Box Score HAMILTON, N.Y. – Marshall Terres fired a rocket from 10 yards out on the left side of the crease and found net scoring his third goal of the game 2:29 into overtime to lead Colgate to a 9-8 victory over 17^th ranked and Patriot League leading Lehigh University.
 
The overtime period followed a wild fourth quarter that saw Colgate break a 5-all tie at the end of three with a pair of Brian Minicus goals at 13:46 and 9:10. Lehigh battled back with a pair of its own goals to tie the game at 7-7 with 3:21 remaining in regulation. Terres' second score of the game put the Raiders back on top 8-7 with only 39 ticks remaining, but 20 seconds later Lehigh answered to send the game to the extra period.
 
Lehigh opened the scoring early in the first quarter but Colgate scored the next two goals with Alex Pistorius scoring from the top middle off a Minicus helper and Ben Trumble giving the Raiders the lead on an unassisted goal at 6:25. Lehigh tallied the next two goals for a 3-2 advantage. A string of three Raider scores gave Colgate a 5-3 first quarter lead. First Jack Turner scored of a Minicus assist. Minicus then notched an unassisted tally, and Terres got the first score of his first career hat trick at the buzzer to give the Raiders a 5-3 advantage.
 
The second and third periods were defensive clinics with Lehigh scoring the only goal of each quarter.
 
Minicus' three goals gave him his seventh three goal or more effort in 11 games in 2022. The hat trick for Terres was the first of his career.
 
Matt LaCombe was stellar in net for the Raiders making 15 stops including a huge save at the end of the third quarter to keep the game tied at five. Ryan Decker tallied two caused turnovers and a pair of ground balls, while Thor Adamec caused three Lehigh miscues and added a ground ball of his own.

FROM THE SOURCE:
Head Coach Matt Karweck

"If you watched our season, we've had five close games, within one or two goals. In the course of a year, that's a lot of one-goal games not to win. We did not win those, but this one we did. It's such a massive win because we need to win to get into the Patriot League Tournament. To do it in a 1-goal fashion, we finally got over that hump. We finally got over the edge. We were right there for four games, and we finally had a chance to finish the game and close it out. That to me was a special moment. 

"We finally put together all the components of our game — offense, defense, riding and clearing, our goalie was excellent, our face-off guys were excellent. We finally put together a complete game."

UP NEXT
 Colgate (3-8, 2-4 Patriot) will celebrate Senior Day and host Loyola University Saturday, April 23, for a 12:00PM Patriot League contest face off.