with puck drop set for 3 p.m. It will be Colgate's first Sunday game this season and third in the past two seasons.