Three Different Goal Scorers Pace Bobcats to Semifinal Win

Friday, March 18

Lake Placid, NY / Herb Brooks Arena (1980 Rink)

4:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

31-5-3, 18-4-1

Colgate

18-18-4, 9-10-4

Colgate

Quinnipiac

Joey Cipollone Celebrates ECAC Semifinal Goal in Lake Placid

Photo by: Rob Rasmussen / P8Photos.com

Three Different Goal Scorers Pace Bobcats to Semifinal Win

3/18/2022 6:14:00 PM | Men's Ice Hockey

Box Score

Team Advances to Second Straight ECAC Championship Game

By: QU Athletic Communications

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. – Quinnipiac men's ice hockey jumped out to a two-goal first period lead in Friday's ECAC Hockey Semifinal matchup and closed out a 3-1 victory over the fifth-seeded Colgate Raiders to advance to Saturday's championship game.

Joey Cipollone opened the scoring with his third power play goal in his last six games as he took a cross-crease feed from Oliver Chau and buried it with 9:23 gone in the first period.

Later in the period, defenseman Brendan Less chipped a puck off the boards in the defensive zone to a streaking TJ Friedmann who entered the Colgate end and fed a driving Michael Lombardi. Lombardi found space in the slot and redirected the puck into the net for what would turn out to be the game-winning goal.

Colgate scored the only goal in the second period as the Raiders turned a blocked shot into a 2-on-1 and Griffin Lunn scored on the rebound of a Yaniv Perets save on the initial shot.

After nearly ten minutes of a tense final frame, captain Wyatt Bongiovanni entered the zone with pace and fired a lazer beam past Colgate goaltender Mitch Benson to extend the Bobcats lead to 3-1. Ethan de Jong assisted on the goal to earn his 100th career point, becoming the 42nd Quinnipiac player to acheive the milestone.
SCORE #1 Quinnipiac 3, #5 Colgate 1 RECORDS #6/6 Quinnipiac (31-5-3) | Colgate (18-18-4, 9-10-4) LOCATION Herb Brooks Arena | Lake Placid, N.Y.
SCORING SUMMARY Period 1 - 9:23 - QU 1, SLU 0 - Joey Cipollone (PPG, 10), assisted by Oliver Chau and Michael Lombardi
Period 1 - 16:43 - QU 2, SLU 0 - Michael Lombardi (GWG, 13), assisted by TJ Friedmann and Brendan Less
Period 2 - 4:13 - QU 2, SLU 1 - Griffin Lunn (12), assisted by Ben Raymond
Period 3 - 9:40 - QU 3, SLU 1 - Wyatt Bongiovanni (15), assisted by Ethan de Jong and Griffin Mendel

NOTES

Quinnipiac advances to the ECAC Hockey Championship game for the second-straight season and fourth time since 2007.
The Bobcats out shot Colgae 33-26 in the game and attempted 19 more shots than the Raiders on the afternoon.
Cipollone's power play goal was the only opportunity that Quinnipiac had on the man advantage in the game as the Bobcats were 1-for-1. The junior has tallied four points in six games since 2/22/22.
Lombardi recorded his second multi-point game against Colgate this season and continued a hot stretch of six points in four games. The senior has career-highs with 13 goals, 13 assists, and 26 points.
Quinnipiac is one win shy of tying a program record for single season wins (32). The record was set during the 2015-16 season that resulted in a Whitelaw Cup and a trip to the National Championship game.
Yaniv Perets made 25 saves in his 21st win of the season. The victory moves him into a tie for fifth place in Quinnipiac's single-season record book.

NEXT UP
Quinnipiac advances to the ECAC Hockey Championship game in Lake Placid tomorrow at 7:30 PM. The Bobcats will face the winner of tonight's semifinal contest between #2 Clarkson and #3 Harvard.

Fans in Lake Placid are invited to attend Quinnipiac's pregame event at Sol Del Oro, 2617 Main St., Lake Placid, NY 12946 from 5-7 PM.