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Knights men's hockey struggles continue with loss at Harvard

Posted 2/18/18

A late season funk continues for the Clarkson University Hockey team, which fell to Harvard 5-2 at Bright-Landry Hockey Center in Cambridge, MA on Saturday in the Golden Knights' final road game of …

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Knights men's hockey struggles continue with loss at Harvard

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A late season funk continues for the Clarkson University Hockey team, which fell to Harvard 5-2 at Bright-Landry Hockey Center in Cambridge, MA on Saturday in the Golden Knights' final road game of the year.

Clarkson, which lost 3-2 at Dartmouth on Friday, is winless in its last seven games (0-4-3) and is just 1-5-4 since mid-January. Prior to the recent skid, the Green and Gold had strung together 14 consecutive victories before tying Harvard 6-6 on January 19.

Ranked 7th in the national polls entering the weekend, the Golden Knights stand at 19-8-5 overall. Clarkson, which has locked up a top-four spot in the ECAC Hockey standings and a first-round bye in the upcoming conference playoffs, is in third place with an 11-5-4 league mark. The Knights host Princeton and Quinnipiac next weekend at Cheel Arena in the final regular-season weekend.

Sophomore center Nico Sturm (Augsburg, Germany) provided all the offense for the Green and Gold against Harvard (13-10-4, 10-7-3), scoring both goals for his second career multiple-goal outing. Both goals came on the power-play.

Once again Clarkson held the advantage in shots, with a 28-23 margin over the Crimson, but Harvard made the most of its opportunities to gain its third straight win.

Freshman Nicholas Latinovich (Maple, ONT) earned his second career start in the Clarkson goal, but played only the first 13 minutes after allowing two goals on five shots.

The Crimson's Ty Pelton-Byce opened the scoring at 4:56, followed by John Marino's goal at 13:41.

Sophomore Jake Kielly (Owen Sound, ONT) came in after Harvard's second goal and finished with 15 saves on 17 shots.

Sturm put Clarkson on the scoreboard just 47 seconds into the middle frame, finishing off assists from classmate Sheldon Rempal (Calgary, ALB) and freshman Jack Jacome (Caledon, ONT).

The Crimson answered back at 4:41 with a power-play marker from Reilly Walsh to take a 3-1 lead.

Clarkson struck again early in the third as Sturm scored his second of the night, tapping in a pass from sophomore assistant captain Devin Brosseau (St. Lambert, QUE) at the backdoor for another power-play tally and his 12th goal of the season at 2:46 to make it a one-goal game. Rempal also picked up his second assist of the game.

Harvard, however, knocked in its second power-play goal of the game with Jack Badini connecting at 13:52 to make it 4-2.

The Crimson sealed the deal with Benjamin Solin's empty-net goal at 17:58.