Box Score

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Jordan Kary had a goal and an assist, but the Cornell men's hockey team dropped a 3-2 contest to Brown on Saturday night at Lynah Rink. Joe Devin also scored for Cornell in the loss as the Big Red slips to 2-6 overall and 2-4 in ECAC Hockey action. Brown improved to 3-2-1 overall and 2-1-1 in league play with the victory.

Braden Birch, Mike Devin and Kirill Gotovets each added an assist for the Big Red on the night, while freshman goaltender Andy Iles made 16 saves in the loss. Cornell finished the night 1-for-5 on the power play, while killing off all three of Brown's man-advantage opportunities.

For Brown, Jesse Fratkin had a goal and an assist while Jarred Smith picked up a pair of assists. Matt Wahl and Harry Zolnierczyk both scored a goal to aid the Bears cause. Mike Clemente stopped 20 of 22 shots on the night for the victory, his second of the year.

Brown took the lead in the first period when Wahl followed up on a shot from Fratkin that went wide of the net, but caromed off to the weak side, where Wahl buried a shot past Iles as Brown lead, 1-0, after one period. In the second, Zolnierczyk made the score 2-0 in favor of the Bears, intercepting a pass and skating in alone on Iles, beating the freshman netminder on the breakaway at the 2:50 mark of the period.

Cornell got one goal back four and a half minutes later. With the Big Red having an open net on a delayed penalty call against the Bears, Braden Birch sent a shot toward the net that Kary redirected around Clemente and inside the near post, cutting the deficit in half.

In the third, Fratkin scored the eventual game-winner, slipping a shot past Iles at the 9:38 mark of the period to put Cornell in a 3-1 hole. The Big Red did pull back to within one when Devin scored his goal at the 19:02 mark of the third period, tipping home a shot from Kirill Gotovets, but Cornell could not find the tying goal before time expired.

The Big Red returns to action in a non-league game on Saturday, taking on Colgate in a special 7:30 p.m. contest at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., the home of the NHL's New Jersey Devils. Tickets for that game are available through the Cornell Athletic Ticket Office, Ticketmaster and the Prudential Center Box Office.