Alaska-Fairbanks’ Peyton Platter passes the puck throughout Friday’s Adirondack Winter Invitational recreation in opposition to St. Lawrence.
(Enterprise picture — Parker O’Brien)
LAKE PLACID — The University of Alaska-Fairbanks’ Rylen Roersma scored with lower than three minutes remaining within the third interval Saturday on the Olympic Center, securing a 3-2 victory over the Clarkson Golden Knights and claiming the third annual Adirondack Invitational title.
The Nanooks, which had traveled greater than 4,000 miles to get to this village, swept the invite after defeating the St. Lawrence Saints 2-0 on Friday. The two-game effort helped enhance Fairbanks’ general document to 4-8-1.
While the event is set based mostly on a degree system — quite than a single-elimination event — Saturday’s contest was primarily a championship recreation as each the Nanooks and Golden Knights earned wins over their opponents throughout Friday’s recreation. Clarkson (5-11-0 general) defeated the defending event champion, University of Massachusetts Lowell River Hawks, 2-0 on Friday.
Alaska-Fairbanks acquired off to a fast begin Saturday, when Michael Citara netted a objective lower than three minutes into the primary interval, following assists from Peyton Platter and Noah Barlage. However, the Golden Knights responded with a objective simply 4 minutes later, when Matthew Mayich despatched a shot over the shoulder of the Nanooks’ goalie, Lassi Lehti.
Right earlier than the tip of the primary interval, Clarkson claimed a 2-1 lead as Jace Letourneau redirected the puck previous Lehti. Fairbanks evened the sport within the second interval when Citara buried his second objective of the competition.
UMass Lowell’s Luke Shipley passes the puck throughout Friday’s Adirondack Winter Invitational recreation in opposition to Clarkson.
(Enterprise picture — Parker O’Brien)
With the sport tied 2-2, Roersma linked on a rebound to win the title. The Nanooks joined Arizona State (2023) and UMass Lowell (2024) because the third workforce to win this event championship.
Clarkson completed with a 23-21 benefit in pictures, whereas its goalie, Shane Soderwall, had 18 saves. Fairbanks’ Lehti recorded 21 stops.
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UMass Lowell 7, St. Lawrence 3
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In the opposite contest on Saturday, UMass Lowell freshman Dalyn Wakely netted a hat trick because the River Hawks earned a 7-3 victory in opposition to St. Lawrence.
Dillan Bentley added two targets for the River Hawks, which improved to 6-8-0 general, whereas Jay Ahearn and Chris Delaney additionally scored. Sophomore Libor Nemec chipped in with three assists for UMass Lowell.
The River Hawks jumped out to a 2-0 lead within the opening interval, earlier than the Saints linked on three straight targets to shut out the interval. St. Lawrence’s Cayden Casey, Rasmus Svartstrom and Sam Frandina every discovered the again of the web as soon as throughout that stretch.
However, UMass Lowell scored 5 straight to shut out the competition — two within the second interval and three within the third.
The River Hawks completed with a 47-12 benefit in pictures because the workforce’s goalie, Austin Elliott, had 9 saves. The Saints’ netminder, Colin Winn, recorded 40 stops. St. Lawrence drops to 2-13-1 general.