Greg Carey continued his offensive success against Yale and Matt Weninger turned in another solid start in goal, but the Saints had to settle for a 3-3 tie in their return to ECAC play at Appleton Arena Saturday night.

The Saints, now 8-11-3 overall and 4-5-1 in league play snapped a three-game league winless streak in their return to ECAC play after a five week layoff while Yale is now 8-6-2 overall and 5-3-1 in the ECAC. The Saints last played an ECAC game against Clarkson on Dec. 6 and continued a streak of home success against the Bulldogs, the tie giving them a 3-0-1 record against Yale at Appleton in the last four seasons.

Carey had his second two-goal game of the season and Weninger made 34 saves, four of them in the overtime to help the Saints come away with the point. Carey now has four goals and three assists in six career games against Yale.

"Those were two great goals by Greg," said Saint associate head coach Mike Hurlbut. "The first one was a rocket under the crossbar and the second one, he just stayed with the play after getting his first one blocked and put another good shot on the net. We'll take the point, but I think both teams came away thinking they should have won it. It was a good, hard-working effort by both teams."

St. Lawrence took the early lead in the game when junior center Kyle Flanagan made a good play along the boards to keep the puck in the offensive zone, then passed it back to the center slot to senior defenseman Pete Child, who scored his first of the year with a shot just inside the left post at 1:38. Yale came back to tie it with just 1.6 seconds to go in the period as Brian O'Neill made a nifty goal mouth pass to junior Andrew Miller, who tucked his fourth of the season into the open net.

Carey put the Saints back in front with a power play goal 5:14 into the second, taking a pass from defenseman George Hughes and snapping a shot under the crossbar. Carey then made it a 3-1 game when he picked up his own rebound off a blocked shot and wristed a shot past the blocker of Yale goalie Jeff Malcolm at 12:08. Yale cut it to a 3-2 Saint lead with a power play goal by defenseman Kenny Peel, who put his third of the year just under the crossbar from the right faceoff circle at 17:35.

Yale tied it up at 15:41 of the third period when sophomore center Clinton Bourbonais worked his way free in front deep in the Saint zone and snapped a shot which hit Weninger in the shoulder and flopped into the net for Bourbonais' fourth of the season.

Both teams had chances to win it in regulation as Hughes missed just wide on a gaping net on a power play in the final two minutes and Bourbonais had a shot roll off the end of his stick and slide past the post when he was all alone in front with 30 seconds left. Neither team scored in the overtime, although Yale had a 4-1 edge in shots on goal in the extra period.

Malcolm finished with 27 saves for Yale as the Elis had a 37-30 edge in shots with 11 of the 30 shots coming on seven power play chances.

The Saints will host Brown at 4 p.m. Sunday to complete the weekend series.