Seifarth Shines as Men's Hockey Downs Colgate, 3-2Seifarth Shines as Men's Hockey Downs Colgate, 3-2
Steven Walter

Seifarth Shines as Men's Hockey Downs Colgate, 3-2

Box Score

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Junior goaltender John Seifarth (Pittsburgh, Pa.) stood tall between the pipes in his first NCAA Division I start leading Penn State to a 3-2 victory over Colgate in non-conference action on Tuesday evening inside Pegula Ice Arena. Seifarth was part of the Penn State Ice Lions ACHA club hockey squad last season.

Penn State snaps a six-game skid improving to 5-7-0 on the year with the victory while the Raiders drop to 7-6-2 with the loss.

HOW IT HAPPENED

  • Penn State opened the scoring as sophomore Aiden Fink (Calgary, Alberta) drove the net and classmate Dane Dowiak (Pittsburgh, Pa.) sent a no-look, one-touch, backhanded pass from behind the net right on his tape and Fink didn’t miss from point-blank range for the 1-0 edge at 4:41 of the first period.
  • The Nittany Lions extended the lead midway through the first frame with a powerplay tally as sophomore Matt DiMarsico (Wexford, Pa.) redirected a point shot in the low slot by graduate student Jimmy Dowd Jr. (Point Pleasant Beach, N.J.) for the 2-0 edge at the 9:37 mark.
  • Colgate cut the deficit in half late in the opening stanza as Brett Chorske’s initial chance was blocked, but fell right on the stick of Alex DiPaolo at the near post and he had a yawning net for the 2-1 score at 18:06 of the period.
  • Penn State regained the two-goal edge late in the middle period as freshman Cade Christenson (Edmonton, Alberta) sprung classmate Charlie Cerrato (Fallston, Md.) on a breakaway and he beat Raider net-minder Andrew Takacs bar-down past the blocker for the 3-1 score at the 14:02 mark.
  • Colgate cut the deficit to a single goal midway through the third period as Daniel Panetta sent the puck on net from the high slot that popped off the blocker of Seifarth and snuck over the line for the 3-2 score at the 11:37 mark.
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GOALTENDING

Seifarth earns his first collegiate victory moving to 1-0-0 on the year following a career-best 25 saves while his counterpart, Takacs, falls to 6-3-1 after stopping 39 shots in the loss.

NOTES

  • Penn State held the commanding 42-27 edge in shots on goal, its highest shot total of the season, while going 1-for-3 on the man-advantage and a perfect 2-for-2 on the penalty kill. The Nittany Lions have yet to surrender a man-advantage tally in its six non-conference games this season.
  • Penn State moves to 5-1-0 in non-conference play this season and are now 50-7-1 in regular season non-conference games since the start of the 2018-19 season including a 23-3-0 mark over the past two-plus seasons.
  • This marks the seventh game in 12 games this season decided by one goal as the Nittany Lions are now 3-4-0 in such games.
  • Fink extends his goal streak to five games tying his career-long from a season ago.
  • With his first period assist, Dowd Jr. inches closer to history as he sits just four assists shy of Cole Hults’ record for a defenseman of 61.
  • With one goal and one assist, Cerrato secures his fifth multi-point effort of the season.
  • Christenson had a pair of assists on the night registering the first multi-point game of his collegiate career.
  • Dowiak has now tied his career-best three-game point streak following his first period assist while Christenson and freshman JJ Wiebusch (Verona, Wis.) each extend their point streaks to three games.
  • Penn State again controlled the dot winning 61 percent (36-for-59) of the draws in the game paced by Dowiak who went 10-for-14 (71.4 percent) and freshman Charlie Cerrato who was 9-for-13 (64.3 percent).

NEXT UP

  • Both teams return to Pegula Ice Arena in less than 24 hours to conclude the series with a 4:30 p.m. puck drop on Wednesday evening.
  • Tickets are still available HERE.

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