Senior Nick Tremblay (Candiac, QUE) tallied a career-high four points on a goal and three assists to highlight an outstanding effort by the Clarkson University Hockey team in the Golden Knights’ 4-3 victory over archrival St. Lawrence before the fourth largest crowd ever at Cheel Arena of 3,899 on Saturday night.

The Knights dominated St. Lawrence by out-shooting the Saints 50-13, but needed a pair of third-period goals to overtake their North Country neighbor. Trailing 3-2 after two periods, Clarkson converted two of its 14 chances in the final 20 minutes to earn the victory and gained the ECAC Hockey regular-season series sweep of the Saints for the second consecutive year.

Tremblay scored his 11th goal of the season to tie the game at 6:12. Sophomore Ben Sexton (Kanata, ONT) set up the play when he intercepted a St. Lawrence pass at the blueline and fed Tremblay, who ripped a shot from the right circle for the power-play tally.

At 10:50, freshman Patrick Marsh (Oakville, ONT) came through with the game-winner when he converted a pass from Sexton at the side of the net for his second collegiate goal. Tremblay also set up the deciding goal with his third assist of the night.

Clarkson was all over St. Lawrence (8-13-3, 4-7-1) in the opening period, outshooting the Saints 22-2, but had to settle for a 1-1 tie after the first. The Knights scored just once on several Grade A opportunities when senior Louke Oakley (Whitby, ONT) jammed in a loose puck during a scrum at the top of the crease at 9:28 for his 11th goal of the season. Tremblay and sophomore defenseman Alex Boak (Norwood, NY) earned assists.

St. Lawrence, however, was able to come away even on the scoreboard with a power-play goal late in the stanza. Greg Carey tallied with four seconds left in an abbreviated Saints’ man-advantage, firing in a blast from the top of the slot that found its way past screened Clarkson senior goaltender Paul Karpowich (Thunder Bay, ONT) at 18:22.

The Knights continued to dominate in the second frame with a 14-to-8 shot advantage, but it was St. Lawrence that controlled the scoreboard after 40 minutes with a 3-2 lead.

Just 1:51 into the period and with 27 seconds left in a power play a shot by the Saints’ Jacob Drewiske deflected off a Clarkson defenseman in front and past Karpowich to put the visitors in the lead, 2-1.

The Knights answered back at 5:38 when freshman defenseman James Howden (Edgeley, SASK) sent in a shot from the top of left circle that found its way through traffic for his first collegiate goal. Tremblay and senior Julien Cayer (Longueuil, QUE) assisted.

St. Lawrence skated away with the lead after two periods when Chris Martin lifted a wrap-around shot up top over Karpowich at 16:12 to make it 3-2 St. Lawrence.

Karpowich finished with 13 saves while the Saints’ Matt Weninger had a career night with 46 stops. Clarkson was 1-of-2 on the power play while St. Lawrence was 2-of-4 with the man-advantage.

Clarkson, which improves its record to 11-10-5 overall, moves into a tie for fourth place in the ECAC Hockey standings with a 5-4-3 league mark. The Knights play at Capital District rivals Union and Rensselaer this coming weekend.